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broadly lanceolate-acuminate, or ovate-acuminate, narrowed into a broad 

 base, sessile, quite entire, densely clothed with white tomentum beneath. 

 Flowers in erect terminal panicles sparingly leafy, 4"-8" long ; branches 

 and involucre glandular or glandular pubescent : heads on short pedicels, 

 involucral leaves in one series : ray-florets 12-14, narrow, contorted : disc 

 florets about 20, perfect, regular, anthers with short tails. Achenes grooved, 

 pappus white, scab rid. 



Hob. Herekopere Island, T. Kirk ; South Cape Island. Not observed 

 on Stewart Island. 



The main stem of this handsome species is often from 8" to 12" in dia- 

 meter, branches distant, usually wide spreading and destitute of leaves 

 below. In all stages they are thickly marked with the scars of fallen 

 leaves. In the recent state the foliage is glossy and coriaceous, but these 

 characters disappear in drying. After a continuance of rainy weather the 

 tomentum becomes somewhat loose and gives a rugose appearance to the 

 lower surface of the leaves. The bracts are always membranous, and those 

 at the base of the panicles, which equal the ordinary leaves in size, are 

 more or less recurved. Most frequently the panicle is simple, but occasion- 

 ally its lower branches are compound ; after flowering, the main axis 

 becomes elongated and the panicle loses much of its original compactness. 

 The panicle is always glandular and more or less viscid. 



This fine plant approaches S. huntii of the Chatham Islands in habit, 

 cicatricose branches, foliage and leafy inflorescence : but the structure of 

 the flower allies it to S. sciadophihis and S. perdicioides, although its rays 

 are much longer and the heads much larger. The narrow contorted yellow 

 rays are widely different from the broad compact white rays of S. huntii : 

 in this respect the latter resembles S. glastifolius and S. hectori. 



Mr. Charles Traill of Stewart Island received living plants from the 

 natives several years ago and has had them under cultivation, but they 

 have not yet flowered. I collected the plant on sea-cliffs on Herekopere 

 Island and was informed by an intelligent half-caste that he had collected 

 it on South Cape Island. It does not appear to be known elsewhere, so 

 that it further resembles S. huntii of Pitt Island in being restricted to a 

 very limited area. 



New Zealand botanists are specially indebted to Baron von Mueller for 

 his excellent account of the vegetation of the Chatham Islands, so that I 

 have great pleasure in connecting his name with so striking a plant. 



