Tab. 5417. 



LIGULARIA Hodgson r. 



Mr. Hodgson's Ligularia. 



Nat. Ord. Composite. — Syngenesia Supekflua. 



Gen. Char. Capitulum multiflorura, heterogamum, fioribus radii uniseriatis, 

 Iigulatis v. bilabiatis, staminibus effoetis v. nullis fcemineis, disci tubulosis, her- 

 raapliroditis. Involncrum campanulatum, subuniseriale. Receptaculum planum, 

 nudum. Corolla radii ligulatse v. bilabiatse, disci tubulosse quinquedentatae. 

 Anthera ecaudata3. Stigmata disci obtusa, pube longe descendente utrinque ob- 

 sessa, cono brevissimo superata. Achenia erostria, sulcata, teretiuscula, exalata, 

 baud ciliata. Pappus pluriserialis, pilosus, conformis. — Herbse perennes, in 

 Asia media et India boreali copiose provenientes, in Europa . orientali et media 

 rara ; foliis alternis variis, capitulis amplis flavis, in racemumce dispositis aut 

 solitariis, longe pedunculatis. Midi. 



Ligularia Hodgsoni ; perennis elata succulenta, foliis radicalibus cordato- 

 rotundatis repando-lobatis grosse acuteque dentato-serratis venosis, caulinis 

 superioribus prsecipue bracteisque cucullato-vaginatis, fioribus magnis (2£ 

 unc. latis) capitato-corymbosis, involucri foliolis uniserialibus basi bracteo- 

 latis. > 



A very distinct and perfectly new species of Ligularia from 

 Yezo, the most northern island of Japan, and from near Hako- 

 dadi, detected there by our late Consul, C. P. Hodgson, Esq., 

 after whom I name it. There is every reason to believe that it 

 will bear the open air in this climate ; but at present we have 

 kept it in a cool frame, where it produced its large bright-yellow 

 flowers in July. 



Descr. The root appears to be perennial. The stem is 

 thick and succulent, leafy, three feet, and probably more, high 

 under favourable circumstances, striated, purplish below, green 

 and downy above. Radical leaves on very long petioles, large, 

 cordate, or subrotund (occasionally approaching to remform), 

 more or less repandato-lobate, serrato-dentate with rather un- 

 equal but very sharp, coarse teeth. Cauline leaves gradually 

 smaller upwards, at length becoming leafless or nearly leafless 

 bracteas, which are cucullato-vaginate around the stein. Flowers 



DECEMBER 1ST, 1863. 



