FLORA OF THE ISLAND OF HONGKONG. 3S9 
what greater. The style is bulbous at the base in both, and the stigmatic series the same ; the anthers, 
pollen, and filaments are not different -, the shape and structure of the corollas, of the hermaphrodite as 
well as the female flowers, the pappus, the receptacle, the involucre arc quite the same in botli. Tlie female 
flowers however, very few in number, trifid or quadrifid at the summit, seem to be abortive hermaphrodite 
ones, because I found always iu both throe or four fllaments, often with the rudiments of free but sterile 
anthers. These rudiments I never found in Inula Conyza, Do Caud., in which the female flowers are more 
slender, and of a more delicate texture ; they seem also to be arranged in a complete series, and in a greater 
number. Otherwise I would agree with any one who would combine Inula Conyza, and some other species 
of that genus, which have the furrowed a^hsenia of almost the same sliapo as in InuJaster niacrq^Jii/Uus, with 
Duhaldea, De Cand. Provisionally the two species may be characterized thus : — 
DuTialdea Cldnensis, De Cand. 1. c. — D. fruticosa ; caulc ramisque teretihus dense villoso-tomcuiosis ; 
foliis inferioribus breviasime petiolatisj supcrioribui suhsessilibus oblougo-lanceolatis, utrinque attenuatis, 
minute calloso-deutatia vel Integerrimis, supra pilis sparsis scabris, subtus villis sericeis dense cano-tomen- 
tosis ; styli ramis apice pauUisper attenuatis ; achaeniis hirsutis. 
Dulialdea inacrophylla, Steetz. — Inulaster macrophyllus, C. H. Schultz, Bip. 1. e. — D. biennis (?) ; caule 
herbaceo, glabriusculo, sulcato, ramis pubescentibus ; foliis omnibus sessilibus, inferioribus vaginantibus, 
superioribus basi late cordata semiamplexicaulibus ovato-oblongis, irroguhiriter calloso-denticulatis vel sub- 
integerrimis, supra pilis sparsis scabris, subtus moUiter tomentosis; styli ramis apice clavato-obtusisj acha-niis 
glabris sulcatis. 
303. Anisopappus Chinensis, Hook, et Am. Bot. Beech, p. 196. — De Caad. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 
253. Victoria Peak (Hance!). 
De CandoUe has not seen this interesting plant, otherwise be would not have placed it amongst his 
"Plautse incertse sedis." Hooker remarks, with good reason, that "it approaches in character to J9tt- 
phthalmum, but has the habit of Verbesina.'' It must be ranged in the subtribe of JBupkthalmea, because it 
has the style of the Asferoidew tribe, which is almost quite the same as in Pallenis, bulbous at the base, and 
shortly bilobed at the top, the stigmatic lobes being ovate. The teeth of the disc-corolla are exceedingly 
small ; the young achjcnia are quadrangular and somewhat hairy ; the chaff of the receptacle plicate, clasping 
the achcenia and the whole disc-flower. Probably this plant is the Verhesina Cldnensis of Linnaeus, as no- 
ticed already by Hooker and Amott and by De CandoUe, 1. c, whose diagnosis and short but characteristic 
description agrees very well with our plant. But Linnaeus, in Sp. PL ed. Richter, p. 850, states, " Semina 
coronata margine et setis 4 ItBvihus" The four very short bristles of the achajnia, being merely serrate, 
should therefore prove that our plant cannot be identified with Linnaeus's Verhesina Chinensis, who cer- 
tainly has not overlooked the teeth of the bristles ! I suppose the misprints in Linnaeus's time were as 
numerous as in ours, and it may be conjectured that in his manuscript was written " setis 4 hrevihts" and 
that the printer made "setis 4 Icevihus^' of it. It would be worth the while to examine the plant in the 
herbarium of Linnaeus. 
304. 'EcLtiPTA prostraiUj Liun., De Cand. Prodr. vol. v. p. 490. n. 4. Hongkong (Seemann!). 
Small procumbent specimens, not higher than 8-10 inches ; the leaves 1 inch long, H-A lines broad, 
elliptical; attenuated into a short petiole; the immaturea cTiDcnia crowned ydth two opposite, short, callous 
teeth, in a tsmall coroxoform pappus, 
305. SiEGESEECKiA orieutalis^ Linn.j De Cand, Prodr. vol. v. p. 495, In waste places (Hinds, 
Champion, teste cl. Beuth. ; Hance !). 
