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or covered with a delicate pellicle of silvery subtomentose pubescence; 

 minutely and rather distantly toothed along the edges and at the tip ; veins 

 indistinct. 



Scapes usually solitary on the branchlets, springing from the axils of 

 the subterminal leaves, 7-15 cm. long, very slender, sparingly and loosely 

 tomentose ; bracts rather distant, linear-subulate. 



Heads 1-1 1 cm. across ; involucral bracts linear-subulate, delicately 

 glandular-pubescent, the inner longer. 



Achenes linear, sparsely pubescent, a little shorter than the pappus. 



Z?a6.— Mount Frederic, 3,400 ft. (P. G. Morgan) ! Arthur's Pass, 

 3,000 ft., D. P. ; mountains near Westport (Townson) ! Mount Greenland, 

 Westland (Dr. L. Cockayne) ! 



In his " Manual of the New Zealand Flora " Mr. Cheeseman has included 

 this plant in var. petiolata T. Kirk of Hooker's C. incana. It is doubtless 

 connected with that species by forms more or less intermediate, but it 

 possesses a number of distinctive characters that remain constant over wide 

 areas on the western side of the South Island, and it therefore appears to 

 me best to recognize it as a distinct species, a course that Dr. Cockayne 

 has already suggested. Mr. Kirk's variety, the type of which was collected 

 by myself, is closer to typical C. incana than is the widely spread form 

 described above. The species forms a transition between Hooker's species 

 C. incana and C. discolor. 



6. Helichrysum (Leucogenes) Grahami sp. uov. 



Caules numerosi a radice longo crasso ligneo emi si, simpliies v. parce 

 divisi, subgracilos (cum foliis 3-4 mm. lati), molles, flexiles, 10-15 cm. alti. 



Folia dense pluriseriatim imbricata, lato basi sessilia, breviter lanceo- 

 lata, + 5 mm. longa, subacuta, tomento laxo albido dense vestita ; superiora 

 ampliata capitulum tamen hand excedentia. 



Capitula 2-5-fasciculata, terminalia, sessilia, + 2 mm. lata ; iuvolucri 

 squamae 3-seriatae, pallidae, scariosae, uitidae, lineari-oblongae, subacutae 

 vix radiatae, exterioribus apice parce tomentosis. 



Floros numerosi, feminei 1-seriati ; corolla perangusta, basi subito 

 tumida, apicem versus leviter expansa ; pappi setae paucae, barbellatae, 

 apicem versus leviter incrassatae. 



Achenium parce pilosum. 



Stems numerous, from the top of a long stout woody root, simple or 

 sparingly branched, slender (with the leaves on, 3-4 mm. across), soft and 

 pliant, 10-15 cm. high. 



Leaves closely imbricating in several series, appressed or slightly spread- 

 ing at the tips, sessile by a broad base, shortly lanceolate, + 5 mm. long, 

 subacute, everywhere densely clothed with loose greyish-white cottony 

 tomentum, a few of he uppermost longer and broader, but not exceeding 

 the heads. 



Heads in capitate fascicles of 2-5, terminal, sessile, each + 2 mm. across ; 

 involucral bracts ip 3 series, very pale, shining, scarious, linear-oblong, 

 subacute, scarcely radiating, the outer sparingly tomentose on the backs. 



Florets numerous, female in 1 series ; corolla abruptly swollen at the 

 base, very narrow, slightly dilated above ; pappus hairs few, slender, bar- 

 bellate, slightly thickened above. 



Achene spars(;ly papillose. 



