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above. It differs from S. banks ii (vera) in several characters : 

 that plant has " Ihiear-oblong leaves, slender blunt iuvolucral 

 scales, very short ligulse " (ray-florets), and "long achenia." 

 (" Flora KZ.," vol. i., p. 147.) It also differs from the allied 

 Australian species, S. vdleioidcs, in the nuich shorter bracts 

 and shorter disc-florets (and probably very much broader ray- 

 florets) of this plant. Bentham, in his description of S. vel- 

 leioides, says, " Involucral bracts 3-4 lines long, with avery 

 few small outer ones ; disc-florets scarcely exceeding invo- 

 lucre." (" Flora Austral.," vol. iii., p. 668.) 



II. Hooker, under S. banksii (I.e.), has also given, with a 

 doubt, two New Zealand varieties of that species : one of them, 

 "var. ^ velleia," may prove to be identical with this plant. 

 Unfortunately, Hooker says but very little about its differential 

 characters, but that little is more in agreement with this 

 plant. I quote his remarks: "Var. (3 (?) velleia; robustior, 

 foliis rigide coriaceis subtus glaucis venis prominulis, capitulis 

 latioribus, acheniis brevioribus." And, again: " The vars. /3 

 and y may belong to different species, but my specimens of 

 them are very indifferent. Var. /? is a very thickly leathery- 

 leaved plant, with stout stem and branches of the corymb, 

 which bears very numerous broader heads, that have much 

 shorter achenia." 



I may further observe that Hooker also gives the hab. and 

 discoverers of *S'. banksii and its two varieties thus: "Hab. 

 North Island, East Coast; Banks and Solander, Colenso." 

 And the facts pertaining to the same, taken in connection 

 with the discovery of this plant by Mr. Hamilton on the 

 north side of Table Cape, seem to pohit to something more 

 than a casual coincidence : for Banks and Solander were only 

 on shore on the east coast at Poverty Bay and Tolaga Bay, 

 a few miles north of Table Cape ; and my specimens were also 

 detected by me in nearly that same locality — viz., between 

 Tolaga and Poverty Bays — -in travelling along the east coast 

 early in December, 1841. I have never visited Table Cape. 



[Since writing the above I have referred to some brief 

 notes of that journey, written by me at the time to Sir W. J. 

 Hooker (to accompany my specimens), and shortly after pub- 

 lished by him in the " London Journal of Botany," vol. iii., 

 p. 16 : from them I make the following extract : — 



" Dec. 9th, 1841. — I was fortunate enough to obtain here on 

 the clayey cliff's three species of Compositce quite new to me. 

 One (No. 25) grew commonly about the bases and faces of the 

 low clayey and sandy cliffs, and often attained the height of 4ft.- 

 5ft. Another (No. 46) was found in similar situations, and of 

 the same height as the preceding : the peculiar glaucous leaves 

 of this last, so much resembling those found on the flowering 



