Raillardia
(named in honour of A. M. L. Raillard, an officer in the French Marine service). ORD. Compositae. A genus comprising nine species of greenhouse shrubs, confined to the Sandwich Islands. Flower-heads yellow, rayless, mediocre or small, racemose or corymbose at the apices of the branches; involucre cylindrical or narrow-campanulate, with one series of connate or at length free bracts; receptacle small, convex or sub-conical, naked or setose-fimbrilliferous; achenes narrow, glabrous, or slightly pilose. Leaves opposite, ternately whorled, or alternate, sessile, entire, coriaceous, at length shining. For culture of the only species introduced--now probably lost to gardens--see Senecio.
R. ciliolata (fringed-leaved). fl.-heads five to eight, clustered in a paniculate corymb; achenes sub-tetragonal, attenuated at base. July. l. ternately whorled, lanceolate, glabrous on both sides, rather more than 1/2in. long, shortly ciliated on the margins. Branches velvety-pubescent. h. 2ft. 1865. (B. M. 5517.)