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TA i!. 6488,
RENECIO SPEOTOSüS, DC.
Native of South Africa.
Nat. Ord. COMPOSITE.•Tribe SENECIONIDEVE.
Genus SENECIO, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL vol. ii. p. 4.16.)
SENECIO speciosus ; herbaceus, glanduloso-pubescens v. hirsutus, radico perennante,
f'oliis carnosulis radicalibus obovato-lanceolatis subacutis v. obtusis crenato-
serratis v. sinuato-dentatis, scapo elongato robusto flexuoso, foliis caulinis
oblongia inferioribus auriculato-5-amplexicaulibiis obtusis, superioribus scssi-
libus acutis, corymbis Iaxis, capitulis longe pedunculatis roseo-purpureis disco
saturatiore, involucro subcampanulato basi rotundato bracteis paucis dissitis
instructo, bracteis propriis anguste linearibus glanduloso-hirsutis, floribus radii
6-20, lígula lineari stricta patente ápice minute 3-dentata, acheniis sulcatis
puberulis.
S. speciosus, Willd. Sp. PL vol. iii. pars 3, p. 1991; DC. Prod. vi. 407; Load.
Bot. Cab. t. 1113 ; Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 41 ; Ait. Hort. Keic. vol. v. p. 43 ;
N. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1879, p. 615.
S. pseudo-china, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 291, non Linn.
S. concolor, Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 362, in part.
S. concolor vor. hispido-scabra, DC. I. c. 407.
Mr. N. Brown has,in the "Gardeners' Chronicle" quoted
above, cleared up the confused synonymy and history of
this beautiful plant. It was published first in 1806, by
Andrews, as the Linn•an S. pseudo-china, it being supposed
to have been introduced from that country, and to afford
the drug called " China-root," which, however, involved a
second mistake, as that drug is the produce of a Smilax.
It next appeared in "Willdenow's " Species Plantarum,"
the author of which, recognizing its difference from
Linnaeus' 8. pseudo-china, called it S. speciosus. In 1816
Ker figured it under Willdenow's name in the " Botanical
Register," observing that the native country of the plant
was not precisely determined, it being called Siberian by
some and Chinese by others. Ten years afterwards
Loddiges figured it in his " Botanical Cabinet," as intro-
duced by him from the Mauritius, adding that it is a
supposed native of China. In 1837 De Candolle, having
South African specimens of Ecklon and Drege before him,
APRIL 1ST, 1880.