PLATE 382. 
Senecio deltoideus, Less. (Fl. Cap. Vol III., p. 403.) 
Natural Order, Composite. 
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 larger ones triangular and hastate-acuminate, the medium and smaller ones, 
rounded or tapering to the petiole, neither hastate noi" cordate ; margins of all 
unequally serrate ; glabrous ; 1 to 3 inches long, ^ 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 If 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 arras recurved, truncate and minutely 
bristly at apex. Achenes linear, striate, hispid. 
Habitat ■ Natal : 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. 
