Tab. 8698. 
SENECIO Mownror. 
New Zealand. 
ComposiTAzE. Tribe SENECIONIDEAE. 
Senecio, Linn, ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 446. 
Senecio Monroi, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. vol. ii. p. 333 (1855), et Handb. N.Z. 
Fl. p. 162 (1864); Kirk, Students’ Fl. p. 348 (1898); Cheeseman, Man. 
New Zeal. Fl. p. 880 (1906) ; affinis S. laxzfolio, Buch., sed foliis minoribus 
; “Ssh emi crasse undulatis, pedunculis brevioribus et involucri bracteis 
haud canescentibus differt. 
Frutex ramosissimus usque ad 2 m. altus; ramuli dense foliati, breviter albo- 
lanati. Folia petiolata, oblonga vel oblongo-lanceolata, apice obtusa, basi 
sensim angustata, 1°5-2°5 cm. longa, usque ad 1 cm. lata, margine 
incrassato et conspicue undulato-crenato, crasse coriacea, supra tenuiter 
reticulata et leviter viscida, infra breviter albo-lanata, enervosa, costa 
conspicua; petioli 0°5-1 cm. longi, basi incrassati, semiamplexicaules, 
albo-lanati. Capitula laxe corymbosa, pedunculata, 2-2°5 cm. expansa ; 
pedunculi gracillimi, glanduloso-puberuli, 2-3 em. longi. Involucri bracteae 
2-seriatae, lineares, acutae, exteriores 0°7 cm. longae, interiores paullo 
longiores, subherbaceae, extra breviter pubescentes. Flores radii 12-14, 
flavi; corollae tubus anguste cylindricus, 4 mm. longus, apicem versus 
parce pubescens; lamina oblongo-lanceolata, apice tridentata, 5-nervia, 
7 mm. longa, 2°5 mm. late. lores disci numerosi; corollae tubus 
inferne anguste cylindricus, superne paullo ampliatus, 0°5 cm. longus; 
lobi 5, lanceolati, subacuti, apice minute et parce pubescentes. Achaenia 
subteretia, breviter pubescentia. Pappus albus, amplus, 5 mm. longus, 
barbellatus.—J. Hurcuinson. 
The genus Senecio is represented in New Zealand by 
some thirty species which vary in habit from small 
weeds resembling the Groundsel of our gardens to much- 
branched shrubs with leathery leaves like S. Monroi, the 
subject of our illustration. This species, which is con- 
fined in a wild state to the South Island of New Zealand, 
where it flowers from December to January, along with 
a few others bears considerable resemblance in habit 
and appearance to some of the species of Olearia, 
Moench, so characteristic of New Zealand, but is readily 
distinguished by the fewer involucral bracts as well as by 
the different style-arms, which in Olearia exhibit the 
Feprvary, 1917. 
