Helichrysum.] xxxix. COMPOSITAE. 313 



SOUTH Island: Marlborough: Kaikoura Mountains, McDonald. Upper Awatere, Sinclair! 

 D. Bough I Medway Creek, T. K. 3,500ft. 



One of the most remarkable plants in the flora, and one of the rarest. I made careful search 

 for the plant in various parts of the district, but only found it in a single station, which is doubtless 

 the place where it was first discovered. 



14. H. pauciflorum, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z.I, xxvii. (1894) 351. Root- 

 stock woody. Stems 4in.— 7in. high, excessively branched and woody at the 

 base. Branches with the leaves about ^in. in diameter. Leaves closely im- 

 bricating, oblong or oblong-spathulate with rather broad bases, clothed with 

 silvery- wMte tomentum on both surfaces; margins slightly recurved. Heads 

 solitary, almost hidden amongst the terminal leaves; involucres turbinate; invo- 

 lucral bracts lanceolate, acute, scarious, sparingly silky at the "base, scarcely 

 exceeding the florets. Female florets 3—4. Disk-florets 8—9, tubular, 5-toothed. 

 Achene pubescent or hispid, with a thickened ring at the base. Pappus-hairs 

 free, slightly thickened upwards. 



SOUTH Island: Canterbury: Craigieburn Mountains, 3,000ft., Z/. Cockayne I 



A remarkable plant, bearing the closest external resemblance to H. grandiceps, but differing 

 in the total absence of the conspicuous woolly bracts so characteristic of that species, and in the 

 sessile solitary heads deeply sunk amongst the apical leaves. 



15. H. Leontopodium, Hook. /., Fl. N.Z. i. 141, t. 37b. Slightly 

 woody at the base. Stems much branched, decumbent or ascending, 3in.— 6in. 

 high. Leaves Jin.— fin. long, flat, densely imbricated, erect, rarely patent or 

 reflexedj striate, linear-oblong or lanceolate, acute or subacute, evenly clothed 

 with silvery appressed tomentum on both surfaces. Peduncles terminal, clothed 

 with silvery foliaceous imbi'icating bracts. Heads numerous, forming a dense 

 capitulum subtended by 10—15 ovate or ovate-oblong bracts, densely woolly, 

 obtuse, Jin.— Jin. long ; involucres ^^in. long ; involucral bracts erect, linear- 

 lanceolate, acute, scarious, woolly at the back, shining on the inner surface. 

 Female florets few. Disk-florets tubular, 5-toothed. Achene silky. Pappus- 

 hairs scabrid and slightly thickened upwards. — Gnaphalium Colensoi, Hook, f., 

 Handbk. 154. 



NOHTH Island : Mount Hikurangi, Bast Cape, and Euahine Range, Colenso. Tararua 

 Range, Budden ! H. Travers ! SOUTH Island ; Nelson : Mount Arthur, Bryant ! Raglan Moun- 

 tains and mountains above the Wairau Gorge, Gheeseman ! Tarndale, Sinclair ! Mountains above 

 the Rainbow, Bryant ! 3,000ft. to 6,000ft. Jan., Feb. 



A beautiful plant, distinguished from the next species by the lanceolate leaves and larger 

 heads. 



16. H. grandiceps, Hook. /., Handbk. 154. Tufted, woody at the base. 

 Stems mostly slender, lin.— 7in. high, decumbent and ascending. Leaves 

 clothed on both surfaces with white silvery tomentum, densely imbricating, 

 Jin.— Jin. long, obovate-spathulate, flat or the tips recurved. Peduncles ter- 

 minal, solitary, usually leafy to the tips, but the leaves shorter than those below. 

 Heads and bracts similar to H. Leontopodium, but the female florets are more 

 numerous and the teeth of the disk-florets are more acute. Achene puberulous. 



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