374 COMPOSITE, [ Senecio. 
Var. discoideus.—Sparingly branched, prostrate or decumbent, rarely 
erect. Leaves very fleshy, obovate or spathulate, coarsely toothed or lobed, 
sometimes pinnatifid below. Heads large, $-$in. diam.; rays wanting.— 
Mountain districts in the South Island. 
Var. radiolatus, Kirk, Students’ Fl. 341.—More or less pubescent. Lower 
leaves broad, membranous, narrowed into slender petioles, toothed or lobed or 
pinnatifid; upper sessile, auricled at the base. Heads 3-4 in., radiate; rays 
short, broad. Achenes very mucilaginous when soaked in warm water.— 
S. radiolatus, F’. Muell. Veg. Chath. Is. 24, t. 4. Chatham Islands, H. H. 
Travers! Cox and Cockayne ! 
8. S. glaucophyllus, Cheesem. wm Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii. 
(1896) 5386.—Smooth and glaucous, perfectly glabrous, 1-3 ft. high. 
Rootstock stout, woody. Stems numerous, strongly grooved, 
simple or sparingly branched, naked at the base or with minute 
scale-like leaves only, leafy above. Leaves 2-4in. long, $-lin. 
wide, oblanceolate or oblong-obovate or obovate-spathulate, obtuse 
or subacute, gradually narrowed into broad flat petioles, not dilated 
nor sheathing at the base, irregularly sinuate-dentate or serrate, 
rather thin, very glaucous; margins somewhat thickened. Upper 
leaves narrower, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, serrate, gradually 
passing into narrow-linear entire bracts. Heads several in a loose 
terminal corymb, broadly campanulate, 4in. diam.; involucral 
bracts linear, acuminate, 2-ribbed, glabrous or pilose at the tips. 
Ray-florets about 15; disc-florets numerous. Achenes not seen.— 
Kirk, Students’ Fl. 345. 
SourH Is~tanp: Nelson—Mount Arthur, on limestone rocks, alt. 4000 ft., 
PAH Ct January. 
A very curious plant, its bushy mode of growth and glaucous leaves giving 
it a very different appearance to any of its allies. The stems appear to die down 
to the root in winter, a fresh crop appearing in the following spring. My 
specimens are in young flower only, and the above description may require 
modification when more perfect examples have been obtained. 
9. S. latifolius, Banks and Sol. ex Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 
145.—A tall erect much-branched glabrous herb 2-4 ft. high; stems 
flexuous, grooved. Leaves membranous, 2-8 in. long, very variable 
in shape; lower on long winged petioles with or without small 
toothed auricles at the base, blade broadly oblong or ovate-oblong to 
linear-oblong, toothed or lobulate or irregularly lyrate-pinnatifid ; 
upper sessile, ovate-oblong to linear-oblong, coarsely toothed or 
lobed, often contracted below the middle and then expanding into 
broad toothed auricles; uppermost leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, 
serrate or dentate. Corymbs broad, lax, much branched; branches 
slender. Heads very numerous, 4—3in. diam.; involucral bracts 
in 1 series, linear, acuminate, glabrous or pubescent. Ray-florets 
12-20; ligule narrow, spreading. Disc-florets 30-40. Achenes 
linear, grooved, hispidulous. Pappus-hairs soft, copious, white.— 
Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 159; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 341. 
