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campanulati squamis acutis apice pubescentibus glabratisve, ligulis breviusculis, acheniis linearibus pubes- 
centibus, pappo molli tenuissimo. 
Var. 8? velleia ; robustior, foliis rigide coriaceis subtus glaucis venis prominulis, capitulis latioribus, 
acheniis brevioribus. 
Var. y? scabrosus; caule foliisque subtus scaberulis pilis raris brevissimis rigidis, foliis angustioribus 
superne nitidis corymbisque glaberrimis. — $. scabrosus, Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic. 
Haz. Northern Island. East coast, Banks and Solander, Colenso. 
The S. Banksii in its usual form is a rather slender, branched, perfectly smooth plant, with flexuose, leafy, 
grooved stems and shining foliage. Leaves all sessile, 3-5 inches long, linear-oblong, acuminate, irregularly 
toothed, below deeply two-lobed, and embracing the stem with two rounded auricles. Corymbs lax, branching, 
of rather small heads, on slender pedicels. Involucre 4 inch long, of slender, blunt, smooth or sparingly pu- 
bescent scales, much shorter than the pappus, which is white, very soft, and of slender hairs. Ray florets few, 
with short ligula. Achenia long and slender for the size of the capitulum, nearly as long as the involucral 
scales, grooved and pubescent.—The varieties 8 and y may belong to different species, but my specimens of 
them are very indifferent. Var. 6 is a very thickly leathery-leaved plant, with stout stem and branches of the 
corymb, which bears very numerous broader heads, that have much shorter achenia. Var. y again is a more 
rigid plant, covered on the stem and under surface of the leaf with hispid scattered hairs, It was originally 
found by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Solander. This species is allied to the S. velleioides, Cunn., of New Hol- 
land and Tasmania, but is a more slender plant (except var. 8), and has much smaller capitula. 
$c. Woolly or hairy, simple or branched herbs, with leafy stems, often woody below, and corymbose heads 
of flowers. 
10. Senecio Colensoi, Hook. fil. ; totus molliter albido-lanatus v. araneosus, caule robusto decumbente, 
ramis foliosis ascendentibus, foliis lineari-oblongis oblongo-spathulatisve acutis obtusisve grosse et irregu- 
lariter sinuato-dentatis marginibus recurvis basi sessilibus amplexicaulibus, corymbis oligocephalis, involu- 
cris hemispheericis, ligulis brevibus revolutis, acheniis sulcatis pilosis, pappo molli pilis tenuissimis albidis. 
Has. Northern Island. Bay of Islands, East Cape, and Cape Kidnapper, Colenso. 
Stems and leaves more or less covered with snow-white appressed wool, more loose and cobwebby on the upper 
surface and branches of the panicle. Stem woody, stout, and prostrate below, with short, leafy, herbaceous, ascending or 
erect branches. Leaves numerous, crowded, very thick and coriaceous, 8-6 inches long, 3-14 broad, narrow-oblong, 
acuminate, coarsely and irregularly toothed or lobed, sessile, with a contracted two-lobed stem-clasping base. Corymbs 
of three to eight heads. Involucres broad, hemispherical, $ inch long and as broad. Ray florets with revolute ligule. 
Achenia neither long nor slender, pubescent, grooved.— Young root-leaves of some specimens are pinnatifid; it is 
probably a very variable plant in foliage, like 8. lautus, which it a good deal resembles in many respects. 
Oss. I have another species of this section gathered on the east coast by Mr. Colenso, but in too young a state 
for description. It is covered everywhere with short, white, hispid hairs. Stems short, leafy. Leaves 1 inch long, 
obovate-oblong or spathulate, coriaceous, blunt, sinuate-pinnatifid and toothed, narrowed into short petioles, that 
are dilated at the base and half stem-clasping. Corymés of many heads. 
$ d. Shrubs or small trees. Stems and branches woody. Achenium obconic, dilated at the top. (Brachyglottis, 
Forst., and Bedfordia, DC.) 
11. Senecio glastifolius, Hook. fil. ; glaberrimus, subarboreus, ramis apice foliosis, foliis petiolatis ob- 
ovatis obovato-lanceolatisve obtusis subacutisve integerrimis v. obtuse sinuato-dentatis, corymbis axillaribus 
terminalibusve ramosis ad axillas foliosis, pedunculis strictis, capitulis magnis, involucri squamis late lineari- 
oblongis obtusis, ligulis elongatis pallidis, acheniis lineari-obeonicis glaberrimis apice dilatatis, pappi setis 
