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Trimens Flora of Ceylon, Part V. 

 Text Book of plant diseases ; by Gr. Massee. 

 Agricultural Botany ; by J. Percival, F.L.S. 

 Glossary of Botanic terms ; by B. D. Jackson. 



In my annual report for 1899, I repeated the descriptions of 

 the third decade of new Natal Plants described by Mr. M. 8. 

 Evans and myself, and published at Home in the Journal of 

 Botany. It was intended to publish a fourth decade, but the 

 outbreak of war and press of other business prevented our ob- 

 taining specimens from the upper districts, we therefore deter- 

 mined to send what remained for publication in the Kew 

 Bulletin, and not to continue the decades at present. The fol- 

 lowing descriptions were therefore sent f >r publication some 

 months ago, and may possibly appear before this report is 

 published, but as few people in Natal see that publication, I 

 think it best to include them in this report especially as all the 

 other species have already appeared in former reports. 



New Natal Plants. 



Senecio tugelensis, Wood & Evans. Annual, herbaceous, 

 erect, stems simple, striate, glabrous. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 or ovate-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, lower ones tapering to a 

 winged amplexicaul petiole, upper ones amplexical, margins closely 

 serrate, glabrous, purple beneath. Heads solitary, or 2-3 on some- 

 what elongated glabrous peduncles bearing 2-3 scattered lanceolate 

 bracts, radiate, calycled with 6-7 linear bracteoles. Involucre 

 of 12 to 14 glabrous scales. Ray florets 12 to 14 ; 4-5 lined, 

 yellow ; disk florets 60 to 80. Achenes (unripe) glabrous. 



Habitat : Natal ; sources of Tugela, summit of Drakensberg, 

 near Mont aux Sources ; 10 to 11,000 feet altitude, March, 

 1898 ; M. S. Evans, No. 750. 



The whole plant 6 to 1 4 inches high ; leaves 1 to 2 inches 

 long, f to f inch wide ; Involucral. scales f inch long ; Heads 

 spreading to 1 inch diameter. 



Senecio seminivea, Wood & Evans. Suffruticose, ascending, 

 branches curved, glabrescent below, glandular hairy in upper 

 portion. Leaves crowded, alternate, sessile, half amplexicaul, 

 pinnate, 5-7 lobes on each side, young ones very densely white 

 woolly tomentose, mature one sub-glabrous, leaflets simple, 

 entire or 2-3 lobed, acute, margins entire Heads solitary, 

 radiate, pedunculate, calycled with 2-3 linear glandular brac- 

 teoles. Involucral scales 10-15, glandular hairy, with mem- 

 branous margins, 3-4 nerved in central portion. Disk florets 

 40 to 50 ; ray florets 10 to 12 ; 4-lined. Achenes glabrous. 



