SENECIO. 
449 
a few very short erect w. hairs in lines along the ribs reddish- 
brown (burnt sienna) truncate at each end. Pappus sessile 
pure w. softly pilose copious, 3-4 times the length of ach. ; 
epig. disk dilated w. conspicuous. 
The rapid diffusion in Mad. of the present pi., not introd. 
or at least observed in gardens at Funchal before 1845, is 
scarcely less remarkable than that of Eupatorium adenophorum 
Spr. above mentioned ; like which pi. also it is useless for all 
but ornamental purposes, such as covering unsightly banks or 
walls &c., for which its easy rapid densely matted growth and 
handsome ivy-like light gr. foliage qualify it admirably. It is 
a native of S. Africa and comes originally from the Cape! 
Sect. 4. Pericalles DC. Heads campanulate without calycle 
many-fld. Fits, ligulate, ligules not numerous Hat spread- 
ing. — St. shr. or herb, not climbing. L. simple pal- 
mately nerved cordate mostly angular tomentose be- 
neath and stalked ; petioles auriculato-stipulate. FI. 
conspicuously but not many-rayed mostly purple or w., 
rarely y. Ach. subpubescent. — Macaronesian (Can., 
Mad. and A^or.) species. 
5. S. auritus (Herit.). Erva de Coelho. 
St. shrubby erect, branches elongate flexuose tloccosely subto- 
mentose ; 1. stalked cordate roundish subangular, doubly calloso- 
crenate-toothed closely snowy-tomentose beneath, cobwebby- 
glabrescent above ; petioles tomentose leafy auricled at the base, 
auricles entire semicircular or broadly lunate snowy-tomentose 
beneath; cymes fork-branched ample lax smooth or cobwebby - 
glabrescent, ped. bracteolate ; inv. mostly naked smooth, scales 
12 ribbed or striate, ligules 5 broad and rather short. — Cineraria 
aurita Herit. Sert. Angl. 2G. t. 31; Ait. Hold. Ivew. (ed. 1) 
“ iii. 220;” BM. t. 178G; Pers. Syn. ii. 439; Poir. Suppl. ii. 
262 ; Spr. iii. 546 (not Andr.). Cin. populifolia Buch 194. 
no. 262 (not Ilerit., Lam., Vent.). Senecio maderensis DC. ! 
vi. 409., — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 3, cc ; PS. reg. 4, rrr. On rocks 
almost everywhere from 3000-5000 ft., llib. de S ta Luzia, R. 
Frio, da Metade, de S. Jorge, Curral das Freiras, &c. In PS. 
only on the summit of Pico Branco. May-July.' — A sparingly 
branched shr. with long straggling haunting or declining woody 
but somewhat slender and brittle flowering-branches 2-4 ft. 
long. Ii. 1-4 in. long f-3 in. broad on petioles about half as 
long, somewhat thin and flaccid, elegantly and regularly double- 
toothed, the ultimate teeth fine and delicate. Auricles very 
entire, sessile, the upper rather large, 4 or 5 lines broad, 2 or 3 
