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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 scales 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 Kuahine 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, \\- 2J 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 12-13 

 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 

 involucral scales densely floccosely silky ; inner involucral 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, 



