Cassinia. | COMPOSITE. 345 
** Receptacle with few or no scales among the florets. 
Leaves }-4 in., linear-spathulate, white beneath .. 4. C. amena. 
Leaves 4-tin., linear or narrow linear-spathulate, glu- 
tinous, fulyous beneath 5 +e is -. o. C. fulonda. 
1. C. retorta, A. Cunn. ex D.C. Prodr. vi. 154.—A much or 
sparingly branched heath-like shrub 4-15 ft. high ; branches stout, 
spreading, clothed with white tomentum. Leaves numerous, small, 
crowded, spreading and recurved, 4-4in. long, linear-obovate or 
linear-oblong or oblong-obovate, obtuse, narrowed into a very short 
petiole, coriaceous, glabrous or hoary above, beneath clothed with 
dense white tomentum; margins recurved. Heads numerous, in 
small terminal corvmbs, shortly pedicelled, turbinate, +in. long; 
involucral bracts in several series; the outer shorter, ovate-oblong, 
tomentose; inner linear-oblong, with short white obtuse radiating 
tips. Receptacle with many white-tipped scales similar to the 
inner involucral bracts. Florets 6-20. Achenes glabrous, striate. 
Pappus-hairs slender.—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 132; Handb. N.Z. 
Fl. 145; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 314. 
Nortu IstanD: Common as far south as the East Cape, usually near the 
coast, on sand-dunes, &c. November-February. 
2. C. leptophylla, f. Br. an Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. (1817) 126. 
—Much like C. retorta in habit and general appearance, but 
branches more slender. Leaves smaller, crowded, erect or spread- 
ing or recurved, ;4,—-4in. long, narrow-linear or linear-spathulate, 
obtuse, coriaceous, glabrous above, clothed with white or yellowish 
tomentum beneath ; margins recurved. Heads numerous, in small 
terminal corymbs, very shortly pedicelled, narrow-turbinate, 4 in. 
long ; involucral bracts in several series; the outer broader and 
shorter, glabrous or nearly so; inner linear, obtuse, with short 
white radiating tips. Receptacle with white-tipped scales sub- 
tending the florets. Florets 6-12. Achene and pappus as in 
C. retorta.—A. Cunn. Precur. n. 447 (in part); Raoul, Choix, 45 ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i.182; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 145; Kirk, Students’ 
Fi. 314. C. spathulata, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii. (1890) 472. 
Calea leptophylla, Forst. Prodr. n. 287. 
Norry anp SoutH Is~tanps: Not uncommon from the East Cape south- 
wards to Marlborough and Nelson. Tauhinu-korokio ; Cottonwood. De- 
cember—February. 
Very close to the preceding, but differing in the more slender habit, smaller 
and narrower leaves, and smaller and narrower glabrate heads. Mr. Colenso’s 
C. spathulata does not seem to me to be even entitled to varietal rank, 
3. C. Vauvilliersii, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 183.—An erect 
closely branched shrub 2--6ft. high; branches stout, erect or 
spreading, often glutinous, grooved, and with the leaves beneath 
densely clothed with fulvous or whitish tomentum. Leaves numer- 
