Helichrysum. | COMPOSIT. 341 
Heads 8-15 together, congested into a dense bracteate glomerule 
4-lin. diam. ; each head about in. across; bracts 10-20, spread- 
ing, +-$in. long, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, most 
densely woolly. Involucral bracts in 2 series, linear-lanceolate, 
woolly on the back, erect, scarious, shining. Florets numerous; 
females few, in 1 series. Achene silky. Pappus-hairs few, stout, 
scabrid, slightly thickened above.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 313. Gna- 
phalium Colensoi, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 154. 
Norra Isztanp: Mount Hikurangi (Hast Cape), Colenso! Adams and 
Petrie! Ruahine Mountains, Colenso! Petrie! Hill! Tongariro, Hill ! 
Tararua Range, H. H. Travers! Budden. Sourn Isutanp: Nelson—Raglan 
Range and mountains above the Wairau Gorge, 7. #.C.; Tarndale, Sinclair ; 
mountains above the Rainbow River, Bryant. 4000-6000 ft. January— 
February. 
A beautiful little plant, with precisely the aspect of the edelweiss of the 
European Alps (Leontopodiwm alpinum), but with flower-heads of different 
structure. 
9. H. grandiceps, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 154.—Densely 
tufted. Stems much branched, decumbent and woody at the base, 
2-8in. high; branches ascending or erect. Leaves densely im- 
bricate, spreading or recurved, +—4in. long, oblong- or obovate- 
spathulate, obtuse, flat or concave, clothed on both surfaces with 
appressed silvery tomentum. Peduncles composed of the elongated 
tips of the branches, leafy throughout, but the leaves usually not so 
closely imbricate. Heads congested into a terminal bracteate 
glomerule surrounded by leafy bracts, as in H. Leontopodium, but 
bracts rather shorter and broader. Involucral bracts in 2 series, 
linear, tomentose on the back, with brown scarious tips. Florets 
numerous ; females few, in 1 series. Achene silky. Pappus-hairs 
few, rather stout, thickened above.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 313. 
SoutH Isnanp: Not uncommon in mountain districts from Nelson to 
Otago. 2500-5000 ft. December—January. 
Allied to H. Leontopodium, but amply distinct in the shorter and broader 
usually recurved leaves, more densely leafy peduncles, shorter and broader 
bracts, and smaller glomerules. 
10. H. glomeratum, Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. 311.— 
A much-branched shrub 3-8ft. high; branches spreading, slen- 
der, flexuous, grooved, tomentose above. Leaves alternate, very 
variable in size, +14 in. long, orbicular or broadly ovate or ovate- 
spathulate, obtuse or minutely apiculate, suddenly narrowed into 
a short slender petiole, quite entire, flat ; upper surface glabrous, 
minutely reticulate; beneath clothed with white cottony tomentum. 
Heads in terminal or lateral sessile or stalked subglobose corymbs, 
small, j4,in. diam. Involucral bracts few, in about 3 series, 
oblong, obtuse, scarious, woolly at the base. Florets 8-12, 
2 or 3 of them female. Achene puberulous, with a thickened 
