380 COMPOSITH. [Senecto. 
late or linear. Heads campanulate, $-1in. diam.; involucral bracts 
about 15, linear or linear-oblong, membranous, acute, glandular- 
pubescent. Ray-florets 12-15, yellow; ligules spreading, 4-4 in. 
long. Disc-florets numerous; limb campanulate, 5-lobed. Achenes 
linear, densely silky. Pappus-hairs in several series, white, rigid, 
scabrid.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 161; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 347. 
Norru Istanp: Wellington—From the Pahau River to Cape Palliser; rare 
and local. Sea-level to 1500 ft. 
A handsome species, nearest to S. laxifolius, but at once separated by the 
larger obtuse leaves, dense corymbs, glandular-pubescent involucral bracts, and 
silky achenes. 
_ 21. S.compactus, 7’. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xii. (1880) 395.— 
A small much-branched compact shrub 2-3 ft. high and 3-6 it. 
diam. ; branches, petioles, leaves beneath, and inflorescence densely 
clothed with appressed snow-white tomentum. Leaves on slender 
petioles +-4in. long; blade #-14in., obovate or oblong-obovate, 
obtuse, rounded or narrowed at the base, coriaceous, glabrous above 
except a cottony line at the margin, obscurely crenulate or sinuate. 
Heads broadly campanulate, 3-1 in. diam., in 4-8-flowered terminal 
leafy racemes; involucral bracts about 12, linear, acute, densely 
tomentose. Ray-florets about 12, yellow; ligules broad, spreading. 
Disc-florets very numerous; limb funnel-shaped, 5-toothed. Achenes 
linear, grooved, silky. Pappus-hairs white, minutely scabrid.— 
Students’ Fl. 349. 
Nortu Istsnp: Wellington—Limestone clifis near Castlepoint, Kirk ! 
January—February. 
Closely allied to S. Monroi, but differing in the larger broader leaves with 
smoother and whiter tomentum beneath, narrow few-flowered inflorescence, and 
the white cottony tomentum of the pedicels and involucral bracts. 
22. S. Monroi, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii. 333.— A much- 
branched woody shrub 2-6 ft. high; branchlets, petioles, and 
leaves beneath clothed with appressed whitish tomentum. Leaves 
shortly petioled, $-1$in. long, narrow-oblong or oblong-obovate, 
obtuse, narrowed into the petiole, coriaceous, glabrous above ; 
margins wrinkled and crenate. Corymbs terminal, lax, leafy, 
slightly viscid; peduncles clothed with white tomentum ; pedicels 
slender, glandular-pubescent. Heads numerous, broadly turbinate, 
4-2 in. diam. ; involucral bracts 10-15, linear, acute, membranous, 
glandular-pubescent. Ray-florets 10-15, yellow ; ligules } in. long, 
broad, revolute. Disc-florets numerous; limb funnel-shaped, 4- 
toothed. Achenes linear, grooved, hispid with short white hairs. 
Pappus-hairs white, slender, minutely scabrid.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 
162; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 348. 
SourH Is~tanp: Nelson—Wangapeka, Kingsley! Jollie’s Pass, T. F. C. 
Marliorough—Not uncommon from the Awatere to the Conway River. 
1000-4500 ft. December-—January. 
