Refugium Botanicum. | [April, 1868. 
Deets 
Natural Order ComposiITz. 
Sub-order TuBULIFLOR&. 
Tribe SENECIONE. 
Genus Kierra, L. 
K. crassuL&FOLIA (D.C. Prodr. vi. p. 336). Caule suffruticoso glabro 
carnoso, foliis paulo supra collum confertis, semiteretibus acutius- 
culis integerrimis, ramo florido annuo erecto nudo apice bifido aut 
subdichotomo, pedicellis elongatis squamellosis unicephalis, capi- 
tulis hemisphericis discoideis homogamis, involucro circa 12-phyllo 
disco vix breviore, acheniis adpresse puberis. — Harv. and Sond. 
Fl. Cap. iii. p. 317. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Root fruticose, perennial, the stems dying down to it in the 
winter, the portion that bears the leaves three or four inches 
high, four or five lines thick, fleshy, naked. Leaves subcylin- 
drical, narrowed to a point, two to three inches long, nearly 
a quarter of an inch thick, fleshy, naked, crowded, sessile, quite 
entire. Peduncle six to eight inches high, quite naked. Heads 
three to six, subcorymbose, solitary, on arcuate slender pedicels, 
_two to three inches long, with a small lanceolate bract at the 
base, and two or three others. Phyllaries about 12, fleshy, 
naked, linear-oblong, green and thickened in the middle, mem- 
branous towards the edge. Heads an inch across, the flowers 
bright yellow, the outer row ligulate, female, the middle ones 
about 30, tubular, perfect. Receptacle convex. Achenes pubescent. 
Pappus white. 
The genus Kleinia differs from Senecio only in having a tip to 
the branches of the style in the discoid flowers. In Senecio these 
are truncate.—J. G. B. 
I am indebted to the Royal Gardens at Kew for this interesting 
plant. It produces its blossoms rather freely when grown in a 
light and airy greenhouse. It requires but little moisture during 
the winter season, and should be potted in sandy peat and loam. 
—W,W.S. 
