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crowded at the ends of the branches, 3-7 in. long, lanceolate or 
elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, narrowed to a broad sessile 
base, quite entire, subcoriaceous, glabrous above, clothed with thin 
appressed white tomentum beneath ; veins reticulated. Panicles ter- 
minal, erect, 4-9 in. long ; peduncles and pedicels densely glandular- 
pubescent, lower bracts foliaceous. Heads numerous, 4-}in. 
diam.; involucral bracts about 12, linear-oblong, obtuse, glandular- 
pubescent. Ray-florets 12-15, yellow; ligules narrow, contorted. 
Dise-florets 20-30; limb campanulate, 5-lobed. Achenes oblong, 
grooved, glabrous. Pappus-hairs dirty-white, short, scabrid.—S. 
Muelleri, Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xv. (1883) 360; Students’ Fl. 
346. 
HEREKOPERE ISLAND (in Foveaux Strait): C. Traill, Kirk! Tue SNARES: 
Kirk ! December—January. 
This is clearly identical with Armstrong’s S. Stewarti@, a name which has 
two years’ priority over the S. Mwellert of Kirk. It is very closely allied to the 
preceding species, but the leaves are more acuminate, and the tomentum of tha 
under-surface is whiter, while the narrow contorted rays are quite unlike the 
short broad ones of S. Hunti. 
19. S. laxifolius, Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. ii. (1870) 89.— 
A small diffusely branched shrub 1-4 ft. high; branchlets, leaves 
beneath, and inflorescence densely clothed with white cottony 
tomentum. Leaves usually close-set, on slender petioles 4-1} in. 
long; blade 1-2}in., lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate or elliptic- 
lanceolate, acute at both ends, glabrous above or slightly cottony 
when young, coriaceous, quite entire. Panicle terminal, long and 
narrow, lax ; peduncles and pedicels slender, cottony ; lower bracts 
foliaceous. Heads 2in. diam., broad-campanulate; involucral 
bracts 12-15, linear-oblong, acute, tomentose, with broad scarious 
margins. Ray-florets 12-15, long and narrow, yellow. Disc- 
florets numerous. Achenes oblong, grooved, glabrous. — Kirk, 
Students’ Fl. 347. 
SoutH Isztanp: Nelson—Mount Arthur and Mount Owen, T. F. C.; 
Wairau Gorge, Bryant, T. F. C.; Spencer Mountains, Gibbs; Discovery 
Peaks, Travers! Fowler’s Pass, Kirk! 2500-3000 ft. December-—Feb- 
ruary. 
20. S. Greyii, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 148, t. 38.—A small 
spreading shrub 2-8ft. high; branches stout, woody, terete ; 
branchlets, under-surface of leaves, and petioles densely clothed 
with appressed soft white tomentum. Leaves on slender petioles 
t_14in. long; blade 14-34in., oblong or oblong-ovate, obtuse, 
rounded and often unequal at the base, coriaceous, quite entire, 
upper surface glabrous except a cottony line at the margin; midrib 
prominent beneath. Corymbs large, terminal, 2-5in. broad, much 
branched; peduncles and pedicels glandular-pubescent; bracts 
numerous, the lower ones foliaceous; the upper narrower, lanceo- 
