CoLENSo. — 0)i New Plueiioyavis. 599 



their tips very acuminate pungent, pale ; stigmas large, rough, 

 bristly, dark-red, tips acute. Pappus few, white, erect, sca- 

 berulous, shorter than disk -florets. Achene small linear 

 terete, thickest at top, glabrous. 



Hab. In low damp grounds, and on margins of water- 

 courses. South Norsewood, County of Waipawa : Mr. A. Olsen ; 

 189-4-95. (Also, in former years, but barren : W. C.) 



Obs. A species near to 0. vinjata, Hook. 



Genus 17. Senecio, Linn. 



1. S. rujiglaiidulosis, sp. nov. 



Annual. Herb stout, erect, simple, glabrous, 2ft. -3ft. 

 high; stem thick, \m. diameter, subangular, hard below but 

 not woody. Leaves few, distant lin.-2in. apart on stem, 

 ovate acuujinate acute, irregularly and coarsely duplicato- 

 dentate, lamina 4in. long, 2Jin. wide, tapering to base and 

 there largely dilated ^in. or more, cordate auricled but free 

 from stem not clasping, soft, very thin, margins thickened 

 and recurved (very plain in young leaves), light-green above, 

 much paler below, glandular-pubescent ; pubescence above 

 suberect and curled, scattered, small, their tips darkish-red, 

 smaller and shorter below ; veins few, distant, 6-jugate ; mid- 

 rib stout, prominent underneath throughout lower half of leaf ; 

 petiole 2in. long, succulent, stout, channelled, white, 3 lines 

 wide, winged ; wings denticulate. Flowers in a large loose 

 many-branched diffuse corymbose panicle, Sin, -10m. dia- 

 meter; main flowering-branches 10in.-12in. long, axillary, 

 erect, slender, striate, terete, yellow-green, without leaves, 

 but bavin"- a long narrow leaf-like bracteole at base of 



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peduncle, each branch containing 5 heads, wuth a long hnear 

 toothed bract at base of lowest branchlet ; pedicels slender, 

 6-9 lines long, with a subulate bract at base and another on 

 pedicel. Heads campanulate, 3 lines long. Involucral scales 

 many in a smgle row, oblong-acuminate, green, glandular, 

 slightly viscid, margins broad white membranous greatly 

 imbricate, tips hairy acute tipped with black, 4-5 narrow- 

 subulate bracteoles also tipped with black at base, spreading, 

 clasping head. Flowers expanded fin. wide, hght-yellow ; 

 florets of ray 12, lamina uarrow-oblong-lanceolate spreading 

 and subrevolute, tip rounded 3-toothed, the central tooth 

 obtuse and lower than the two outside ones ; style arms 

 small, slightly exserted from tube — of disk numerous (sub 40), 

 5-toothed ; styles exserted short, linear truncate, much re- 

 curved. Pappus white, erect, a little longer than involucre, 

 shorter than disk-florets, scabrid, acute. Achene linear semi- 

 terete, densely pubescent, striate, shghtly thickened upwards, 

 base obtuse, alveolar. Eeceptacle rugged. 



