Siegesbeckia
(named in honour of John George Siegesbeck, M.D., a German botanist). ORD. Compositae, A genus consisting of only a couple of species of hardy, usually annual herbs; one (including several so-called species propounded by various authors) is broadly dispersed over tropical and sub-tropical regions; the other is a native of Peru. Flower-heads yellow or white, small, paniculate, sub-radiate; involucral bracts few, herbaceous; receptacle small; achenes glabrous. Leaves opposite, often broad, toothed. Only S. orientalis calls for description here. Seeds should be sown on a hotbed, in spring, and the seedlings, when strong enough, planted in the open border, at the end of May.
S. orientalis (Eastern). fl.-heads yellow; outer involucral scales three or four times longer than the inner ones. August. l. ovate-triangular, cuneate at base, acuminate at apex, deeply toothed. h. 2ft. Tropics, widely dispersed, 1824. (B. R. 1061; S. B. F. G. 203, under name of S. droseroides.)