Helichrysum. | COMPOSIT. 339 
peduncles, 4in. diam. ; involucral bracts in about 4 series; the 
outer shorter, oblong, obtuse, cottony at the base; inner longer, 
linear-oblong or linear, acute, scarious. Receptacle small, convex. 
Florets numerous; females few, in 1 series. Achene obscurely 
papillose or puberulous. Pappus-hairs very slender. — Kirk, 
Students’ Flora, 309. Gnaphalium filicaule, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. 
Fil. 158. 
NortH AND SoutH ISLANDS, CHATHAM ISLANDS, STEWART IsLAND: Not 
uncommon in dry grassy places from Rotorua southwards. Sea-level to 
4000 ft. December—February. 
4. H. Sinclairii, Hook. 7. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 153. — ‘A small 
subalpine species; stems and branches ascending, leafy, 2—4 in. 
high. Leaves close-set, spreading, +-4in. long, }in. broad, linear- 
oblong or obovate-spathulate, obtuse, densely covered with pale 
cottony tomentum on both surfaces. Heads +in. diam., in nu- 
merous rounded terminal dense corymbs 4-1 in. across; peduncles 
and pedicels short, densely cottony; outer scales of involucre 
cottony, inner shortly radiating ; female florets in 1 series ; pappus 
of few stout hairs, thickened towards the tip. Achene glabrous.’’— 
Kirk, Students’ Fl. 309. 
SourH Isnranp: Marlborough— Upper Awatere Valley, Sinclair (Hand- 
book). 
This has not been observed since its first discovery, nearly fifty years ago. 
Not having seen specimens, I have reproduced Hooker’s description. He com- 
pares it with the Tasmanian Haoulia catipes (Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 206, t. 58), 
but states that the leaves are smaller, the heads not half the size, and much 
more numerous. 
5. H. Youngii, Handb. N.Z. Fl. 152.—Densely tufted, form- 
ing broad soft patches #-14in. high; branches stout, erect, with 
the leaves 4in. diam. Leaves densely imbricate, erecto-patent or 
spreading, {+ in. long, obovate-oblong, obtuse, sessile by a broad 
base, densely clothed on both surfaces with soft white or buff 
cottony tomentum. Heads 4-4in. diam., sessile amongst the ter- 
minal leaves; involucral bracts in about 3 series; the outer shorter, 
woolly and tomentose at the base; the inner longer, linear-oblong, 
acute, with white radiating tips almost equalling the scarious claw, 
and much exceeding the florets. Florets numerous, 50-70; about 
20-30 females, in 2 series. Achene pubescent. Pappus-hairs few, 
rigid, brittle, slightly thickened above.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 310. 
SoutH [stanp: Canterbury—Mount Torlesse and Mount Cook, Haast! 
T.F.C. Otago—Lake Hawea, Haast; Lake Wanaka, Buchanan! Mount Pisa, 
Mount Cardrona, Hector Mountains, Petrie ! 4500-6500 ft. January. 
This differs from Helichrysum in habit and in the numerous female florets, 
and would perhaps be more appropriately placed in Raoulia, of which it has the 
pappus-hairs of the section Imbricaria. In Mr. Kirk’s herbarium it is mixed 
with Raoulia Parkii, the distinguishing characters of which have already been 
pointed out under the genus Raouwlia. 
