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332 COMPOSITH. [Raoulia. 
Mr. Petrie’s specimens and my own agree with Mr. Buchanan’s figure, and 
exactly match a specimen which he gave me from Mount Alta, the original 
locality. In Mr. Kirk’s herbarium it is placed under Helichrysum Youngit ; 
but that species differs widely in the larger leaves clothed with softer tomen- 
tum, much larger heads with very much longer acute inner involucral bracts, 
and in the more numerous florets. 
8. R. subulata, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 149.—A small densely 
tufted species forming moss-like patches 1-3in. diam., perfectly 
glabrous in all its parts; branches 4-1 in. high. Leaves very closely 
imbricated, suberect or patent, $4 1n. long, subulate, acuminate, 
l-nerved. Heads din. diam. ; involucral bracts in 2-3 series, linear. 
oblong, scarious, acute, not white nor radiating. Receptacle convex, 
hispid. Florets 18-25, the females usually rather fewer in number 
than the hermaphrodite ones. Achene silky. Pappus-hairs some- 
what rigid, thickened at the tips.— Kirk, Students’ Fl. 304. 
SourH Istanp: Nelson—Mountains above the Wairau Gorge, Sinclair, 
1T’. F. C. Canterbury—Mountains above Arthur’s Pass, 7. ¥. C.; Rangitata 
Valley, Armstrong! Otago—Lake district, Hector and Buchanan! Hector 
Mountains, Mount Pisa, Mount Tyndall, Petrie ! 4000-6500 ft. December-— 
January. 
A well-marked species, not closely related to any other. 
9. R. eximia, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 149.—Forming large 
rounded or amorphous densely compacted masses from 2-3 in. to 
several feet long, and sometimes over 2 ft. high. Root stout, woody ; 
branches short, with the leaves $in. diam. Leaves most densely 
packed, imbricated all round the branch in many series, $-1 in. long, 
linear-obovate or linear-cuneate, rounded at the tip, membranous, 
bearing on both surfaces towards the tip a dense tuft of straight 
white hairs which project beyond the leaf and entirely conceal it. 
On the back of the leaf the hairs often extend half-way down the 
leaf or more, but on the upper surface the lower two-thirds is usually 
quite glabrous. Heads numerous, small, sunk among the leaves at 
the tips of the branches; involucral bracts in 2 series, narrow- 
linear, scarious, with a tuft of hairs above the middle, not white at 
the tips. Florets 8-12 or more, the hermaphrodite ones more 
numerous than the female. Achene clothed with long silky hairs, 
and with a thickened areole at the base. Pappus-hairs few, rigid. 
thickened at the tip.— Kirk, Students’ Fl. 304. 
SourH Isntanp: Nelson—Mount Peel, 7. F. C. Canterbury—Mount Tor- 
lesse, Haast, Kirk! Hnys! Petrie! Cockayne! T.F.C.; Mount Dobson, 
Haast, T. F. C.; Mount Cook district, 7. F. C. Otago—Lake district, 
Buchanan! Mount Ida Range, Petrie ! 4000-6000 ft. December—January. 
A most remarkable plant. It is probably not uncommon in alpine situations 
all along the eastern side of the Southern Alps from Nelson to Otago, but I have 
only quoted those localities from whence I have seen flowering specimens. Ina 
barren state itis very easy to confound it with R. mammuillaris. 
