300 XXXIX. COMPOSITAE. {Gnapholmm . 



2 series, erect, linear^ hyaline, shining, with pale erect tips. Florets not seen." 

 — Doubtfully referred to Raoulia Planchoni, Hook. f. in Gen. PI. ii. 307. 



SOUTH Island : " Nelson Mountains, Sinclair. Wairau and Clarence Valleys, 3,500£t., 

 Travers." 



I have copied the above from the Handbook, not having seen New Zealand specimens. The 

 plant has not been collected since its original discovery, nearly fifty years ago. 



9. G. japonicum, Thunb., Fl. Jap. 311. Annual, erect, Ift.-ljft. 

 high. Stems stiff, rather slender, usually branched, more or less tomentose. 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate or oblong-spathulate, sessile or the lower petiolate, 

 glabrous or glabrate above, white with cottony tomentum beneath. Heads small, 

 ^in.— Jin. long, aggregated in dense globose fascicles, usually subtended by 

 3—6 linear spreading foliaceous bracts, axillary or terminal ; the terminal heads 

 sometimes |^in. in diameter on long naked peduncles, the axillary smaller on short 

 peduncles ; involucres oblong, densely clothed with white wool at the base ; 

 involucral bracts erect, hyaline, linear, the outer obtuse, the inner acute. 

 Outer florets numerous. Disk-florets 1—3. Achene slightly compressed, glabrous. 

 Pappus-hairs slender, almost free at the base. — Miq., Prolus. Fl. Jap. 109; 



F. Muell., Fragm. v. 150; Benth., Fl. Austr. iii. 653. G. involucratum, 



G. Forst., Prod. n. 291 ; A. Rich., Fl. Nouv.-Zel. 241 ; A. Cunn., Precurs. n. 453 ; 

 Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 139; Handbk. 155. G. lanatum, G. Forst., Prod. n. 290; 

 A. Cunn., Precurs. n. 452. G. virgatum, Banks and Sol. MSS. 



KERMADBO Islands and the North Cape to Southland; STEWART Island; CHATHAM 

 Islands. Sea-level to 2,500ft. Nov. to Jan, Also in Norfolk and Lord Howe's Island, Australia, the 

 Eastern Archipelago, and Japan. 



A common weed. 



10. G. CoUimim, Lab., Nov. Holl. PI. ii. 44, t. 189. Perennial, emitting 

 scions ; 2in.— 7in. high. Leaves lanceolate-spathulate, acuminate, the lower 

 petiolate, cottony on both surfaces or glabrate or glabrous above. Heads 

 smaller and less compact than in G. japonicum, with fewer subtending bracts 

 or ; involucres broader. Florets and achenes similar to the preceding, or the 

 achenes puberulous. — DC, Prod. vi. 235; Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 139; Handbk. 

 155; Benth., Fl. Austr. iii. 654. G. simplex, A. Rich., Fl. Nouv. Zel. 237; 

 A. Cunn., Precurs. n. 451. 



Var. obscuFum. Forming matted grey patches Jin.-lin. high. Leaves radical or cauline, 

 Jin.-|in. long, linear, glabrate above, grey beneath. Scape when present leafy. Head solitary or 

 2-4, in terminal fascicles; involucral bracts 3-10, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, scarious. Achene linear, 

 not compressed. Pappus-hairs cohering at the base. 



Var. monocephalum. Leaves all radical, Jin. long, obtuse or acute. Head solitary, sessile 

 or sometimes on a slender filiform scape Jin.-liu. high in fruit. 



KEBMADEC Islands, and North Cape to STEWART Island; CHATHAM Islands. Sea-level 

 to 4,500ft. Jan. to March. Also in Australia. Var. obscurum and var. monocevhalum. Broken River 

 Basin, 2,000ft. to 3,000ft., T. K. - 



In luxuriant forms the heads are sometimes crowded on the upper part of the scapes. 

 Resembles G. -purpurmm in habit, but may be distinguished by the broader involucres and narrower 

 and more acute leaves, This species is united with O. japonicum by P, von Mueller, 



