iSenecio] lxxi. composite. 601 



10. S. Brittenianus Hiern, sp. n. 



A herb, 3-| ft. high or more ; stems suffruticose below, floccose or 

 obsoletely white-cottony above ; branches striate, lax ; leaves 

 narrowly ellipsoidal or lanceolate-oblong, narrowed towards both 

 ends, acuminate or apiculate at the apex, often attenuate to the 

 sessile and somewhat auriculate base, herbaceous, toothed, more 

 or less cottony, especially beneath, with white often deciduous 

 silky hairs, "2 to 3 in. long by |- to f in. broad ; capitula cam- 

 panulate or at length hemispherical, homogamous, discoid, many- 

 fiowered, ^ in. long, on unequal bracteolate rather slender pedicels 

 ranging up to about ^ in. long, arranged in dense terminal 

 corymbose somewhat cottony cymes 3 to 4 in. in diameter ; in- 

 volucral bracts about 20, sublinear, acute, about ^ in. long, 

 puberulous on the back, with scarious lateral margins and fuscous 

 tips ; those of the calyculus several, much smaller, similar ; 

 ■flowers yellow ; corolla about ^ in. long, tubular, rather abruptly 

 dilated near the middle upwards, the limb short, 5-cleft ; anthers 

 appendaged and exserted at the apex, exappendiculate at the 

 base ; style-branches circinate, truncate at the apex, just exserted ; 

 receptacle areolate, convex in fruit, rather narrow, naked; 

 achenes about yV in. long, subcylindrical, more or less ribbed and 

 setulose ; pappus copious, white, setose, longer than the achene ; 

 the setse barbellate, very slender. 



HuiLLA.— At the borders of fields near MumpuUa ; fl. and fr. Oct. 



1859. No. 3679. On a clay soil near the LopoUo stream ; fl. Feb. 



1860. No. 3680. 



This species has very much the general appearance of S. myrio- 

 cephalus, but differs by its discoid flower-heads, more numerous 

 involucral scales, etc. 



11. S. lopollensis Hiern, sp. n. 



A somewhat hoary herb, 4 to 8 in. high ; root wiry, branched, 

 creeping and descending, apparently perennial ; stems numerous, 

 slender, procumbent or ascending, short or low, pubescent- 

 tomentose or puberulous with whitish hairs, leafy ; leaves alter- 

 nate, mostly crowded, elliptical or obovate, rounded or obtusely 

 pointed at the apex, narrowed towards the sessile or shortly 

 petiolate exauriculate base, firmly herbaceous, grey at least 

 beneath, clothed on both faces more or less with whitish crisp or 

 curly hairs, entire or repand, with somewhat thickened cartila- 

 ginous margins, ^ *° T i^- ^^^S ^J t *'° f ^^- bi'oad ; peduncles 

 terminal, slender, erect, scapelike, glabrescent above, puberulous 

 below, one-headed, 3|- to 7 in. long, without bracts or occasionally 

 with a small one about the middle ; capitula homogamous, discoid, 

 subcampanulate, rather dilated at the apex, ecalyculate, erect, 

 4 to f in. long, -|- to i in. thick at the apex of the involucre ; 

 involucral scales uniseriate, about 8, linear-oblong, pointed at the 

 apex, erect, slightly puberulous on the back near the apex, 

 obscured marked with parallel nerves, scarious on the margins ; 

 flowers purple, numerous, rather exceeding the involucre, appa- 



