Brachy glottis.] xxxix. COMPOSITAE. 335 



Hook. f. in Loud. Journ. Bot. vi. (1847) 122. E. incuna, Turc. in Bull. Soc. 



Nat. Mosc. xxiv. (1851) II. 85, Senecio quadridenfatus, Labill, PI. Nov. HoU. 



ii. 48, t. 194; A. Ounn., Precurs. n. 461. S. angustifolius, Banks and Sol. 



MSS. and Icon. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : from the Three Kings Islands and North Gape to Southland. 

 CHATHAM Islands. Nov. to Jan. 



Var. lanceola. Radical leaves 2in.-5in. long, on long petioles, Jiu.-§in. broad, lanceolate, 

 irregularly toothed or serrate. Heads immature. SOUTH Island : Lynton Downs, Kaikoura, T. K. 

 Near Lincoln, T. K. Possibly a nevr species. Also in Australia. 



5. E. diversifolia, Petrie in Trans. N.Z.I, xix. (1887) 324. Slender, 

 erect, 1ft.— 2ft. high. Stems grooved, simple or sparingly branched, leafy 

 below. Leaves 2iD.— 4an. long, erect, oblong or linear-oblong, the lower on long 

 petioles, irregularly crenate-toothed or sinuate-toothed or the teeth rarely acute, 

 obtuse, puberulous beneath. The cauline leaves are narrow, sessile or petioled, 

 acute or acuminate, glabrate or slightly cottony. Heads small, forming a lax 

 irregular corymb; pedicels slender, minutely bracteolate ; involucral bracts 

 10—14, linear-subulate. Receptacle convex. Florets 20—40. Achenes linear- 

 oblong, grooved, pubescent or hispid, sometimes contracted at the neck. 



SOUTH Island : Central Otago, but rather local, Petrie ! The Bluff Hill, Enys I STEWART 

 Island, T. E. Nov. to Jan. 



6. E. glabrescens, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z.I, ix. (1877) 550 (not of 

 DC, Prod. vi. 295). Annual, erect, glabrous or glabrate, 1ft.— 3ft. high. Stem 

 grooved, simple or sparingly branched. Leaves membranous, 3in.— Bin. long, 

 lin.— IJin. broad, oblong or lanceolate-oblong, more or less pinnatifid or rarely 

 pinnate below with a large terminal segment, lobed, toothed, or the margins 

 sinnate^dentate, the lower petioled, the upper sessile with large toothed auTicles. 

 Heads laxly corymbose; involucral bracts about 12, linear-acute,' with scarious 

 margins. Florets about 20, all minutely toothed. Achenes linear, faintly 

 grooved, glabrous. 



SOUTH Island: not unfrequent in mountain woods from Marlborough to Southland. 

 STEWART Island. Jan., Feb. 



The achenes are longer than those of any other New Zealand species, and the leaves are often 

 purple beneath. 



21. BRACHYGLOTTIS, Forst. 



Heads heterogamous ; involucral bracts 1 -seriate, shining, scarious, linear, 

 obtusSj the outer minute. Receptacle narrow, alveolate. Marginal florets 

 female ; corolla irregularly lobed or 2-lipped, outer lip short, broad, inner 

 narrow, revolute. Disk-florets hermaphrodite, tubular ; mouth campanulate ; 

 anthers with short tails ; style-arms truncate, papillose. Achenes very short, 

 terete, papillose. Pappus-hairs 1-seriate. Shrubs or small trees, with tomen- 

 tose branches and large leaves clothed with milk-white tomentum beneath. 

 Heads very numerous, in large crowded much-branched panicles. 



The genus is endemic in the northern part of the colony. 

 Leaves dull. Involucres white, shining . . . . . . . . .. 1. B. repanda. 



Leaves larger, glossy. Involucres purplish, opaque . . . . . . . . 2. JS. Bangiora. 



