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Liabum (Probably a meaningless name)

(probably a meaningless name, as is frequent with those given by Adanson). Including Paranephelius and Sinclairia. SYNS. Andromachia and Starkea. ORD. Compositoe. A genus comprising about forty species of herbs or shrubs, natives of tropical and subtropical America, and the Andes. Flower-heads yellow, radiating; involucre campanulate or hemispherical; achenes villous or rarely glabrous. Leaves opposite, entire, dentate or lobed. L. uniflorum, probably the only species yet in cultivation, is a half-hardy alpine. It requires a compost of sandy loam and leaf mould, to which a little peat may be added. Propagated by division, in spring. L. uniflorum (one-flowered). fl.-heads brilliant golden-yellow, from 2in. to 3 1/2in. across. l. obovate, rugose, sub-pinnatifidly lobed. Peruvian Andes, 1870. (B. M. 5826, under name of Paranephelius uniflorus.)