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to be confined to exposed portions of the coast on both sides of the 
island, and to the adjacent islets, but has not been observed north of 
Paterson’s Inlet. It varies in size from a small shrub six feet high 
to a tree of twenty feet, with a stout trunk and compact dome-shaped 
head. The leaves are of a deep glossy green, excessively coriaceous, 
lanceolate-acuminate with curious indurated obtuse teeth, white with 
closely appressed tomentum beneath. Head solitary, 13"-2" in diameter, 
with snow-white rays and rieh purple dise, carried on stout foliaceous 
peduncles crowded at the tips of the branches. It is not easy to con- 
ceive of a grander floral display than is afforded by a fine specimen of 
this plant when viewed from above. The regular outline of tie head, 
the glossy green of the leaves, which, when stirred by the wind, 
show the white tomentum beneath; the snowy rays and dark 
purple discs of the myriad flower-heads form a never-tiring source 
of attraction, while a grateful aromatic perfume is constantly ex- 
haled. 
Olearia traillii, T. Kirk. A noble species of sparing occurrence on Stewart 
Island, but found also on Puyseygur Point. 
Brachycome pinnata, Hook. f. A small but elegant species discovered by 
Dr. Lyall at Port William, but not observed elsewhere until its recent 
discovery on the Canterbury Plains. 
Brachycome thomsonii, T. Kirk. The largest New Zealand species. 
Common near the sea on Stewart Island, and on Ruapuke, ete. 
Cotula traillii, n.s. A handsome littoral species, plentiful near the Neck. 
Allied to C. squalida, Hook. f. 
Senecio muelleri, T. Kirk. A fine species, allied to S. huntii, F. Muell., 
of Pitt Island. Only known on Herekopere Island, South Cape Island, 
and the Snares. 
? Raoulia goyeni, T. Kirk. A small species only known at present from 
Mount Anglem and Rakiaua. Flowers not seen. 
Dracophyllum pearsonii, n. s. I am indebted to Mr. Pearson for a much- 
branched specimen of a Dracophyllum, collected either on Codfish Island 
or in Chew-tobacco Bay. The plant is evidently erect, the leaves 
about 1” long are close-set and densely imbricating, appressed to the 
branches, which, with the leaves, are about 2"-1"' diameter. Flowers . 
not seen. The habit differs so widely from that of any other species 
known to me, that I venture to describe it provisionally in the absence 
of flowers, and have great pleasure in attaching the name of its dis- 
coverer, to whom I am greatly indebted for numerous specimens of 
Stewart Island plants, 
