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or obtuse, cuueate at base, entire or sinuate-toothed ; petiole short, slender. 

 Corymbs terminal, 5in.— Sin. in diameter or more ; lower bracts foliaceous ; 

 pedicels slender, lin.— Sin. long, bracteolate. Heads numerous, broadly cam- 

 panulate, IJin.— 2in. in diameter; involucral bracts 2-seriate, broad, linear, 

 membranous, acute, the inner linear- oblong, with scarious margins. Receptacle 

 flat, alveolate. Rays few, white, distant, spreading, nearly lin. long; tube very 

 short. Disk-florets with a campanulate 5-cleft limb, much shorter than the 

 slender tube. Achene linear, slender, grooved, glabrous, slightly thickened 

 upwards. Pappus-hairs long and rigid, scarcely scabrid. — S. glastif alius , Hook, 

 f., Fi. N.Z. i. 147, t. 39; Handbk. 161 (not of L. f., Supp. 373). Solidago 

 arborescens, A. Cunn., Precurs. n. 435. Cineraria glastifolius, Banks and Sol, 

 MSS. and Icon. 



NORTH Island : in woods from the North Cape to Cook Strait ; often epiphytic. Sea-level to 

 2,400ft. Oct. to June. 



A noble plant. The corymbs are sometimes highly compound, 3ft. in diameter. Epiphytic 

 specimens sometimes form a dome-shaped head, 12ft.-20ft. in diameter, the leaves being completely 

 hidden by the snow-white flowers. A few reflexed braoteoles are sometimes developed at the base of 

 the involucre. 



17. S. SCiadophilus, Raoul in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. III. ii. (1844) 119. 

 A climbing shrub with slender flexuose branches, 2ft. -20ft. high, glabrous or 

 pubescent. Leaves fin. -lin. long, membranous, orbicular or orbicular-ovate, 

 ■coarsely dentate, rarely sparingly pubescent beneath ; petiole slender, longer or 

 shorter than the blade. Heads broadly campanulate, ^in. in diameter, in few- 

 flowered corymbs forming an elongated terminal panicle. Peduncles and pedicels 

 slender, puberulous or pubescent. Involucral bracts 6—8, lanceolate, subacute ; 

 margins broad, scarious. Receptacle convex. Rays 4—6, yellow, revolute, 

 Jin. long. Disk-florets 8—10; mouth deeply 5-lobed. Achene grooved, glabrate 

 or hispid. Pappus-hairs in several series, denticulate. — Choix 21, t. 18; Hook, f., 

 Fl. N.Z. i. 150; Handbk. 161. 



SOUTH Island : local. Nelson : Wairoa Gorge, Bryant ! Riwaka, Rev. F. H. Spencer I 

 Canterbury: Banks Peninsula, Baoul. Alford Forest, Enys I Peel Forest, W. Barker ! Otago : 

 Dunedin, Petrie ! Otago Heads and Saddle Hill, Thomson ! Sea-level to 2,300ft. Jan. to April. 



18. S. perdicioides, Hook. /., Fl. N.Z. i. 149. An erect bushy shrub, 

 2ft.— 6ft. high. Branchlets pubescent, very numerous, slender, striated, scarred 

 with the marks of the fallen leaves. Leaves glabrous, alternate, fin.— 2in. long 

 or more, on slender petioles, membranous, ovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, serrate 

 or crenate, obtuse or rounded at the apex. Heads in terminal leafy corymbs. 

 Peduncles and pedicels slender, glabrate or pubescent. Involucres cylindric, 

 turbinate in fruit ; involucral bracts herbaceous, oblong, obtuse, with rather 

 broad scarious margins. Receptacle very narrow, pitted. Ray-florets 2, yellow, 

 ligule as long as the tube, broad, 3-toothed. Disk-florets 7—8 ; limb funnel- 

 shaped, deeply 5-lobed. Achene oblong-subulate, grooved. Pappus-hairs 2- 

 seriate, scabrid. — Handbk. 161. S. multinerve, Col. in. Trans. N.Z.I, xxv. 

 (1892) 330. Perdiceum senecioides, Banks and Sol. MSS. 



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