330 COMPOSITA. { Raoulia. 
Var. pusilla, Kirk, Students’ Fl. 302.—Smaller, glabrous or nearly so, 
much more closely branched; branches 4-}in. high. Leaves j,—7, in., linear, 
acute, concave. Female florets almost twice as numerous as the hermaphrodite 
ones. 
Norru anp SourH IsntAnps: Not uncommon from the Thames goldfields 
southwards, usually on gravelly or sandy river-beds. Var. pusilla: Rimutaka 
Range, Kirk! mountains flanking the Wairau Valley, T. F. C. Sea-level to 
5000 ft. December-January. 
Easily distinguished by the slender habit, narrow acute or apiculate leaves 
with greyish tomentum, and brown-tipped involucral bracts. 
3. R. Haastii, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. fi. 148.—Glabrous or 
nearly so, forming small dense patches. Stems short, rather stout, 
prostrate ; branches numerous, closely packed, 4-1 in. high, rarely 
more. Leaves densely imbricated, erecto-patent, ;, in. long, with 
a broad membranous sheathing base and much narrower ovyate- 
subulate coriaceous tip, concave, quite glabrous or obscurely silky 
or woolly. Heads 4in. long; involucral bracts in 2-3 series, 
scarious, linear, obtuse, not brown at the tips. Florets few, 4 to 8; 
2-4 of them female. Achene puberulous. Pappus-hairs copious, 
slender, not thickened above.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 302. 
SoutH Isntanp: Nelson—Waiau Valley, Sinclair, Travers; Amuri, Kirk ! 
Clarence Valley, 7. #. C. Canterbury—Kowai River, Haast! Upper Waimaka- 
riri and Broken River, Kirk! T. F.C. Otago—Kyeburn Crossing, Maniototo 
County, Petrie! 1000-3000 ft. November—December. 
Separated from R. tenwicaulis by the shorter leaves with broad bases and 
ovate-subulate tips, and by the narrower few-flowered heads. 
4. R. Monroi, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fil. 148.—Stems wiry, 
creeping, much interlaced, forming broad patches; rootlets long, 
filiform ; branches slender, ascending, silky, 1-2in. high or more. 
Leaves laxly or densely imbricate, rarely distant, spreading and 
recurved, +1 in. long, linear or linear-spathulate, obtuse, uniformly 
clothed on both surfaces with greyish-white appressed tomentum ; 
margins incurved. Heads narrow, ¢in. long; involucral bracts in 
3-4 series; the outer oblong, tomentose; the inner longer and 
narrower, scarious, with brown obtuse tips. Florets from 15 to 20, 
the females the most numerous. Achene oblong, puberulous. 
Pappus-hairs copious, slender, not thickened at the tips.—Kirk, 
Students’ Fl. 303. 
SoutH Isnanp: Not uncommon in dry gravelly and sandy places in Marl- 
borough, Canterbury, and Otago. Sea-level to 3500 ft. © November—January. 
Easily recognised by the uniform greyish-whits colour, linear spreading and 
recurved leaves, and narrow heads with brown-tipped involucral scales. 
5. R. glabra, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 135.—Stems long, 
slender, prostrate, much branched, forming lax patches 3-24 in. 
acypss; branches ascending, 1-3in. long. Leaves pale yellow- 
