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the type-specimens preserved at Kew, show the flowers to be 

 less than half the size of those of E. vernicosum, with the lobes 

 of the calyx quite as long as the petals. In E. vernicostim the 

 petals exceed the calyx by at least a third of their length. 



Senecio glaucophylla, n. sp. 



Smooth and glaucous, perfectly glabrous, 1ft. -3ft. high. 

 Rootstock stout, woody, perennial. Branches very numerous, 

 closely packed, forming a dense mass of glaucous foliage, 

 usually bare at the very base or furnished with minute scale- 

 like leaves only, strongly grooved and striate, simple or 

 sparingly branched, very leafy above. Leaves 2in.-4in. long, 

 ■Jin.-lin. wide, oblanceolate, oblong-obovate or obovate-spathu- 

 late, obtuse or subacute, irregularly sinuate-dentate or serrate, 

 especially in the upper half of the leaf, gradually narrowed 

 into broad flat petioles, not sheathing nor dilated at the base, 

 very glaucous, texture rather thin, veins conspicuous, reticulate, 

 margins somewhat thickened. Upper stem-leaves narrower, 

 lanceolate or linear - lanceolate, sharply serrate, gradually 

 passing into the bracts, which are narrow, linear, and entire. 

 Flower - heads not very large, several in a loose terminal 

 corymb. Involucre broadly campanulate, scales linear, acumi- 

 nate, glabrous with the exception of a tuft of woolly hairs at 

 the tip, 2-ribbed. Florets of the ray about 15, in one series ; 

 disc-florets numerous. Eipe achenes not seen. 



Hah. Mount Arthur, Nelson, on limestone rocks; alt., 

 4,000ft. 



A very curious plant, its dense habit of growth and glaucous 

 leaves giving it a very different appearance from any of its 

 allies. Tiie stems seem to die down to the root in winter, a 

 fresh crop appearing in the following spring. My specimens 

 are somewhat immature, and the above description may con- 

 sequently require modification when more perfect examples 

 have been obtained. 



Senecio adamsii, Cheesemau. (S. 2)ac]iiji)hijllus, Cheese- 

 man, Trans. N.Z. Inst., xvi., 410). 



I find that the name of pachypliyllus is preoccupied by a 

 Chihan plant (Remy in C. Gay, Fl. Chili, iv., 147). I there- 

 fore propose the name of S. adamsii, in honour of my friend 

 Mr. James Adams, B.A., wdio was my companion when the 

 plant was originally discovered. 



Gentiana filipes, n. sp. 



Small, annual, perfectly glabrous, lin.-3in. high. Stems 

 simple or branched, erect, very slender, sparingly leafy. 

 Leaves almost all cauline, few, small, oblong- or obovate- 

 spathulate, lower narrowed into short petioles, upper sessile, 



