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prominent below and densely covered with brown hairs; petioles 5-9 lines 
long, rather slender, brown, hairy, deeply channelled above, dilated at base 
but not decurrent. Flowers sub-terminal in long slender sub-corymbose 
and axillary panicles, 4 inches long, panicles and sub-panicles each with a 
single small obtuse densely-haired brown bracteole at base; heads few, 
broad, spreading, 4-5 lines diameter, rather distant, on slender pedicels 5-6 
lines long; involucral séales in three rows, brown with a dark mid-line, 
outer short sub-ovate, acute, densely hairy on the back, inner longest, linear, 
obtuse, glabrous on back, densely fimbriate at edges and tips; florets few, 
tubes glandular-pubescent, thickened downwards; florets of ray broadly 
lanceolate, tips obtuse and very slightly emarginate; stigmas much exserted, 
Jong, narrow, acute, spreading; pappus short, acute, dirty-white, tips 
recurved reddish ; receptacle small, convex, ridgy; achene very small, less 
than 1 line, nearly linear, broadest at top, sub-cylindrical and very slightly 
angled, very hairy. 
Hab. Woods, east side of the Ruahine Mountain range, County of 
Waipawa, North Island; January 1884: Messrs. H. Hill and A. 
Hamilton. 
Genus 14. Gnaphalium, Linn. 
1. Gnaphalium adherens, sp. nov. 
Plant a diffuse bushy perennial herb ; main stems woody, as thick as a 
goose-quill, climbing, adhering closely by long lateral rootlets to per- 
pendicular clayey cliffs. Branchlets sub-secund, patent, drooping, 9-14 
inches long, stoutish, covered with floccose silky hairs; leaves alternate, 
scattered, distant, 2 inches apart on stems, 14-21 inches long, 6-8 lines 
broad, obovate, acute, apiculate, sessile, half-clasping, margins entire, 
glabrous above, woolly below, with closely appressed floccose white hairs, 
membranaceous, flaccid, strongly tri-nerved, light green. Flowers terminal 
in loose bracteate corymbose panicles, 2-3 inches long, containing 12-18 
heads, mostly 3 heads-on each sub-panicle or lower peduncle ; peduncles 
and pedicels long, bracteolate, densely woolly like branchlets; bracts and 
bracteoles foliaceous, margins waved; heads 4 lines diameter; outer 
involueral scales densely floccosely silky ; inner involueral scales 2 lines 
long, linear, clawed, spreading, lamina white as ligulate florets but nar- 
rower, claw green shining thickened at base ; ligulate florets white, spread- 
ing acute and obtuse, laciniate-toothed at tips; pappus few, slender, scabrid, 
spreading, not thickened at tips; achenes very small, linear, somewhat 
subquadrangular, obtuse with a central depression or corona at base, 
glabrous : receptacle small 1 line diameter, flat, subdepressed, alveolar, full 
of circular holes with raised margins, 
