Plate 28. 



SENECIO STAPELIAEFORMIS. 



Transvaal. 



Compositae. Tribe Senecionidbae. 

 Senecio, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 446. 



Senecio stapeliaeformis, Phill. sp. nov. 



Gaudex 7-25 cm. altus, carnosus, 4-7-angulosus. Folia 2-5 mm. longa, erecta, 

 subulata, emarcida. Pedunculus 2 cm. longus, simplex, monocephalus, 

 teres, glaber. Gapitulum discoideum, coccineum. Bractae involucri, 

 1*5 cm. longae, 1 mm. latae, lineares, apice obtusae ciliataeque. Recepta- 

 culum 3 mm. latum, planum. Gorallae tubus 2 cm. longus, cylindricus, 

 glaber ; lobi 3 5 mm. longi, -75 mm. lati, lineares, apice obtusi. Stamina 

 inclusa; filamenta 6 mm. longa; antherae 2-5 mm. longae, lineares, 

 apice appendice lineare instructae. Ovarium 2*5 mm. longum, glabrum ; 

 stylus 2 mm. longus, glaber, lobis 4 mm. longis linearibus. Pappus 

 16 cm. longus. 



Transvaal : Lydenburg. Garl Jeppe in National Herbarium, 1272. Pruizen, 

 Potgeiters Eust, under bushes, Burtt Davy, 2203. 



The specimens from which our figure was made were 

 collected by Mr. Carl Jeppe in the Lydenburg District, 

 Transvaal, and flowered in the Garden of the Division of 

 Botany, Pretoria, in September, 1919. 



It is closely allied to Senecio pendula, Sch. Bip., a native 

 of Somaliland and Arabia, but differs in the erect, angled 

 stems. 



The stems resemble those of a Stapelia to such an extent 

 that it was thought to be a Stapelia when received, and was 

 planted out in the Stapelia collection. This species will make 

 a very welcome addition to the South African rockeries. 



Desceiption : — Stems 7-25 cm. long, simple, more rarely 

 branched, thick and fleshy, 4-7-angled, with the angles com- 

 pressed and toothed, each tooth tipped with an erect, slender, 

 awl-like leaf 2-5 mm. long, withering and becoming hardened. 

 Peduncle often solitary and terminal, sometimes there is also 

 an axilliary one on the stem, but then only the uppermost 

 appears to develop; 2 cm. long, bearing one flower-head, 



