Colenso. — On Phamogams. 389 



below ; petioles lin.-l^in. long, semi-amplexicaul, with weak 

 flexuous flattened hairs at bases ; petiolules short, slender. 

 Heads terminal, 2-3 together, each single one on a long 

 peduncle lin.-2m. long, slender striate bare, when two together 

 a long leafy bract at base, hemispherical, 5-6 lines diameter, 

 a leafy linear bracteole at base fin. long, base fimbriate. 

 Involucre slightly hairy at base, hairs weak white, bracts in 

 sub 2 rows, the outer ones few, distant, shorter, linear- 

 spathulate very obtuse, dark-green, three dark nerves, margins 

 ciliolate ; the inner sub-linear-ovate, acuminate, 3 lines long, 

 tips obtuse and very pubescent, shining, dark-brown with 

 broad yellow margins many • nerved (6-8), nerves dark-red, 

 shorter than florets, with long linear erect yellowish scales 

 between florets, longer than achenes, tips obtuse, 4-nerved ; 

 nerves dark-red. Florets sub 40, small, bright dark-orange : 

 ray- few, tip of limb 4-cleft, each lobe with a dark-red central 

 nerve ; disk- many, very small infundibuliform, 4-nerved, all 

 much dilated at base. Pappus, three stout erect barbed awns 

 1-J- lines long, bright-yellow, glistering, appearing much above 

 florets, the central awn shorter, sometimes but rarely 4 

 awns. Achene 2i lines long, linear subcompressed, flattish, 

 striate, bright-yellow, slightly hairy on upper margins and on 

 striae, the outer ones shorter and stouter subobovate, with a 

 few distant blunt mucros on their margins. Receptacle (fully 

 ripe) with large alveolar sockets and broad white flattish 

 smooth raised margins. 



Hab. Woods at Te Kawakawa, near East Cape ; 1894 : 

 Mr. H. Hill, 



Genus 17. Senecio, Linn. 

 1. S. hctcrophijlla, sp. nov. 



A tall erect branching glabrous perennial -herb, 5ft. -6ft. 

 high; root - stems few, very stout, liu. diameter; much- 

 branched about middle, and still more so at top, branches 

 long slender ; branchlets very slender, erect, and sparingly 

 leafed, bearing terminal corymbs. Leaves of two sizes, 

 narrow-lanceolate, acute, thin, roughish, very much and 

 closely veined, dentate-crenate, teeth straight, their tips 

 hardened, sharpish, sub 1 line apart, dark-green above, 

 paler beneath, midrib prominent on underside ; the larger 

 leaves few distant scattered on main stems, 5in.-6in. long, 

 fin. wide, sessile and largely auricled, auricles much den- 

 tate; the smaller leaves numerous, 2in.-3in. long, 2-3 lines 

 wide, almost linear, petiolate, subopposite and close on small 

 branchlets, springing from the axils of the larger leaves ; the 

 young half-developed leaves are very hairy, with short 

 fugacious white hairs, but the single scattered smaller 

 leaves on the upper branchlets are sessile and auricled 



