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LII. COMPOSITE 
ovate. 2xl| in., finely toothed; and the heads are in spikes, 
rarely clustered. 
Valleys below Simla ; March, April. — Simla to Bhotan, 5000-6000 ft. — 
Burmah. 
48. GERBERA. In honour of T. Gerber, a German naturalist 
and traveller of the eighteenth century. — Asia, Africa. 
Herbs. Leaves all radical, glabrous on the upper surface, 
white-tomentose on the lower. Heads radiate, solitary on long, 
erect, leafless stalks. Involucral bracts many, erect, the inner- 
most slightly longer than the pappus, the outer gradually shorter ; 
receptacle flat, naked ; flowers white ; pappus copious ; corolla- 
tube slender, limb 2 -lipped ; lobes of the ray-flowers very unequal, 
outer ones long, spreading, 3-toothed, inner much shorter, bifid ; 
lobes of the disk-flowers nearly equal, outer ones 3-4-toothed, 
