Longchampia
SYNS. Asteropterus, Callicornia. ORD. Compositoe. A genus comprising four species of greenhouse evergreen herbs or sub-shrubs, three of which inhabit South Africa, and the other extends from Southern Spain, through North Africa, as far as Western Asia. Flower-heads yellow, on long peduncles; involucre turbinate or campanulate. Leaves narrow, linear, or subulate, entire. Leysseras thrive in a compost of rough peat and loam. Propagated by half-ripened cuttings, inserted in sandy soil, during summer; or by seed. L. capillifolia (hair-leaved). fl.-heads yellow; peduncles naked, axillary, one-headed. June. l. woolly, subulate, filiform. Stem filiform, branched. h. 6in. Barbary, 1822.
L. gnaphalioides (Gnaphalium-like). fl.-heads orange; scales of involucre lanceolate. July to September. l. linear, subulate, ciliate, rough. h. 2ft. Cape of Good Hope, 1774.
L. squarrosa (squarrose). A synonym of Helipterum gnaphalioides.