€02 Lxxi. COMPOSITE. [Senecio 



rently all fertile ; corolla dilated into a small hemisphere at the 

 base, shghtly and gradually widened upwards, shortly 5-cleft at 

 the apex, the lohes lanceolate ; anthers included in the corolla, 

 rather exceeding its tube, acute and appendaged at the apex, 

 obtuse and not appendaged at the base; style-branches about 

 equalling the anthers, short, truncate, stigmatose at the apex; 

 achenes (young) oblong, unequally ribbed, glabrous, -^ in. long, 

 with an oval cartilaginous ring at the apex from which arises the 

 white setose pappus ; the setae very slender, barbellate, erect, about 

 ^ in. long, subuniseriate, rather copious. 



HuiLLA. — In the more elevated pastures in Morro de Lopollo, in 

 the direction of Empalanca ; fl. Dec. 1859 and March 1860. No. 3574. 



12. S. uvens Hiern, sp. n. 



A glaucous-green very nearly glabrous somewhat fleshy decum- 

 bent herb, 7 to 9 in. high ; root creeping, branched ; stems 

 numerous, simple or nearly so, prostrate for half their length or 

 more, the flowering stems 13 to 17 in. long, secundly leafy 

 throughout the prostrate portion, the erect part scapelike 6 to 8 in. 

 long bracteate and nearly leafless; leaves alternate, crowded, 

 oblong, obtuse, sessile, obscurely vesicular-rugulose, uninerved, 

 1|- to 2 in. long by |- to ^ in. brOad; margins entire, narrowly 

 revolute ; capitula homogamous, discoid, broadly campanulate, 

 dilated around the apex, ^ to f in. long and broad, solitary, 

 terminal, erect ; bracts narrow, J to |^ in. long, the upper ones 

 successively smaller and less distant; involucre calyoulate with 

 a few scales similar to the uppermost bracts ; involucral scales 

 about 20, sublinear, uniseriate, inserted around the dilated recep- 

 tacle, f to f in. long, not quite glabrous on the back, pointed at 

 the apex with fuscous tips, the lateral margins scarious and over- 

 lapping; flowers numerous, yellow, about ^ in. long or rather 

 longer, all tubular, hermaphrodite ; corolla f to 4 in. long, shortly 

 5-lobed ; anthers included, obtuse and exappendiculate at both 

 ends ; style-branches about -^ in. long, narrow, puberulous- 

 stigmatose, terminated with very narrow exserted appendages; 

 achenes glabrous, lO-ribbed, narrowly ovoid-oblong, rather thicker 

 about the middle, ^ in. long, with a ring around the apex from 

 which arises the white copious setose pappus; the setse very 

 slender, ^ in. long, minutely setulose, numerous, subuniseriate ; 

 receptacle somewhat concave, ^ to |^ in. in diameter, naked. 



Htjilla. — In swampy places at the river Cacolovar, between 

 Ivantala and Quilengues ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860 ; also by the river at 

 Lopollo. No. 3670. 



13. S. multicorymbosus Klatt in Ann. Nat. Hist. Hofmus. 

 Wien, vii. p. 103 (1892) ; 0. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 32. 



GoLUNGO Alto.— A small tree, candelabriform, 10 to 12 ft. high ; 

 branches patent, curving upwards towards the apex and there bearing 

 fascicles of leaves and from their centre flowering panicles 1 to 2^ ft. 

 long ; flowers yellow, after the fashion of the genus. At the damp 

 outskirts of forests between Cambondo and N-delle, growing in 

 groups ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1854. No. 3689. 



