GYNURA (from gyne, female, and oura, a tail; in reference to the rough, elongated stigma). ORD. Compositae. A genus comprising about twenty species of stove perennial herbs, inhabiting the tropics of the Eastern hemisphere. Flower-heads corymbose or solitary, at the tops of the branches. Leaves alternate, entire, dentate or pinnate, lobed or dissected. Gynuras thrive in a compost of sandy loam and peat, and are propagated by cuttings. The three species described below are those usually seen in cultivation. GYNURA aurantiaca (orange-coloured).* fl.-heads brilliant orange-colour, about 1/2in. across; florets all tubular. February. l. (and stem) furnished over their entire surface with small hairs of a beautiful violet colour; young leaves surrounding the flower-heads especially hairy. h. 2ft. to 3ft. Java, 1880. This may be planted in warm places out of doors during the summer. (I.II. 436.) GYNURA bicolor (two-coloured). fl.-heads solitary, terminal; involucres cylindrical; florets rich orange, slightly spreading, uniform, tubular. l. on the under side purple, sub-membranaceous, broad-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, slightly downy, penninerved, petiolate; petiole short. Stem herbaceous, erect. h. 2ft. to 3ft. Moluccas, 1799. (B. M. 5123.) GYNURA ovalis (oval-leaved). fl.-heads yellow. May to September. l. thickish, villous; lower ones oval, repand-toothed, stalked; upper sub-lyrate, amplexicaul. h. 3ft. East Indies. (B. R. 101, under name of Cacalia ovalis.)