378 COMPOSIT2. [ Senecio. 
tin. long, yellow, revolute. Disc-florets 6-10; limb broadly cam- 
panulate, deeply 5-lobed. Achenes grooved, glabrous or sparingly 
hispidulous. Pappus-hairs in several series, rigid, minutely den- 
ticulate.—Choix, 21, t. 18; Hook. f. Fi. Nov. Zel. 1.150; Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. 161; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 345. 
Sourn Istanp: Nelson—Riwaka, Rev. F. H. Spencer; Wairoa Gorge, 
Bryant. Canterbury—Akaroa, Raoul; Alford Forest, J. D. Enys! Peel 
Forest, W. Barker. Otago—Not uncommon in the vicinity of Dunedin, 
G. M. Thomson! Petrie! Sea-level to 2000 ft. January-April. 
16. S. perdicioides, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 149.—A smaill 
round-topped branching shrub 2-6ft. high; branches slender, 
grooved, pubescent, scarred where the leaves have fallen away. 
Leaves 1-2in. long, oblong or elliptic-oblong to ovate-oblong, 
obtuse, membranous, crenate-serrate or dentate, quite glabrous; 
veins reticulated ; petioles slender. Corymbs leafy, terminating the 
branches ; pedicels slender, pubescent. Heads turbinate, + in. long; 
involucral bracts about 5, oblong, obtuse, with broad scarious 
margins. Ray-florets 2 or 3, rarely more, yellow; ligule oblong, 
spreading. Disc-florets 4-8; limb funnel-shaped, deeply 5-lobed. 
Achenes oblong, grooved, glabrous or nearly so. Pappus-hairs in 
2 series, rigid, minutely scabrid.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 161; Kirk, 
Students’ Fl. 345. S. multinerve, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxv. 
(1893) 330. §. distinctus, Col. l.c. xxvii. (1895) 390. 
Norru Isuanp: From Hicks Bay and the East Cape to Mahia Peninsula ; 
not uncommon. Raukumara. November—January. 
17. S. Huntii, 7. Muell. Veg. Chath. Is. 23, t. 3—A shrub or 
small round-headed tree 6-20 ft. high, usually more or less glandu- 
lar-pubescent and viscid in all its parts; branchlets marked with 
the scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves crowded, 2-4in. long, 
elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong to linear-obovate, obtuse or 
acute, narrowed to a sessile base, entire, glabrous or nearly so 
above, usually clothed with thin fulvous tomentum beneath ; margins 
flat or subrevolute ; midrib prominent beneath. Panicle terminal, 
large, dense, much branched, 3-5in. broad; pedicels slender, 
densely glandular-hirsute. Heaas 4-2in. diam.; involucral bracts 
about 12, linear-oblong, obtuse or acute, membranous, glandular, 
villous at the tips. Ray-florets 15-20, yellow; ligule broad, re- 
volute. Disc-florets numerous ; limb campanulate, 5-lobed. Achenes 
oblong, grooved, glabrous. Pappus-hairs in 2 series. slender, 
scabrid.— Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 734; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 346. 
CHatHam Is~tanps: Not uncommon, H. H. Travers, Mair! Cox! 
Cockayne ! Rautin. December-February. 
18. S. Stewartize, Armst. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 339.— 
A shrub or small tree 6—25 ft. high ; trunk 8-24 in. diam. ; branches 
spreading, marked with the scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves 
