382 COMPOSITE. [ Senecio. 
narrow woolly border showing on each side of the line of junction, 
the rounded edge of the leaf constricted here and there, and hence 
appearing crenate. Peduncles terminating the branchlets, 2-4 in. 
long, clothed with numerous leafy bracts. Heads solitary, 1+ in. 
diam.; involucral bracts few, broad, herbaceous, woolly on the back. 
Achenes linear-oblong, glabrous, obscurely ribbed. Pappus white, 
soft.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 161; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 344. 
SoutH Isuanp: Dusky Bay, Lyall, Hector and Buchanan ! 1500-3000 ft. 
Two specimens in Mr. Buchanan’s herbarium are all I have seen of this 
curious and most distinct species. 
26. S. cassinioides, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 163.—An erect 
much-branched shrub 4-10ft. high; bark deciduous, loose and 
papery ; branches numerous, crowded, spreading, brittle, tomen- 
tose above. Leaves loosely imbricating, 4+in. long, linear or 
linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, sessile, coriaceous, entire, gla- 
brous above, beneath clothed with appressed whitish-yellow tomen- 
tum. Heads solitary, sessile, terminating the branches, } in. diam. ; 
involucral bracts 8-10, linear-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, tomentose, 
the inner with broad scarious margins. Florets 12-20; ray-florets 
4-6, with a broad and short revolute ligule; disc-florets broadly 
campanulate, deeply 5-lobed. Achenes linear, grooved, glabrous, 
expanded into a cup-shaped border at the tip. Pappus-hairs white, 
rigid, scabrid.— Kirk, Students’ Fl. 351. 
Soury Istanp: Not uncommon in mountain districts from Nelson to north- 
west Otago. 2000-4000 ft. January—February. 
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A singular species, quite unlike any other. It has much of the habit of 
Cassinia Vauvilliersii, but is a larger plant, with more numerous crowded 
branchlets and different tomentum. 
27. S. eleagnifolius, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 150, t. 41.—A 
stout or slender spreading shrub 4-10ft. high; branches grooved, 
and with the petioles, under-surface of the leaves, and inflorescence 
densely clothed with pale-buff tomentum. Leaves on grooved 
petioles 3-14in. long; blade 2-5in., obovate or ovate - oblong or 
elliptic-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, coriaceous, 
glabrous and shining above, midrib and principal veins usually 
evident. Panicles terminal, stout, branched; pedicels densely to- 
mentose. Heads +in. diam., campanulate or obconic, discoid; in- 
volucral bracts 9-12, linear-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, very densely 
woolly. Female florets often wanting; when present 1-3, small, 
tubular with the mouth minutely toothed. Disc-florets numerous, 
with a narrow-campanulate 5-toothed limb. Achenes linear, grooved, 
hispid. Pappus-hairs dirty-white, rigid, scabrid—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 
162; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 349. 
