Tas. 3302. 
LIGULARIA KAEMPFERI; aureo-maculata. 
Kempfer’s Ligularia, golden-spotted var. 
Nat. Ord. Composttm.—SyNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
Gen. Char. Capitulum multiflorum, radiatum ; fl. radii }-serialibus, ligulatis, 
foemineis seepe biligulatis aut stam. rudimenta retinentibus ; disci tubulosis 5-den- 
tatis hermaphroditis. Znvolucrum campanulatum, subuniseriale. Receptaculum 
nudum, planum. Sfylus disci ramis obtusis, pube longe descendente utrinque 
obsessis; cono brevissimo superatis. Achenia erostria, sulcata, teretiuscula, exalata, 
eciliata. Pappus pluriserialis, pilosus, conformis.—Herbe perennes, gerontogee, 
Jere omnes Asiatice. Folia alterna, varia. Capitula ampla, flava, in racemum 
thyrsumve disposita, aut solitaria longe pedunculata. De Cand. 
Lreunarta Kempferi ; rhizomate carnoso perenni superne petiolisque elongatis, 
radiculis dense lanatis, foliis junioribus arachnoideis maturis glabris sub- 
rotundo-cordatis margine angulato-sinuatis subdentatisque basi sinu pro- 
fundo, seapo erecto, petiolis longioribus bracteatis lanatis, racemo subcorym- 
boso, capitulis basi bracteolatis, ovariis hirsutis. 
Lravnarta Kempferi. Sieb. et Zuccar. Fl. Jap. v. 1. p. 77. t. 35. 
Tusstzaco Japonica. Linn. Mart. p. 113. Thunb. Jap. p. 313. Banks, Ie. 
Kempf. t. 27,28. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. p. 1968. 
Senecto Kempferi. De Cand. Prodr. v. 6. p. 363. 
Arnica tussilaginea folio. Burmann, Fl. Ind. p. 182. 
Tsowa seu Tswa. Kempf. Ameen. p. 8217. 
Doronicum Tussilaginis folio ex insula Chusan, ete. Pluk. Amalth. p. 71. 
t. 390. f. 6. 
Farrucium Kempferi. Benth. Fl. Hongkong. p. 191? 
Var. aureo-maculata ; foliis maculis suborbicularibus majusculis aureo-flavis 
pietis. (Tas. Nostr. 5302.) 
Farrucerium grande. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1857, p. 4. 
This plant, so remarkable, when judiciously managed, for the 
beauty of its foliage, and now well known in our gardens under 
the name of Farfugium grande, was transmitted in 1856 to Mr. 
Glendinning’s Nursery, at Chiswick, by Mr. Fortune, from the 
garden of a mandarin in the north of China; and it was towards 
the close of the year exhibited and naturally much admired at 
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