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petioles 3-5 inches long. Racemes effuse, drooping, as large as the leaves; branches zigzag, slender. Heads very 
small, 2-3 lines long. /mvolucre campanulate, of smooth or pubescent, linear, scarious scales, with hyaline edges. 
Kay florets few, with a short inconspicuous three- to five-lobed ray. Achenium short, covered with transparent papille. 
Pappus white, scanty, in one series.— This is a well-known plant, the natives having used the broad leaves as 
paper, whence the native name came to be applied by them to English paper. I have abandoned the genus Bra- 
chyglottis, which was founded upon this species, S. rotundifolius, because it has no characters that are not common to 
various species of Senecio. For the same reason Bedfordia (a Tasmanian genus) must also be reduced to Senecio, its 
species being referable to Brachyglottis were that genus tenable. With respect to the species of Senecio, they vary 
remarkably in the presence or absence of a ray, some of the rayed species even having the florets of the circum- 
ference absent, or reduced to tubular ones. B. repanda shows well the conversion of a tubular into a rayed corolla, 
the latter cut extremely irregularly, and often even simply tubular with unequal divisions. The pappus again, which 
is normally soft and of many sete in Senecio, varies extremely in these respects; it is nearly simple in this plant, 
double in most others, of unequal setee in many, pure white or dirty white. The obconic achenium with a dilated 
top would offer a better character for Brachyglottis, but it is not always very evident, and is one of degree only, 
for the Senecios with short achenia have also a strong tendency to this form. —PLare XL. Fig. 1, receptacle and 
involucre ; 2, floret of the ray; 3, of the disc :—all magnified. 
14. Senecio (Brachyglottis) perdicioides, Hook. fil.; fruticosus, ramulis pubescentibus apice foliosis, 
foliis glaberrimis gracile petiolatis elliptico-ovatis obtusis crenato-dentatis, corymbis versus apices ramulorum 
axillaribus terminalibusque, capitulis pedicellatis turbinatis sub-8-floris, pedicellis pubescentibus, involucri 
squamis paucis obtusis puberulis, achenio profunde sulcato glaberrimo, pappi pilis 2-seriatis scaberulis. 
Perdicium senecioides, Banks et Sol. MSS. et Le. 
Has. Northern Island. Tolaga, in woods, Banks and Solander. 
A bush, with rather slender pubescent branches, which are striated, covered with brown bark and scarred at the 
places whence the old leaves have fallen away. eaves on slender petioles, quite smooth, 1-13 inch long, elliptic- 
ovate, blunt, crenated and toothed, finely reticulated on the under surface. Corymbs of few heads, axillary and ter- 
minal on the ultimate branches. Heads on pubescent pedicels. Znvolucre obeonic, + inch long, eight-flowered ; 
scales few, broad, blunt. Ray florets few, with short broad ligule. Receptacle convex, pitted, with raised margins to 
the hollows. Pappus of two series of scabrid hairs. Achenium obconic, deeply furrowed, quite smooth and glabrous. 
—1 only know this very distinct plant from a specimen in the Banksian Herbarium. 
15. Senecio (Brachyglottis) rožundi/olius, Forst.; arbuscula, tota (nisi pagina superiore folii) dense 
appresse lanata, ramis ramulisque crassis, foliis valide petiolatis crassis coriaceisque late ovato-rotundatis 
cordatisve obtusis integerrimis, corymbis amplis ramosis polycephalis, ramulis foliosis pedunculisque crassis, 
involueri lineari-oblongi squamis coriaceis erectis, flosculis radii brevissime ligulatis, achenio elongato sub- 
compresso glaberrimo, pappo biseriali setis plurimis insequilongis scabridis apice barbellatis. 
Has. Northern and Middle Island. Dusky Bay, Forster. Mount Egmont, 6000 feet, Diefenbach. 
Milford Sound, Zyall. 
This is a remarkably leathery, thick-leaved, and very robust plant, every part except the upper side of the leaf 
covered with a dense, appressed, whitish or buff-coloured, woolly coat. Zeaves large and spreading, on long petioles, 
broadly rounded, ovate, more or less deeply cordate, blunt, quite entire, 3-7 inches long. Corymbs terminal, much 
branched, many-headed ; branches very stout, erect, leafy. Involuere 5 inch long; scales very thick, erect. Ray 
florets with short ligule or none. Achenia quite smooth, compressed, 13 lin. long. Pappus longer than the ache- 
nia, of two rows of unequal scabrid hairs, with bearded, thickened tips. Receptacle pitted.— This and the two fol- 
lowing species are very closely allied indeed, and are remarkable for their very robust habit and thick leathery foliage. 
Dr. Dieffenbach’s Mount Egmont specimens are in bud only, but appear to belong to this species. 
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