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white tomentum beneath. Heads numerous, in erect terminal panicles 4in.— 

 9in. long, sparingly leafy ; rhachis, pedicels, and involucres glandular or glandu- 

 lar-pubescent ; pedicels short; involueral bracts about 12, linear, obtuse. 

 Female florets about 12; rays narrow, contorted. Disk-florets 20—30; limb 

 campanulate, 5-lobed. Anthers with short tails. Achenes subulate, grooved, 

 glabrous. Pappus short, dirty white, scabrid. 



HEREKOPERE Island, Foveaux Strait, and THE SNARES. Dec, Jan. 



The finest speoies of the genns, and well worthy of the distinguished botanist whose name 

 it hears. It is one of the rarest plants in the world, being restricted to the two rocky islands named 

 above. S. Stewartme, J. B. Armst. in Trans. N.Z.I, xiii. 339, is probably this speoies badly 

 described ; the flowers are unknown, and the leaves are said to be " linear-lanceolate." 



22. S. laxifolius, Buck, in Trans. N.Z.I, ii. (1869) 89. A spreading 

 shrub, 1ft.— 2ft. high. Branchlets, petioles, leaves beneath, and inflorescence 

 clothed with downy or short cottony tomentum. Leaves close-set, lanceolate or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, subacute, lin.— 2Jiu. long, fin. broad; 

 petioles very slender, shorter than the blade, entire ; midrib slightly pubescent 

 above, prominent on both surfaces. Panicle terminal, very open, usually leafy 

 below. Branches and peduncles very slender, wiry, downy-pubescent, bracteo- 

 late. Heads few, cylindric-campanulate, Jin.— fin. in diameter ; involueral 

 bracts about 13—15, close-set, downy pubescent or tomentose. Receptacle 

 alveolate. Rays few, narrow, spreading. Disk-florets as in S. Greyii, but the 

 anthers are tailless. Achenes shortly stipitate, slightly compressed, 4-angled 

 and grooved, glabrous. 



SOUTH Island : Nelson : Mount Rintoul, above the Rainbow, Bryant ! Wairau Gorge, 

 Cheeseman. Spencer Mountains, Oibbs I Discovery Peaks, Travers I Fowler's Pass, T. E. 

 3,000ft. to 5,000ft. Jan., Feb. 



Closely allied to S. Oreyii, but distinguished by the small thin close- set leaves, slender 

 panicle, eglandular involucres, and glabrous slightly compressed achenes. The name is singularly 

 inappropriate ; it was originally written " laxiflorus," but. assumed its present form through a 

 typographic error. 



23. S. Greyii, Hook. /., Fl. N.Z. i. 148, t. 38. A spreading shrub, 

 2ft.— 8ft. high. Branchlets, petioles, and leaves beneath densely clothed with 

 appressed white cottony tomentum. Leaves IJin.— 3in. long, Jin.— IJin. broad, 

 oblong or ovate-oblong, rounded at both ends, coriaceous, entire, sometimes 

 unequal at the base ; petioles slender, Jin.— 1 Jin. long ; midrib prominent below, 

 glabrate above. Corymbs terminal, 2in.— Sin. broad; bracts foliaceous. Pedicels 

 slender, with one or two linear bracteoles, glandular-pubescent. Heads numerous, 

 broadly campanulate, fin. in diameter; involueral bracts about 15, membranous, 

 glandular-pubescent, acute. Receptacle corrugated. Outer florets with broad 

 spreading rays, J-in.- Jin. long. Disk-florets with a shortly 4-toothed campanu- 

 late limb, equalling the tube. Anthers shortly tailed. Achenes narrow-linear, 

 silky. Pappus-hairs rigid, in several series. — Handbk. 164. 



NORTH Island : from Cape Tenerifie, Pahou River, to Maungatiri Creek, Cape Palliser, 

 Colenso, T. K. Sea-level to 1,500ft. 



A rare and beautiful speoies, distinguished from S. laxifolius by the larger leaves, dense 

 corymbs, glandular-pubescent heads, and silky achenes. 



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