Raoulia.] XXXIX. COMPOSITAE. 305 



subacute or obtuse, glabrous. Receptacle conical, pubescent, scarcely pilose. 



Florets 10—13 ; 2—1 female. Disk-florets with a shortly campanulate mouth, 



5-toothed. Achene silky. Pappus-hairs thickened upwards, barbellate. 



SOUTH Island : Otago : Lake district, Hector and Buchanan I Mount St. Bathan's, Mount 

 Pisa, Old Man Range, Ben Lomond, &o., Pctrie I 4,500ft. to 6,000£t. Jan. 



Var. mollis, Buob. MS. Leaves laxly imbrioite, cottony at the base, broader, softer, more 

 obtuse and spreading. Heads smaller. Florets 6-8. Aohenes faintly ribbed, glabrous. Mount St. 

 Bathan's, Petrie I 



This pretty species has the habit of B. Haastii, but wibh more robust branches and silvery 

 leaves. It is included in J. B. Armstrong's list of Canterbury plants, but his specimens belong to 

 B. australis, var. hUescens. 



10. R. grandiflora, Hook. /., Fl. N.Z. i. 136, t. 36b. stems mostly 

 simple, lin. high or more, densely tufted, erect, forming small patches with 

 strong wiry roots. Stem with the leaves ^in.— Jin. in diameter. Leaves densely 

 imbricating all round the stem, ^in.— Jin. long, clothed with shining silvery 

 tomentum, ovate-subulate, cottony at the base, rigid, striate or grooved beneath. 

 Heads Jin.— fin. in diameter, sunk amongst the apical leaves ; receptacle convex, 

 hispid ; involucral bracts in 2 series, linear-oblong, the outer few, scarious, 

 short, the inner white, spreading, subacute or acute, Jin. long. Florets 25—30, 

 5—10 female, the remainder hermaphrodite, tubular; mouth campanulate. 

 Anthers with rather long tails. Achene silky. Pappus-hairs thickened towards 

 the tip. — Handbk. 150. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands: not unfrequent in mountain districts from the East Cape to 

 Southland. 3,000ft. to 6,300ft. Jan. 



It is impossible to separate this and other fine species from Helichrysum except by habit. 



11. R. Petriensis, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z.I, ix. ^876) 549. Laxly or 

 densely tufted. Stems 2in.— Sin. long, prostrate or suberect. Branches lin.— 

 l^in. long, ascending or erect. Leaves laxly imbricate, about -^qIh. broad, 

 coriaceous, broadly spathulate, erect patent, tips rounded, recurved, nerveless, 

 clothed above with appressed white tomentum, greenish below. Heads Jin.— 

 Jin. in diameter, sessile amongst the apical leaves ; involucral bracts in 2 series, 

 the inner scarious, linear, obtuse, a few with very short white radiating tips. 

 Receptacle conical. Florets about 40 ; female filiform, 8—12. Disk-florets very 

 narrow, tubular ; mouth shortly campanulate, 5-toothed. Achene faintly striate, 

 glabrous or puberulous. Pappus-hairs thickened upwards. 



SOUTH Island : Otago : Mount Ida and Mount St. Bathan's, Petrie I 4,000ft. to 5,000ft. 

 Jan. 



A beautiful species, best distinguished by the recurved leaves, conical receptacle, and 

 numerous florets. 



12. R. rubra, Buck, in Trans. N.Z.I, xiv. (1881) 349,' t. 30, /. 2. 

 Densely tufted, forming hemispherical cushions or patches 6in.— 12in. in 

 diameter and 4in.-8in. high. Branches with the leaves ^in.-Jin. in diameter. 

 Leaves in many series, densely imbricating, Jin. long, broadly obovate-spathulate, 

 rounded at the tips, rather membranous, the upper portion thickly clothed on 

 both surfaces with long hairs slightly projecting beyond the margins, naked at 



