PLATE 382. 
SENECIO DELTOIDEUS, Less. (Fl. Cap. Vol IIL, p. 403.) 
Natural Order, Composita. 
A much branched slender climber, bearing corymbs of yellow flowers. Stem 
and branches angular or ribbed, green, wide climbing, glabrous. Leaves alter- 
nate, petiolate, stipulate, varying much both in shape and size on the same plant, 
the Jarger ones triangular and hastate-acuminate, the medium and smaller ones, 
rounded or tapering to the petiole, neither hastate nor cordate ; margins of all 
unequally serrate; glabrous; 1 to 3 inches long, 4 to 2 inches wide; petiole up to 
1 inch long. Stipules when present leaf-like, ear shaped, serrate. Inflorescence 
corymbose, the corymbs loosely many headed, heads discoid, flowers yellow. In- 
volucre of 5 to 7 oblong, acute scales, about 12 line long; calycled at base by 
about 5 short, narrow scales. Corolla tubular, inflated at apex. Stamens 5, 
anther cells acute at base, connective produced at apex ; pappus of many slender, 
straight rough bristles. Style elongate, the arms recurved, truncate and minutely 
bristly at apex. Achenes linear, striate, hispid. 
Habitat - Natau: Inanda, 1800 feet alt, Wood, 156; without precise locality, 
Gerrard, 329; near Durban, August, Wood; also in Cape Colony. 
A slender wide climbing plant usually found at edges of bush, where its 
trusses of yellow flowers are very conspicuous. It is plentiful in the coast dis- 
tricts and occurs at more than 2,000 feet above sea level. I cannot learn that the 
natives have any distinct name for it, nor is it used in any way so far as known 
to us. 
Fig. 1, flower head; 2, involucre opened; 3, portion of involucre showing 
calycle; 4, floret; 5, three stamens; 6, style and stigmas; 7,achene; all enlarged. 
