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naked. Ray-florets in one series, numerous, female, ligulate. Dise- 
florets numerous, hermaphrodite, tubular, limb more or less dilated, 
5-toothed. Anthers obtuse at the base. Style-branches of the 
disc-florets flattened, with lanceolate or triangular tips. Achenes 
compressed, with winged margins, or thick and obtusely 4-angled. 
Pappus a ring of short scale-like bristles or altogether wanting. 
The genus has its headquarters in Australia, where there are nearly 
40 species. In addition to those, and the five following found in New Zealand, 
there is one from tropical South Africa and another from Assam. 
* Stemless. Leaves all radical. 
Minute, perfectly glabrous. Leaves narrow-linear, }~1 in. 
long. Heads ,in. diam. .. re Se a 
Leaves 4-1} in. long, narrow linear-spathulate, closely and 
uniformly pinnatifid ae he ae di 
Leaves 3-3 in. long, oblong- or obovate-spathulate, rarely 
narrower, entire toothed or lobed ef Si .- 3& B. Sinclairii. 
1. B. lineata. 
2. B. pinnata. 
** Stems branched from the base. Leaves radical and cauline. 
Stems 2-4in. Leaves few, 4-lin., oblong-spathulate, 
unequally 3--8-lobed. Heads 4-+in. .. aia ae 
Stems 3-12in. Leaves numerous, 1-3 in., oblong-spathu- 
late, coarsely toothed or lobed. Heads din. diam. .. 5. B. Thomsoni. 
4. B. odorata. 
B. simplicifolia, J. B. Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 338, is quite 
unknown to me, and there are no specimens in any public collection in the 
colony. It probably does not belong to the genus. 
1. B. lineata, 7. Kirk, Students’ Fl. 259.—A minute tufted 
plant 4-14in. high, perfectly glabrous in all its parts. Leaves 
numerous, all radical, +-lin. long, about ;, in. wide, broadest to- 
wards the tip, obtuse or subacute, narrowed to the base, which is 
slightly broader and sheathing, flat, quite entire. Scapes 2-5, 
slender, strict, naked, elongating in fruit, about twice as long as the 
leaves. Heads solitary, small, j,—-;,1in. diam.; involucral bracts 
about 8, oblong-ovate, with broad purple scarious margins. Ray- 
florets few; ligules short, white, revolute. Achenes very small, 
pale, compressed, linear-obovate, obtuse, quite smooth and glabrous. 
Pappus wanting.—Lagenophora linearis, Petrie in Trans. N.Z Inst. 
xxv. (1893) 271. 
SoutH Isnanp: Grassy flats near Lake Te Anau, Petrie! January—Feb- 
ruary. 
A curious little species, quite unlike any other. 
2. B. pinnata, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 138.—Rhizome stout, 
creeping, branched, ascending at the tips. Leaves radical, 4-14 in. 
long, linear or narrow linear-spathulate, deeply and closely pinnati- 
fid ; segments broadly oblong or rounded, coriaceous, entire, flat or 
concave beneath, glabrous or minutely glandular-pubescent. Scapes 
2-6in. long, slender, naked, glandular-pubescent. Heads +in. 
diam. ; involucral bracts oblong, pubescent; margins purple, scarious 
