

Refugium Botanicum. ] (June, 1873. 
TAB. 343. 
Natural Order ComposIr”. 
Sub-order SENECIONIDE. 
Genus Kiem, Linn. 
K. neruronia (Haworth, Pl. Suce. 312). Frutex orgyalis erecta 
elaberrima dichotomiter ramosa, ramulis crassis teretibus 
carnosis albo-pruinosis cicatricosis, foliis prope apicem ramu- 
lorum sublaxe spiraliter dispositis oblanceolatis integerrimis 
carnosis pallide viridibus subpetiolatis, pedunculis ex apice 
ramulorum brevibus pluribus  strictis, capitulis 6—8-floris 
corymbosis, involucri cylindrici squamis 5 coriaceis ligulatis 
valyatis paucis minutis basalibus, acheniis glaberrimis, pappo 
longissimo. — DC. Prodr. vi. 888.  Cacalia Kleinia, Linn. Sp. 
Plant. 1168; DC. Plant. Grass. t. 12. Senecio Kleinia, Schultz, 
Bip. Phyt. Can. it. 821. 
A native of the Canaries. 
Stem shrubby, dichotomously branched from the very base, 
reaching the height of man or more. Branches terete, the main 
ones two to three inches in diameter, marked with the round or 
oblong scars of the fallen leaves; the ultimate branchlets rather 
fleshy, very glaucous, half an inch thick. Leaves thirty to forty, 
placed spirally upon the top three or four inches of the branches, 
oblanceolate, entire, fleshy, pale green, subacute, four to eight 
inches long, half to three-fourths of an inch broad above the 
middle, subacute, narrowed gradually downwards into a sort of 
petiole, paler and subglaucous below, the veins immersed. 
Flowers in dense corymbs on short stiff peduncles, several of 
which issue from the tip of each pranch. Involucre cylindrical, 
half to five-eighths of an inch long, composed of five ligulate 
coriaceous scales, with a few minute ones external to these at the 
very base. Corolla three-fourths of an inch long, with a long 
slender tube, expanded at the apex into a shortly-toothed funnel- 
shaped limb. Achenes cylindrical, four to four and a half lines 
long, vertically ribbed, glabrous. Pappus five-eighths of an inch 
long, of very numerous subrigid slender white bristles easily 
breaking off at the base. 
Tan. 348.—1, disk-flower ; 2, ray-flower ; 3, stigmas; 4, bristle 
of pappus: all magnified.—J. G. B 
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