Fm'fugium.'] composite. 191 



qisdy from Ligularia, of wHoh it has the involucre, style, and many other characters, for in 

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

 minute points at the base of the anthers. 



1. F. "Kseaxpfeny Benth, Koot-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 W ft.. high,, leafless, excep.ting small bracts imder the peduncles, bearmg 

 1 to 5 rather large pedunculate flower-heads. Inyplucral bracts 13 to 15, 

 about \ in. long. , Eay-florets about as many. Achenes rather large, hairy. — < 

 Ligularia JSiempferi, Sieb. and Zucc. Fl. Jap. i, 77, t. 35. r Senecio Kampferi, 

 DC. Prod. vi. 363. . 



Hongkong, Bance ; 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. GEBBEBA, Gron. < 



Flower-heads heterogampus. 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 3-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 niraierpus capillary bristles. — Herbs more or less wool^ or cottony. Leaves 

 radical. Scapes 1-headed. 



A smaU African genus, of whicl^ one species ranges across south-cgntral Asia. 



1. G. piloselloides, Gass.; DC.Prot?. vii. 16. Eoot-stook thick, per- 

 ennial and wooUy. Leaves more or less stalked, from oblong to oval, 3 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 wooHy, 

 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 flpwering, becomes nearly 

 as long as the achenes themselves when quite ripe. Pappus reddish.—©, o'oa.li- 

 /oZJa, DC. Prod. vii. 17. (?. flwaWis, Hance, inWalp. Ann. ii. 947. G.Schim-^ 

 peri, Sch. Bip. ; Walp. Ann. ii. Q47. 



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. AINSLI^A, DC. 



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

 limb unequally cleft into 5 narrow lobes, turned to the outer side or obscm-ely 

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

 Eeceptacle naked. Anthers with long points or tails at. the. basq. Style- 

 branches short and obtuse., Achenes strij^te. Pappus of numerous plumose 

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

 heads in long one-sided spikes or a nan-ow panicle. 



