characters that mark the tribe Asteroideac. S. Monroi 
was first sent to Kew in 1905 by Mr. G. Matthews, 
Dunedin ; at Kew it is grown in the cool greenhouse and 
flowers in autumn. The material for our figure came 
from the garden at Ludgvan Rectory. Long Rock, 
Cornwall, where, the Rev. Mr. Boscawen informs us, it 
was raised by him from seed sent to him from New 
Zealand in 1907. At Ludgvan the plant grows well in 
any ordinary garden soil and flowers freely; some of 
Mr. Boscawen’s examples are now compact bushes three 
feet in height and about four feet through. 
Description.— Shrub, much branched, 6-7 ft. high; twigs densely leafy, 
shortly white woolly. Leaves petioled, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 
gradually narrowed to the base, $-1 in. long, about 2 in. wide, margin 
thickened and distinctly undulate-crenate, thickly leathery, above finely 
reticulately veined and slightly viscid, beneath shortly white woolly, midrib 
raised but venation otherwise not visible ; petiole 1-2 in. long, with a thickened 
partly stem-clasping base, white woolly. Heads y corymbose, peduncled, 
3-1 in. across; peduncles slender, glandular-puberulous, 3-1} in. long; bracts 
of the involucre 2-seriate, linear, acute, the outer over + in. long, the inner 
rather longer, somewhat herbaceous, shortly pubescent externally. Ray-florets 
12-14, yellow’; corolla-tube narrow cylindric, } in. long, sparingly pubescent 
towards the tip; limb oblong-lanceolate, tip 3-dentate, 5-nerved, over + inch 
long, 35 in. wide. Disk-florets numerous; corolla-tube narrow-cylindric below, 
slightly widened upwards, 3 in. long, glabrous ; lobes 5, lanceolate, somewhat 
acute, finely and sparingly pubescent at the tip. Achenes almost terete, shortly 
pubescent. Pappus white, copious, + in. long, barbellate. 
Tas. 8698.—Fig. 1, a leaf; 2, a capitulum ; 8, a ray-floret; 4, a pappus- 
seta; 5, a disk-floret; 6, anthers ; 7, style-arms :—all enlarged, 
