2 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
Pirate 1002. 
TRAVERSIA BACCHAROIDES, Look. /f. 
CompositT#, § SENECIONIDER. 
T. baccharoides, Hook. f. Handb. N. Zeal. Fl. 164. 
Has. New Zealand, mountains of the Middle Island, Upper Awatere and 
irau valley, alt. 5000 ft., Stme/air, Hurumui Mo untains, Discovery 
Peaks, alt. 5500 ft., Travers. ’ Gorge of the Poulter, alt. 2200 ft., Haast. 
Fi s, glaberrimus, parce ramosus, subglutinosus, ramulis teretibus 
sulcatis flexuosis, inferne angulatis. Folia sparsa, ‘sessilia, decurrentia, 13-23 
poll. longa, obovato- spathulata, subacuta, obtuse serrata, basin versus fate: 
gerrima, coriacea, nervis tenuibus subflabellatis. Capitula eesioe: sr in 
tomis, bracteis paucis sparsis is linearibus auctis, ad 4 poll. diametro, erecta, flava: 
tis p 
flavi, 5-lobi, ~~ linearibus revolutis. Stamina exserta; yc lineares, 
ecaudatee. S/yli rami lineares, truncati, ayice papillosi. Achenium breve, 
enainens certs: costatum. Puppus 1-serialis, rigidus, scaber, albus. 
A remarkable plant, of obscure affinity, differing from Senecio in the very 
rigid scabrid pappus, and resembling in certain points the curious Juan Fer- 
nandez genera Balbisia and Robinsonia. The achenium is immature, and I 
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genera. I find a minute cordiform embryo in the cavity of the half-mature 
seed.—J. D. Hooker. 
Fig. 1. Floret. 2. Hair of pappus. 3. Single stamen. 4. Style-branches. 
PLATE 1003. 
HAASTIA PULVINARIS, J/ook. /. 
Composit#, § SENECLIONIDES. 
H. Se Hook. f. Handb. N. Zeal. Fi. 156. 
Has w Zealand, mountains of the Middle Island, Kaikora range, and 
Mowatt s Sone alt. 5000 ft., Sinclair. Discov ery Peaks, alt. 5800 ft., 
ver, 
Planta densissime cespitosa, pulvinos Ss Geena fulyos v. albidos, 3 ped. 
diametro, in montibus scopulosis monte ans. Caules densissime compacti, 
ramosi, cum foliis arctissime sortie $-2 alt. diametro, ramulorum 
apicibus mammieformibus. Folia x Dhoribatialite patentia, late obcuneata, 
