Microglossa
(from mikros, small, and glossa, a tongue; alluding to the shortness of the straps of the ray-flowers). SYN. Frivaldia. ORD. Compositoe. This genus comprises about six species of shrubs, inhabiting, for the most part, the warmer regions of Asia and Africa. Flower-heads small; disk pale-coloured; ray white or pale blue. Leaves alternate, ovate or lanceolate, entire. M. albescens, probably the only species yet introduced, is a hardy shrubby perennial, thriving in almost any soil. Propagated by seeds, or by division of the roots.
M. albescens (whitish).* fl.-heads pale blue or whitish, Asterlike, small, numerous, in terminal corymbs. l. alternate, lanceolate, acuminate. Himalayas, 1883. A very handsome and floriferous plant. SYN. Aster albescens. (B. M. 6672.)