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Branches short, with the leaves on i inch diameter, closely compacted, and 

 terminating on the surface in numerous small firm knobs. Leaves imbricating 

 in many series, ^ inch long, spathulate, rounded at top, membraneous, 

 1-nerved, with dense patches of pale blueish-green hairs on both surfaces 

 above the middle, and exceeding the tip of the leaf. Heads very small, 

 J^ inch diameter, 10-14-flowered ; flowers dark crimson, in two series, 

 inner bisexual, outer pistiliferous only, pistil sometimes 3-cleft, involucral 

 scales numerous, glabrous, narrow-linear and rounded at the entire tip, or 

 linear- spathulate with radiating tips. Pappus of few rigid, broad, or fiattish- 

 shaped hairs, thickened towards the tip, and incised along its length. 



Hah. — Mount Holdsworth, Tararua range. North Island, 4,500 feet alt., 

 1882. 



Plate XXX., fig. 2, plant nat. size; 2 a, leaf; 2 Z), floret; 2 c, scale; 

 2 d, pappus hair. 



This plant is closely allied to Raoulia eximia, Hook, fil., from the 

 Canterbury Mountains, and difficult to describe botanically as possessing 

 much difference, yet its smaller size and bright red fragrant flowers 

 present such contrasts as to claim for it a distinguishing name. This 

 is the first occasion on which the vegetable sheep, as this and other 

 species of Raoulia and Haastia are popularly named, have been collected in 

 the North Island, affording an additional link in connecting the alpine 

 floras of both islands. 



Haastia loganii, Buch., n.s. 



A small soft patch plant, forming Httle cushions on the ground or rocks, 

 6-12 inches across, and covered with soft, pale greenish-white wool, branches 

 with the leaves on ^ inch diameter. Leaves ^ inch long, entire, obovate or 

 oblong, rounded at the tip or slightly cuneate, membraneous, 3-nerved, the 

 nerves branching from near the bottom, recurved, arranged in several series, 

 and hidden by the soft woolly hairs, which form a patch on the inner sur- 

 face above the middle, and entirely covering the back. Heads ^ inch 

 diameter, 40-50-flowered, involucral scales numerous, in several series, 

 narrow-linear, obtuse, entire or with scarious tips, and with a small tuft of 

 hairs on the middle of the back. Florets reddish, of two series, bisexual 

 and pistiliferous, the first numerous, widening at the mouth, arms of style 

 short, anthers without tails, the second with the corolla very short, tubular, 

 mouth Granulate, styles with long exserted arms which are pappillose at the 

 tip ; pappus of 1 series of rigid hairs, free below, very much thickened at 

 the tip and often incised. Achene compressed, linear, and covered with 

 long silky hairs. 



Hab.—Mount Holdsworth, Tararua Range, North Island, 4,500 feet alt., 

 1882. 



