PLATE 359. 
Kuernta rurcens, Hook (Bot. Mag. t. 5590). 
Natural Order, ComposiTak 
A fleshy plant with the aspect of a Kalanchoe and bearing large orange-red 
flower heads. Stems many from a creeping rootstock, erect, terete, glaucous, 12 
to 18 inches high, branched. Leaves crowded at base of stem, alternate, sessile, 
oblanceolate, either quite entire or distinctly and coarsely serrete in upper 
third, entire below, veins immersed; channelled on upper surface in lower 
portion glaucous ; lower ones up to 4 inches long by #? to 1} wide, smaller 
upwards, upper leaves linear-oblong, usually entire, lowest sometimes 
toothed. Flower heads solitary at the end of the branches and_ branch- 
lets. Heads, discoid, homogamous, all the florets tubular, 5-toothed. In- 
volucre of 8 to 10 scales which are unequal in breadth and concrete 
for nearly the whole of their length, the free portion triangular and acute. 
Receptacle flat, pitted. Pappus bristle shaped, in several rows, minutely barbed. 
Corolla tubular, 5-toothed, the teeth spreading. Anthers sagittate. Style-arms, 
revolute, tipped with a short cone. Achenes (unripe) cylindrical, quite glabrous. 
Habitat: Natat: Inanda, 1,800 ft., May, Wood, No. 556. Umlazi location, 
June, Wood. . 
Drawn and described from a plant growing in the Botanic Gardens, Durban, 
which was in flower in May and June. 
A very ornamental plant well worth a place in the garden. It bears its 
flowers profusely at the commencement of winter and remains in flower for some 
weeks, and even when out of flower it is by no means unsightly. It is found in 
the midlands of Natal, usually at the edge, or at the foot of stony precipices, but 
is rather rare. 
It was figured in the Botanical Magazine (t. 5590) under the name here given, 
since that time I understand that it has been removed to Senecio, but I have no 
record of its having been published under that name. 
Fig. 1, longitudinal section of involucre; 2, floret; 3, three stamens ; 4, 
style and stigma ; all enlarged. 
