Lasiospermum
(from lasios, woolly, and sperma, a seed; in reference to the woolly texture of the achenes). SYNS. Lanipila, Mataxa. ORD. Compositae. This genus comprises four species of perennial, or rarely annual, glabrous herbs, natives of the Cape of Good Hope. Flower-heads small, heterogamous, rayed or disk-formed; ray-florets white or violet; disk-florets yellow. Leaves alternate, pinnatisect. L. pedunculare, the only species yet introduced, is a greenhouse or half-hardy plant, thriving in any ordinary garden soil. Propagated by divisions, in spring; or by cuttings, placed under a handlight, in summer.
L. pedunculare (peduncled). fl.-heads discoid, marginal flowers minute, tubular. l. membranous. h. 6in.