Tas. 8037. ; 
BRACHYGLOTTIS Rrepanpa. 
New Zealand. : 
Composita. Tribe SENECIONIDER. 
Bracuyeorttis, Forst.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 444. 
Brachyglottis repanda, Forst. Char. Gen. (1776), p. 92, t. 46; Hook, f. 
Handb. N. Zeal. Fl. p. 163; Kirk, Students’ Flora of N. Z. p. 336; 
Gard. Chron, 1895, vol. i. p. 736, f. 110; species a B. Rangiora, Buch., 
foliis minoribus non lucidis et involucri bracteis albis nitidis differt. 
Frutex vel arbor parva, 8-20 ped. alta. Rami albo-tomentosi, molles. Folia 
alterna, longe petiolata, papyracea, absque petiolo szpius 4-8 poll. longa 
et 2-5 lata, nunc minora nunc majora, ovato-oblonga, basi cordata vel 
rotundata, vel superiora minora cuneata, angulato-paucilobulata, supra 
atroviridia, subtus albo-tomentosa; petioli 1-3 poll. longi. Capitula 
numerosissima, 2-3 lin. diametro, in paniculas amplas terminales pyrami- 
dales folia excedentia disposita, sessilia, ramulis tomentosis. Involucri 
bractez 6-8, uniseriate, oblonge, scarios®. Flores 8-12, vix 2 lin. longi, 
exteriores feminei, corolla alba ligulata; interiores hermaphroditi, corolla 
tubulosa lobis recurvis. Anthere lutew. Achenia minuta, papillis 
hyalinis conspersa. Pappi sets copios#, uniseriate, albz.—Cineraria 
vepanda, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austral. (1786), p. 56; Senecio Forstert, 
Hook. f. Fl. N. Zel. i. p. 148, non Philippi, nec Schlecht. 
Kirk retains Buchanan’s B. Rangiora, probably because 
the natives distinguish two species; but he observes that 
it is not satisfactory as a species, and we have failed to 
sort the dried specimens into two. Kirk adds that it is 
much handsomer than B. repanda, the pukapuka or whar- 
angi-tawhito of the Maoris; the leaves more glossy and 
larger, sometimes as much as twelve inches by fifteen 
without the petiole. Perhaps the plant figured is the 
Rangiora of the Maoris, though that is described as having 
purple involucres, At all events it produces leaves under 
cultivation equally as large as indicated for B. Rangiora by 
Kirk. B. repanda, as we shall continue to call it, was 
introduced, or perhaps re-introduced, about a dozen years 
ago, and succeeds well out of doors in the West of 
England and in Ireland, especially near the sea; and itis 
a very striking object. Earl Annesley (‘‘ Beautiful and 
Rare Trees and Plants,” t. 29) shows the habit in a 
specimen growing in the open air in his grounds at 
Castlewellan. It flowers freely in the Scilly Islands, and 
OcroBER Ist, 1905. 
