344 COMPOSIT. (Helichrysum. 
SourH Isnanp: Marlborough—Kaikoura Mountains, Monro, Buchanan ! 
Upper Awatere, Sinclair! Medway Creek, Kirk! Palmer River, Cockayne! 
Nelson—Western slopes of Mount Percival, T. F. C. 3000-5000 ft. 
A most remarkable plant. 
16. H. pauciflorum, Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. (1898) 
351.—A small much-branched greyish-white plant, with a hard 
and woody base. Stems 3-8 in. high, decumbent below, erect or 
ascending at the tips; branches stout, with the leaves }-4 in. diam. 
Leaves densely imbricate in several series, 4in. long, oblong or 
oblong-spathulate, obtuse or subacute, erect or spreading at the 
tips, sessile by a broad base, both surfaces densely clothed with 
greyish-white tomentum. Heads in. diam., solitary, sessile at the 
tips of the branches and almost hidden by the leaves ; involucral 
bracts in 2 series, lanceolate, acute, scarious, silky at the base on 
the outside. Florets few, 10-16, of which 3-6 are females. Achene 
clothed with long silky hairs, and with a thickened areole at the 
base. Pappus-hairs few, thickened upwards.—Students’ Fl. 313. 
SourH Isnanp: Canterbury—Craigieburn Mountains, Cockayne! Petrie! 
Candlestick Mountains, Cockayne ! 3000-5000 ft. 
A curious species, with a close superficial resemblance in habit and foliage 
to H. grandiceps, but with an altogether different inflorescence. 
12. CASSINIA, R. Br. 
Shrubs or very rarely herbs. Leaves alternate, entire. Heads 
small, numerous, in terminal corymbs or panicles, discoid, homo- 
gamous in most of the species, but usually heterogamous in those 
found in New Zealand. Involucre oblong or ovoid; bracts in 
several series, imbricate, scarious; the inner with short white radi- 
ating tips. Receptacle narrow, with scarious chaffy scales among 
the florets. Florets few, in the majority of the species all herma- 
phrodite, tubular, 5-toothed ; but in the New Zealand species 1 or 
2 of the outer ones are female, filiform, minutely toothed. Anthers 
sagittate at the base, usually produced into slender tails. Style- 
branches of the hermaphrodite florets terete, truncate. Achenes 
small, angled or almost terete. Pappus-hairs in 1 series, slender, 
free or connate at the base. 
A small genus of about 20 species, confined to Australia, New Zealand, and 
South Africa. The New Zealand species are all endemic, and with 1 or 2 from 
South Africa constitute the subgenus Rhynea, characterized by the inner inyo- 
lucral bracts having short white radiating tips, and by the heads usually having 
1 or 2 female florets. The species are very closely allied, and are by no means 
easy to discriminate. 
* Receptacle with numerous scales among the florets. 
Leaves 4-2 in., linear-obovate, white beneath .. .. 1. C. retorta. 
Leaves ;,-3in., linear or linear-spathulate, white or yel- 
lowish beneath ot oe 0 oc e- 
Leaves }-+4 in., linear-obovate or linear-oblong, glutinous, 
fulvous or whitish beneath .. a = 2% 
2. C. leptophylila. 
3. C. Vauvilliersii. 
