Tas. 4994, 
DORONICUM Bovurean. 
Bourgeau’s Leopard’s-bane. 
Nat. Ord. Composit#.—SyNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
Gen. Char. Doronicum, C. H. Schultz Bipont. (Linn. ex parte.\—Capitulum 
multiflorum, heterogamum, floridus radii 1-serialibus, lingulatis, faemineis ; disci 
tubulosis, hermaphroditis, 5-dentatis. Anthere ecaudate, appendice lanceolata 
terminate. Styli rami apice truncato-penicillati. Involueri 1-2-serialis sguame 
herbacez vel coriacese. Receptaculum convexiusculum, nudum, reticulatum vel 
alveolatum. Achenia radii breve columnaria, utrinque paulo attracta, 10-costata, 
glabra, calva!, subpersistentia, majora quam achenia disci, turbinata vel colum- 
naria, superne attracta, pilosa, omnia pappo coronata piloso, denticulato, 1-2-seriali, 
albente, persistente vel caduco.—Herbz perennes, paleogea, radice repente, pl. 
Jiliformi, internodiis incrassata, fibris numerosis crassisque instructa et caulem 
proferentes pl. corymbo terminatum, rarius monocephalum, cum foliis alternis, subor- 
biculato-oblongis, inferioribus petiolatis, superioribus sessilibus vel cordato-auricu- 
latis, sepius pilis articulatis instructum. Flores flavi vel rubenti-violacei, rarius 
ligule albentes. Schultz Bipont. 
Doronicum Bourgai; herbaceum erectum ramosum, foliis profunde cordatis 
sinuato-angulatis denticulatis simplicibus vel inferioribus lyrato-pinnatis, 
pinnis lateralibus parvis cordato-ovatis (terminali maxima cordata) omnibus 
superne glabris subtus arachnoideis albidis, petiolis basi (folioram superiorum _ 
totis) lato-alatis, corymbis terminalibus compositis decompositisve amplis, 
floribus purpureo-violaceis, acheniis disci pilosis, radii nudis. ke 
Doronicum Bourgei. Schultz Bip. in Bourgeau, Pl. Canarienses (ex itinere se- 
cundo), 1855, n. 1373. 
A highly ornamental greenhouse plant, flowering during the — 
spring months along with the purple-flowered species of Cine- 
- raria (or Senecio, for to that genus they are now generally re- 
ferred) of the Canary Islands. It was detected by M. Bourgeau 
(now, happily for science, engaged on account of the British 
Government on an exploring expedition in North America) at 
Barranco del Angostura, in the Canary Islands, in 1855. Seeds 
were fortunately sent to the Royal Garden of Kew, where it 
proves to be easy of cultivation and a profuse flowerer. If M. 
Schultz has anywhere described the plant, we have failed to find 
JULY Ist, 1857. 
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