Transvaal: Lydenburg. _Carl Jeppe in National Herbarium,_ 1272. Pruizen, Potgeiters Rust, under bushes, _Burtt Davy_, 2203.
The specimens from which our figure was made were collected by Mr. Carl Jeppe in the Lydenburg District, Transvaal, and flowered in the Garden of the Division of Botany, Pretoria, in September, 1919.
It is closely allied to _Senecio pendula_, Sch. Bip., a native of Somaliland and Arabia, but differs in the erect, angled stems.
The stems resemble those of a _Stapelia_ to such an extent that it was thought to be a _Stapelia_ when received, and was planted out in the _Stapelia_ collection. This species will make a very welcome addition to the South African rockeries.
DESCRIPTION:--_Stems_ 7-25 cm. long, simple, more rarely branched, thick and fleshy, 4-7-angled, with the angles compressed and toothed, each tooth tipped with an erect, slender, awl-like leaf 2-5 mm. long, withering and becoming hardened. _Peduncle_ often solitary and terminal, sometimes there is also an axilliary one on the stem, but then only the uppermost appears to develop; 2 cm. long, bearing one flower-head, terete, with 3-4 of the subulate leaves or bracts, glabrous. _Flower-head_ solitary, discoid, scarlet-red. _Involucral-scales_ in a single row of 10-12, more or less concrete, 1·5 cm. long, 1 mm. broad, linear, obtuse, ciliated at the apex, brick-red. _Receptacle_ 3 mm. in diameter, flat. _Florets_ all hermaphrodite. _Corolla-tube_ 2 cm. long, cylindric, glabrous, scarlet-red above, colourless below; lobes 3·5 mm. long, 0·75 mm. broad, linear, obtuse, scarlet-red. _Stamens_ inserted about halfway down the corolla-tube; filaments 6 mm. long, filiform, becoming linear for 1·5 mm. below the anthers; anthers 2·5 mm. long, linear, blunt at the base, tipped at the apex with a linear appendage 1·5 mm. long. _Ovary_ 2·5 mm. long, linear in outline, glabrous; style 2 mm. long, cylindric, glabrous; style-arms 4 mm. long, linear, tipped with a bristly cone. _Pappus_ of white hairs 1·6 cm. long, distantly barbellate. _Fruit_ not seen.
[A few years before the war a plant of this species was sent by Mr. J. Burtt Davy to Kew Gardens, where it flowered annually, but has since died.--N. E. BROWN.]