Brachycome.] XXXIX. COMPOSITAE. 259 



or triangular tips, slightly flattened, papillose outside. Achenes compressed, 



flat, with winged margins, or thick and obtusely tetragonous ; beak 0. Pappus 



of short scales or bristles or 0. 



All the New ZeaUnd species are taf ted perennial herbs, with either radical leaves and naked 

 scapes or with aapeiiding leafy stems, simple or branched. 



Besides the New Zealand species, which are all endemic, about 40 species are found in 

 Australia. 



Etym. From the Greek, signifying short and hair, in reference to the short pappus. 



Scapes simple, naked. 

 Minute. Leaves narrow-linear, entire, fin. long 

 Leaves linear-oblong, pinnatifid, uniform 

 Leaves oblong or obovate-spathulate, entire, lobed or rarely pinnatifid 



Stems branched, leafy. 

 Slender, 2in.-4in. high. Leaves 3-6-lobed . . 



Stout, excessively glandular. Leaves with broadly-winged petioles . . 

 Glabrous. Upper leaves reduced to bracts 

 Leaves linear-spathulate, entire, obscurely 3-nerved ; petioles sheathing 



1. B. lineata. (^) A minute glabrous species. Leaves 

 all radical, erect or spreading, narrow-linear, narrowed towards the base, which 

 is slightly expanded, Jin.-Jin. long, g^gin. broad, obtuse or subacute. Scapes 

 about lin. high in fruit, very slender. Heads j'g^in.— xg^in. in diameter ; invo- 

 lucral bracts 7—10, short, broad, rounded-ovate, scarious and almost hyaline, 

 ultimately with purple margins. Ray-florets few, exceeding the bracts ; tips 

 revolute. Disk-florets very short, dilated above, 4-toothed. Achenes very 

 short, compressed, cuneate or shortly obovate, not narrowed above. — Lageno- 

 phora linearis, Petrie in Trans. N.Z.I, xxv. (1893) 271. 



SOUTH Island : in grassy places by Te Auau Lake, Petrie I Jan. 



Mr, Petrie remarks that the scapes become elongated in fruit, and states that the achenes are 

 narrowed at both ends. The achenea with which he has kindly favoured me do not show this. 



2. B. pinnata, Hook. /., Handbk. 138. Rootstock branched, ascending. 

 Whole plant glabrous or minutely glandular-pubescent. Leaves all radical, 

 coriaceous, Jin.— l^in. long, narrow linear - oblong, |^in.— ^in. broad, rarely 

 broader above, closely pinnatifid ; segments suborbicular, entire, flat or con- 

 cave beneath. Scape very slender, naked, glandular-pubescent above, 2in.-6in. 

 long. Head Jin. in diameter; involucral bracts oblong, obtuse, with verv 

 narrow scarious erose margins. Achenes obovate, with thickened margins, 

 glabrous. Pappus or inconspicuous. — B. radicata, var. ^3, Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. 

 i. 127. 



SOUTH Island : remarkably local ; near Burnham and in other dry localities on the Canter- 

 bury Plains, T. E. STEWART Island, Lyall in Handbk. Dec, Jan. 



This species is included by Petrie in his catalogue of Otago plants (Trans. N.Z.I, xxviii., 1895, 

 560), but the specimens sent by him under this name are B. Sinclairii. The record for Stewart 

 Island has not been verified, and is extremely doubtful. It seems this plant was discovered by Lyall 



death. 



(J) The blank existed in the MS. that was in the printer's hands at the time of the author's 



