Farfugium."] composite. 191 



cisely from Ligularia, of which it has the involucre, style, and many other characters, for in 

 the latter genus the florets are sometimes slightly bilabiate, and in some species there are 

 minute points at the base of the anthers. 



1. F. Ksempferi, Benth. Root-stock perennial, thick, horizontal, woolly. 

 Leaves radical, on long stalks orbicular, angular, reniform, or deeply cordate 

 at the base, 3 or 4 in. diameter, or rarely 5 or rather more in the wild plant, 

 glabrous or bearing underneath a loose cotton, which soon wears off. Scapes 

 1 to H ft. high, leafless, excepting small bracts under the peduncles, bearing 

 1 to 5 rather large pedunculate flower-heads. Involucral bracts 12 to 15, 

 about | in. long. Ray-florets about as many. Achenes rather large, hairy. — 

 Ligularia Kcempferi, Sieb. and Zucc. PL Jap. i. 77, t. 35. Senecio Kampferi, 



DC. Prod. vi. 363. 



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Hongkong, Hance ; in a watercourse among rocks, near the top of Victoria Peak, Wilford. 

 A native also of Loochoo and Japan, where it is much cultivated, and where Dr. Siebold 

 mentions a garden variety with blotched leaves, which may possibly be the F. grande, Lindl., 

 introduced to our gardens from N. China. 



35. GERBERA, Gron. 



Flower-heads heterogamous. Florets of the circumference female, ligulate, 

 in a single row, with 1 or 2 short slender inner lobes. Disk-florets herma- 

 phrodite, tubular, 5 -toothed, and more or less 2-lipped. Involucre imbricate, 

 in few rows. Receptacle naked. Anthers with long points or tails at the base. 

 Style-branches short and obtuse. Achenes usually ending in a beak. Pappus 

 of numerous capillary bristles. — Herbs more or less woolly or cottony. Leaves 

 radical. Scapes 1 -headed. 



A small African genus, of which one species ranges across south-central Asia. 



1. G. piloselloides, Cass.; DC. Prod. vii. 16. Root-stock thick, per- 

 ennial and woolly. Leaves more or less stalked, from oblong to oval, 2 to 3 

 in. long, entire, hairy above when young, but often becoming glabrous when 

 old, very woolly underneath. Scape 6 in. to 1 or even 1$ ft. high, very woolly, 

 especially towards the top, and thickened under the flower-head. Involucre 

 8 or 9 lines long, narrowed at the base, the bracts linear-lanceolate, pubes- 

 cent or woolly, rarely glabrous at the edges. Florets numerous and slender. 

 The beak of the achenes very short at the time of flowering, becomes nearly 

 as long as the achenes themselves when quite ripe. Pappus reddish. — G. ovali- 

 folia, DC. Prod. vii. 17. G. amabilis, Hance, in Walp. Ann. ii. 947. G. Sckim- 

 peri, Sch. Bip. ; Walp. Ann. ii. 947. 



Victoria Peak and other hills, Champion and others. In East Africa, from Port Natal and 

 Madagascar to Abyssinia. In Asia, from Nepal, Khasia, and Sikkim to S. China, and as 

 far north as Amoy. 



36. AINSLLffiA, DC. 



Flower-heads homogamous, with 3 or 4 hermaphrodite tabular florets ; the 

 limb unequally cleft into 5 narrow lobes, turned to the outer side or obscurely 

 2-lipped. Involucre cylindrical, with stiff very unequal imbricate bracts. 

 Receptacle naked. Anthers with long points or tails at the base. Style- 

 branches short and obtuse. Achenes striate. Pappus of numerous plumose 

 bristles. — Herbs. Leaves radical, except a few bracts on the stem. Flower- 

 heads in long one-sided spikes or a narrow panicle. 



