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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, l^-"-2" in diameter, 

 with snow-white rays and rich purple disc, 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 the 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 Euapuke, etc. 



Cotula traillii, n. s. A handsome littoral species, plentiful near the Neck. 

 Allied to G. 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 Eakiaua. 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 f"-l" 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. 



