346 XXXIX. COMPOSITAE. [Senecio. 



Var. dlstinctus (sp.), Col. in Trans. N.Z.I, xxvii. 390! Leaves oblong-lanceolate, ljin.-2in. 

 long, fin. broad, narrowed at both ends, deeply crenate-denbate, sometimes waved. 



NOBTH Island : from Hicks Bay and Bast Gape to Mahia Peninsula. Nov. ko Jan. 



19. S. myrianthos, Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z.I, vii. (1874) 348. A shrub 

 or small tree, 6ft.-15ft. hi^h, with dark bark. Branchlets gkbrate or young 

 leaves thinly clothed with buff tomentum. Leaves alternate, 3in.— 6in. long, 

 liu.— Sin. broad, membranous, lanceolate oblong or elliptic lanceolate, acute or 

 acuminate, narrowed towards the unequal or slightly cordate base, irregularly 

 dentate, white with thinly appressed tomentum beneath; petioles lin.— 2in. long. 

 Panicles slender, terminal, lax, sometimes leafy, glandular-pilose, 12iu.— 18in. 

 long. Pedicels slendel-, bracteolate. Heads numerous, Jin. long, obconic ; 

 involucral bracts 8, glabrous or glabrate, rather shorter than the florets, narrow- 

 linear, with shining margins, obtuse or acute, with few bractlets at the base. 

 Receptacle narrow, shortly alveolate. Rays about 6, shorter than the tube, 

 broad, white. Disk-florets Q—7 ; tube short ; mouth long, campanulate, deeply 

 5-lobed. Anthers very shortly tailed. Pappus-hairs 1-seriate, denticulate. 

 Achenes oblong, grooved, shortly hispid. — S. Cheesemanii, Hook. f. in Hook. 

 Ic. PI. 1201 (1877) . 



NORTH Island : in river gorges between the Puru and Kaueranga Greeks, Thames Goldfield, 

 Cheesemanl Nov., Deo. 



A beautiful species, easily recognised by its membranous leaves, narrow elongated panicles; 

 and white florets. The leaves are sometimes lobulate. 



20. S. Huntii, F. Muell., Veg. Chath. Isds. 23, t. 3. A shrub or small 

 round-headed tree, 6ft.— 20ft. high, more or less viscid and glandular-pubescent 

 in all its parts. Branchlets marked with the scars of fallen leaves. Leaves 

 close-set, 2in.— 3in. long or more, Jin.— lin. broad, lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, 

 acute or obtuse, sessile, glabrous or clothed beneath with thin fulvous tomen- 

 tum, often downy above ; margins subrevolute, entire ; midrib prominent 

 beneath. Panicle terminal, subcorymbose. Sin. —Sin. broad. Heads numerous, 

 on long slender hirsute glandular pedicels, broadly campanulate ; involucral 

 bracts 12—13, linear-oblong, usually obtuse, villous at the tips. Ray-florets 

 few ; ligula broad, about as long as its tube. Disk-florets numerous ; limb 

 campatiulate, 5-lobed. Achene grooved, glabrous. — Hook, f., Handbk. 734. 



Var. oblongifollus. Leaves elliptio-oblong, 3Jin. long, IJin. broad, rounded at the tips, sessile 

 by a broad base, flat. Panicle broader. Bays rather narrow. 



CHATHAM Islands^ Mair ! H. Travers I Cox ! Bautini. Dec. to Veh. 



I am greatly indebted to my friend Mr. Cox for valuable specimens of this and other Chatham 

 Island plants. 



21. S. Muelleri, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z.I, xv. (1882) 359 {not of Kegel, 

 Ind. Sem. Hart. Petrop. (1863) 31]. A shrub or small tree, 6ft.-26ft. high; 

 trunk 8in.-24in. in diameter, with spreading cicatricose branches. Leaves 

 3in.-7in. long, ljin.-2jin. wide, gland-dotted when fresh, crowded near the 

 tips of the branches, slightly coriaceous when fresh, broadly lanceolate or lanceo- 

 late-acuminate, narrowed into a broad base, sessile, clothed with thin appressed 



