406 71. COMPOSITE : ASTEROIDE-Sl. 



71. COMPOSITE: ASTER0IDE2E. 



1. Solidago Virgaurea, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 880 ; DC. Prodr. 

 v. p. 338 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 179 ; Henriq. in Bol. Soc. 

 Brot. iii. p. 147 ; Hook, f. Fl. Brit. lnd. iii. p. 245 ; Miq. in 

 Journ. de'Bot. Need. i. p. 101 (var. leiocarpa) ; BreUchn. Early 

 Res. p. 101. 



Solidago cantoniensis et S. decurrens, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 501 ; 

 DC. Prodr. v. pp. 341-2. 



Amphirhapis leiocarpa, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. i. p. 488, et 

 in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. iv. p. 234; Steetz in Seem. Bot. Voy. 

 ' Herald; p. .386. 



Amphirhapis chinensis, Schultz-Bip. in Flora, 1852, p. 48 ? 



Cobea to Formosa, Hongkong, and the extreme south of 

 Kwangtung ; also in the interior province of Hupeh, apparently 

 very common, as it is in almost all collections. Mus. Brit. ; 

 Herb. Kew. 



Europe and temperate Asia, eastward to Japan, and in North 

 America. 



All the Chinese specimens we have seen belong to the variety 

 leiocarpa. 



1. Dichrocephala chrysanthemifolia, DC. in Wight Contrib. 

 Ind. Bot. p. 11, et Prodr. v. p. 372 ; Hook.f. Fl. Brit, lnd. iii. 

 p. 245, var. glabrata. 



Szechuen : above Chungching (Faber !). Herb. Kew. 

 Tropical and subtropical Asia and Africa. 



2. Dichrocephala latifolia, DC. Prodr. v. p. 372 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Hongk. p. 173 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. p. 245 ; Henriq. in 

 Bol. Soc. Brot. iii. p. 147 ; Engler, Bot. Jahrb. vi. p. 68 ; Wight, 

 Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 1096. 



Foemosa : Tamsui {Oldham, 255 ! Swinhoe !) ; Szechuen : near 

 Fu city, and on the Min river {Faber !) ; Kwangtung (Silva ex 

 Henriques) ; Hongkong (Hance, 454!). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. 

 Kew. 



Tropical and subtropical Asia and Africa. 



[Pteronia tomenfosa, Lour. (Fl. Cochinch. p. 489), is quite 

 unrecognizable from the description given, but it certainly does 

 not belong to the African genus to which it is referred.] 



