344 XXXIX. COMPOSITAE. [Senecio. 



13. S. Pottsii, J. F. Armst. in Trans. N.Z.I, iv. (1871) 290. A small 

 slender sufBruticose species, with decumbent flexuose branches^ 3in.-6in. long. 

 Branches, petioles, and leaves beneath clothed with white cottony tomentum. 

 Leaves Jin.— lin. long, ovate or spathulate, crenate, glabrate or glabrous above ; 

 petioles short. Heads solitary, on slender bracteate peduncles ^in. long, tur- 

 binate ; involucral bracts 15-20, linear, spreading, obtuse, tomentose. 



SOUTH Island : Mount JoUie, Rangitata district, 4,500ft., W. Gray and J. F. Armstrong. 

 I have not seen specimens. 



14. S. bifistulosus, Hook. /., Fl. N.Z. i. 144. An erect much branched 

 shrub, 1ft.— 2ft. high. Bark pale, closely marked with the scars of fallen 

 leaves. Leaves densely crowded near the tips of the branchlets, spreading, 

 lin. long, j'gin. broad, narrow-linear, sessile, obtuse or subacute, woolly beneath 

 and revolute to the glabrous midrib except a woolly line on each side, the folded 

 margin slightly and irregularly constricted so as to appear crenate. Peduncles 

 2in.— 4in. long, terminal, on short branchlets with numerous imbricating leaf like 

 bracts. Heads solitary, IJin. broad; involucral bracts few, Jin. long, broad, 

 herbaceous, slightly woolly at the back. Achene short, obscurely ribbed, gla- 

 brous. Pappus very soft. — Handbk. 161. 



SOUTH Island : Dusky Bay, Lyall, Hector and Buchanan ! Chalky Bay (identified in the 

 absence of flowers). 1,500ft. to 2,500ft. 



I have copied Hooker's description of the flower-heads, my specimens being much too young. 



15. S. Hectori, Buck, in Trans. N.Z.I, v. (1872) 348, vi. t. 23. An 

 erect sparingly branched shrub, 6ft.— 12ft. high. Branches stout, ascending. 

 Leaves mostly near the tips of the branches, membranous, pubescent or thinly 

 tomentose beneath, 6in.— 12in. long or more, 2in.— 4in. broad, broadly lanceolate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, acute, scabrid or scaberulous above, 

 shortly dentate, pinnate or pinnatifid at the very base ; segments Jin.— Jin. long, 

 linear, acutely toothed ; petiole short, stout, slightly sheathing. Panicle ter- 

 minal, corymbose, 6in.— 12iu. long or more, slender, clothed with short dense 

 glandular pubescence. Heads lin.— 2Jin. in diameter, broadly campanulate ; 

 involucral bracts 2-seriate, glandular-pubescent, the outer lanceolate, acute, the 

 inner oblong-lanceolate, with broad naked margins. Receptacle alveolate. 

 Ray-florets 8-12; rays broad, spreading, white. Disk -florets numerous; 

 limb campanulate, 5-toothed, shorter than the tube. Achene linear, grooved, 

 glabrous. Pappus-hairs long and scabrid. 



SOUTH Island : Nelson : mountains between Riwaka and Takaka, T. K. GoUingwood and 

 Wangapeka, Travers. Source of the Takaka River, Upper Motueka and its tributaries, Cheeseman I 

 Valley of the Buller from the Mangles Gorge to the luangahua Junction, T. K. Westland : left 

 bank of the Grey, T. K. 200ft. to 3,000ft. Jan., Feb. 



A magnificent species, distinguished from all others by the membranous leaves, pinnate or 

 pinnatifid at their base. 



16. S. Kirkii, Hook. f. MS. An erect glabrous sparingly branched 

 shrub, 6ft.-12ft. high. Branches rather stout, brittle. Leaves 2in.-l.in. long, 

 Jin.-ljin. broad, lanceolate or oblong to ovate-oblong or ovate-rhomboid, acute 



