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(teeth very small) and entire, sometimes but rarely sharply 

 sei'rate, their bases produced much beyond the stem on the 

 opposite side, membranaceous, decreasing in size upwards, 

 distant ; veins largely anastomosing. Flower-heads not large, 

 3-4 lines diameter, disposed in spreading loose corymbose 

 panicles; peduncles 2in.-4in. long, much and dichotomously 

 branched above; pedicels -|in.-lin. long, very slender, with 

 scattered small bracteoles throughout. Involucre small, cam- 

 panulate, 1^ lines long (4 lines diameter when spread out flat), 

 glabrous, glistening, slightly rugulose and scabrid at base ; 

 lobes 13, oblong-ovate, about 1 line wide, suddenly sub- 

 acuminate, their centres thick, 2-3 dark-green strijDes, 1-2- 

 nerved, nerves yellow ; margins membranous, pellucid, very 

 broad, much imbricated, finely and regularly lacerate ; tips 

 pilose (semi- tufted), hairs white; several (5-8) small subulate 

 spreading bracteoles with pilose tips close to base. Flowers 

 bright orange-yellow, glabrous, all florets much dilated at 

 bases of tubes. Eeceptacle white, flattish, alveolate, the 

 alveoles large, sub-quadrilateral, with high-toothed borders, 

 and punctulate in centre, edges of punctures raised. Eay- 

 florets 10, ligulate, 3|- lines long, much recurved ; ligule oval, 

 largely veined ; veins about 8, the main ones forked at apex ; 

 tip retuse, with two small notches, extending far beyond 

 stigmata; the tube short, one-third length of floret, its style 

 glabrous, recurved, tips not dilated, and when spread out not 

 so wide as ligule. Disc-florets very numerous, 40 and up- 

 wards, tubular, 2h lines long (about two-thirds length of 

 ligulate florets), narrow campanulate or sub-infundibuliform 

 at mouth ; anthers included ; lobes veined ; tips erect, sub- 

 acute. Pappus erect, 2 lines long, fine, white, scabrid ; tips 

 acute. Achene linear, xV^^* 1°^^S' sub-4-sided, deeply sulcated 

 on two opposite sides, pale-brown, glabrous, but minutely 

 hairy in lines on the angles; hairs short, white, distant. 



Hah. " Face of pumice rocky boulders near the sea, 

 Whangawehi " (cliffs, north side of Table Cape, East Coast); 

 January, 1888 : Mr. A. Hamilton. 



Obs. I. This plant is certainly allied to S. hanksii, Hook, f .,* 

 also to S. vellcloides, A. Cunn. (an Australian species) ; but, 

 after much examination and study, I believe it to be 

 specifically distinct from both. Having received plenty of 

 good specimens from its discoverer, Mr. Hamilton, and being 

 very desirous of clearly ascertaining the true position of this 

 fine plant, I have very closely and exhaustively examined it, 

 as will, I presume, be allowed from the description given 



* " S. odoratus, Hornemann," of "Handbook N.Z. Flora;" but sub- 

 sequently corrected by Hooker himself, in his " Additions, Corrections," 

 &c., at p. 734, I.e., and the name of S. banksii restored. 



