380 BOTANY OE THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. HERALD. 
U. cc. — Wlprs. 1. c. B. 9. Abundant on barren hills (Hinds ; Championj teste el. Bentb. ; Hance ! 
Seemann!). 
288. AsTEKOM^A Iiidica, Blume. — De Cand. Prodr. vol. v, p, 303- n. 1. Hongkong (Hancc !). 
De Candolle's brief diagnosis agrees tlirougtout well witli Dr. Hance's specimens, except in the 
squamae of the involucre, which are hubrlcated, and arranged In three rows, and not, as stated, in two. In 
the dried state it is impossible to distinguish whether the disc-flowers he yellow or blue. Our plant has 
somewhat the appearance of Calimeris integrifolia^ Turcz,, but the short pappus is more paleaceous, the pale^ 
being united at the base, fimbriate at the apex, and not setose, I regret much that the few specimens are 
without ripe achsenia ; they seem to become four-costate. The plant approaches also very near to Sisicisua 
Canfoniemis, Be Cand. Prodr, voh vi. p. 44, of which I po^^sess two specimens, collected by Mr. Theodore 
Siemgsen about Canton, hut these have the achcema (also unripe) without any pappus, and the habit of 
Boltonia^ L*ITerIt, It is however a true Asteroideous plant, having a style with lanceolate and acute 
branches, and belongs not to the Senecionidew, Chysanthemet^j where placed by De CandoUe, but to the 
BeUidece, 
289. Lagenopuoka Billardieri, Cass., De Cand. Prodr. vol. v. p. 307 +. — Ixauchenus lyratus, 
Cass. Hongkong (Champion, teste cl. Benth). 
290. Amphirhapis leiocarpa, Bentb. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. i. p. 488^ and in Hook. Jonrn. 
Rot. and Kcw Misc. vol. iv, p. 231. n. 14..~Wlprs. Rep. Bot. Syst. vol. ii. p. 690.— SoUdae/o, C. H. 
Scbultz, Bip., PI. Fortuiici exsicc, n. 106, of. Plora, 1852, p. 48. Abundant in ravines (Hinds; 
Champion, teste cl. Benth. ; Seemann !). About Chusan (Fortune !). 
I am not quite certain whether Seemann's two specimoiis belong to AntpJdrJiapis leiocarpa, Benth., be- 
cause I have uot seen the authentic specimens collected bj Hinds and Champion, and because the speci- 
mens before me have no ripe achaenia, so that I am unable to say whether they be compressed or not, the 
only distinction between Amplurhapis and Solidago. They are however quite glabrous and striate, as de- 
scribed by Mr. Bentham, and tlie whole plant has in fact the habit of some varieties of SoUdago Virgaurea, 
L., with a more simple inflorescence, as noticed by the same author; this however always has the achfenia 
pubescent. The short diagnosis agrees well with them, but I find the leaves sparingly aud remotely ser- 
rate, and not irregularly denticulate. The genus Solidago is, as far as I know, not indigenous to China, 
and the two doubtful speeica of Lourelro's Solidago Cantonieiisis and S. decurrens, of which the ach^nia are 
not described, may probably belong to the genus AmpUrkapiH, De Cand. Fortune's plant is quite the same 
as Seemann's. 
291. Grangea Maderaspalana, Poir., De Cand. Prodr. vol. v. p. 373. n. 1. Common in the 
Happy VaUey (Champion, teste cl. Benth. ; Hance !). 
De Candolle describes the style in the flowers of the disc as undivided, but I always found it bilobed 
m these and other specimens, the stfgmatic branches being broader than the style itself, ovate, flat, some- 
what obtuse at the apex, and covered with numerous little blunt papilla on the outside. The anthers are 
pure white, truly ecaudate, rounded at the base, and tapering into a lanceolate, somewhat obtuse and in- 
cm^-ed, or eomnveut appendage. The pollen-granules are globose and echinulate. The female flowers 
are often quadnfid, aud uot always trifid, as stated by De Candolle, 1. c. 
292. CoNvzA ambigua, De Cand. Prodr. vol. v. p. 381. n. 31. Common on the roadsides (Cham- 
pion, teste cl. Benth. ; Hance ! Seemann !). 
293. Blumea lacera, De Cand. Prodr. vol, v. p. 436. n. 19 a.-Var. a. Burmanni, De Cand. cf. 
Zolhnger in Flora, 1847, p. 531. Hongkong (Hance !). 
