Senecios of New Zealand. The material for our plate has 
been supplied by Mr. T. A. Dorrien-Smith from his garden at 
Tresco Abbey, Isles of Scilly, where the plant thrives well 
in good soil. It has to be noted that while the bracts in 
the specimens sent for the purpose were oblanceolate and 
toothed, as shown in our figure, the corresponding bracts in 
the majority of the wild specimens in the herbarium at 
Kew are ligulate and entire. 3 
Desoription.— Shrub, erect, 7-15 ft. high, occasionally 
higher; branches stout. Leaves very variable, linear- 
oblanceolate or obovate, apex obtuse, base narrowed, above 
the middle sparingly repand-toothed or more often entire, 
papery; 14-44 in. long, 1-11 in. wide, lateral nerves on each 
side 4-6, ascending, distinct but hardly raised; petiole 
4-¢ in. long, slender. Corymbs large, 4-12 in. across, or 
at times very large, 3 ft. wide, usually much branched ; 
lower bracts leafy; peduncles slender, 32-2 in. long, 
4-5-bracteate above, the bracts recurved. /Zeads numerous, 
campanulate, 13-2 in. wide. Jnvolucral bracts more or less 
2-seriate, oblong-oblanceolate, rather acute, about 3 in. 
long, ;'5 in. wide, somewhat membranous, shortly pubescent 
at the tip. Receptacle flat, alveolate. Ray-florets about 10, 
white, spreading ; tube short ; lamina oblanceolate, 4-nerved, 
very shortly 3-toothed. Disk-florets yellow. Achenes 
linear, sulcate, glabrous, about 1 in. long; pappus white, 
the setae barbellate, nearly 1 in. long. 
Fig. 1, floret of the ray; 2, floret of the disk: 3, a single seta of the pappus; 
4 anthers; 5, style-arms:—all enlarged. ake ° ae 
