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with a few pubescent brown-tipped bracteoles at the base, representing a 

 second series. Pappus hairs numerous, slender, very soft. Achenes few, ^-^ 

 inch long, linear, hispid, slender, indistinctly grooved, not angled, with a 

 short discoid top. 



Hab. — McKenzie Country. — Mr. J. F. Armstrong, December, 1877. 



A singular little plant, differing from all other New Zealand species of 

 the genus in its diminutive size and annual character, also in the solitary 

 heads. 



Senecio huclianani, J.B.A. 



A small dense-growing shrub about 3 feet high ; the branches, petioles 

 and leaves below, entirely 'covered with closely-appressed light brown 

 tomentum. Petioles about 1 inch long, tomentose. Leaves ovate or obovate 

 or oblong, obtuse or sub-acute, entire, thickly coriaceous, 1-2 inches long ; 

 when young covered on both surfaces with brown tomentum ; when old 

 glabrous above. Veins distinctly reticulated, often of a silvery white colour. 

 Heads oblong or obconic, yellow, ^-^ inch diameter, situated on the branches 

 of a terminal or lateral, tomentose, leafy panicle, which is about 4 inches long 

 and contains 6-10 heads. Peduncles leafy, simple or forked, bracteate, tomen- 

 tose. Involucral scales, in one row, very thick, and purple at the tips, 

 covered on the outside with white cottony hairs. Ray absent. Anthers 

 thickened at the tips. Pajojius hairs white, thickened upwards, slender, 

 scabrid. Achene grooved, glabrous. Recejjtacle pitted. — " New Zealand 

 Country Journal," Vol. III., p. 56. 



Hab. — Mount Egmont, Arthur's Pass, Kaikoura, and in Otago. I have 

 no hesitation in pronouncing this plant to be quite distinct from any other 

 Senecio, although it a]3pears to have been confounded with S. elcEagnifoUus 

 by Sir J. D. Hooker and other New Zealand authors. 

 Senecio stewartia, n.sp. 



Among a number of hving plants brought from Stewart Island by the 

 Kev. Mr. Stack, and kindly presented by him to the Christchurch Botanic 

 Garden, I find a fine new Senecio which has not yet flowered, but will pro- 

 bably prove quite distinct. I propose to attach the above name to it pro- 

 visionally, until I am able to furnish a better description. It has the habit 

 of S. huntii, F. Miieller, but is a much smaller plant. The leaves are about 

 three inches long, linear-lanceolate, narrower than in S. huntii, more 

 sharply acute, very obscurely serrated, without the obscure ribs of that 

 species, more finely reticulated above, and below wholly covered with loose 

 white tomentum, quite different fi-om the grey, closely appressed tomentum 

 of S. huntii. The leaves above are densely glandular dotted, in the young 

 state pubescent and viscid, glabrous and shining when old. The leaf scars 

 are larger and darker coloured than in S. huntii, If this should prove to be 



