260 Composite-—Flumea. 
34, HUMEA. 
Though the only species in cultivation is widely different in 
aspect and habit from its allies, the structure of the minute 
flower-heads will be found to agree. Involucre of small im- 
bricated scales. Receptacle bracteolate, containing three or 
four florets. Pappus none.’ An Australian genus of few 
species, named in honour of Lady Hume. 
1. H. élegans.—A biennial attaining a height of 5 or 6 feet. 
Leaves large, oblong or lanceolate, clasping or decurrent at the 
base. Flower-heads minute, brownish-red, pink or crimson, 
in a large loosely branched terminal drooping panicle. When 
well grown this forms an clegant and graceful centre for small 
beds or for planting in mixed borders. 
This group would be hardly complete without a notice of 
the perennial Everlastings belonging to the dicecious genus 
alutennriaia. These plants are interior in beauty, but the fact 
of their being perfectly hardy will recommend them. They 
are densely woolly plants. .1. didica is a British species 
growing about 4 inches high, and bearing small corymbs of 
red flower-heads. A. Merguritaces rises to a height of 2 or 3 
fect, terminated by compact clusters of white flower-heads. 
Emilia sagittata, syn. Cucilia coccinea. — A glabrous 
glaucous erect annual about 18 inches high. Leaves ovate, 
coarsely toothed, cordate or sagittate at the base. Flower- 
heads rayless, scarlet or orange, in terminal corymbs. Involu- 
eral bracts in one row, erect. Achenes pentagonal, hairy on 
the angles; pappus filiform, in many series. 
Cineraria maritima is a perennial from the Mediterranean 
shores with haudsome silvery tomentose finely-cut foliage and 
yellow flower-heads. There is a variety with broader leaves 
known as aeunthifolia. 
Ligularia Kempfert, syn. Furfiigium grande. — This is 
also remarkable in its foliage. It is a stemless herb with large 
orbicular-cordate dark green glabrous shining leaves irregularly 
blotched with yellow, and elevated on long petioles. A native 
of China. 
Arnica montana. Mountain Tobaceo.—A tufted perennial. 
Leaves radical, except a fewsmall ones on the flower-stem, oblong- 
lanceolate, entire. Flower-stem about a foot high; flowers 
yellow, three or four together, about 2 inches in diameter; 
ray-Hlorets pumerous. There are several allied plants of similar 
