350 XXXIX. COMPOSITAE. [Senecio. 



Fl. N.Z. t. 162. Brachyglottis rotundifolia, Forst., Char. Gen. 46; A. Cunn., 



Preours. n. 464. DC, Prod. v. 210. Cineraria rotundifolia, G. Forst., Prod. 



294 ; A. Rich., Fl. Nouv.-Zel. 254. 



SOUTH Island: Westland : Westport, W. Tmvnson I Jackson's Bay to Poveaux Strait. 

 STEWART Island and islands in Poveaux Strait ; abundant. Sea-level to almost 3,500ft. Puhe- 

 ritaiko. Dec, Jan. 



30. S. Bidwillii, Hook. /., Fl. N.Z. i. 150. A small robust shrub, 

 lft.-2ft. high. Branches, petioles, peduncles, and leaves beneath elothfed 

 with thickly appressed white tomentum. Leaves Jin.-liu. long, Jin.-fin. 

 broad, broadly oblong or elliptical-oblong, rounded at both extremities, usually 

 patent, excessively thick and coriaceous, brownish, glossy, glabrous above and 

 usually reticulate ; petiole ^in.-Jin. long, stout, articulated at the base. 

 Corymb fin.— 2in. long. Heads few or many ; pedicels short ; involucral bracts 

 about 8, spreading, thick and coriaceous, densely woolly. Receptacle convex. 

 Florets about 20 : female 4—5, rayless ; corolla-tube very short, truncate, 

 minutely 4-toothed ; style greatly exserted. Disk-florets with a long tube; 

 limb divided nearly to the base into 4 linear spreading lobes. Anthers very 

 shortly tailed. Achenes deeply grooved, glabrous. — Handbk. 162. 



NORTH Island : Hikurangi, East Cape, Euahine Range, Kaimanawa, Tongariro, Ngauruhoe, 

 Ruapehu, and Tararua Range, as far south as Mitre Peak and Mount Holdsworth, 2,500ft. to 5,500ft., 

 Golenso I Tryon ! Lee I Hill ! Jan. 



31. S. viridis, n. s. An erect sparingly-branched shrub, 2ft.— 4ft. high- 

 Young shoots slender, thinly tomentose. Leaves IJin.— 3in. long, §in.— lin- 

 broad, coriaceous but thin, green, glossy above, 3— 5-nerved, oblong-obovate, 

 rounded at the tip, narrowed towards the base, white with appressed tomentum 

 beneath ; petiole Jin.— fin. long. Corymb 3in.— 6in. long. Peduncles naked, 

 tomentose. Pedicels slender. Heads numerous, Jin. -Jin. long, campanulate; 

 involucral bracts 10—12, close-set, woolly. Receptacle flat. Female florets 

 about 6 ; corolla-tube truncate, 4-toothed, or with a minute ray. Disk-florets 

 less deeply divided than in S. Bidwillii. Achene grooved, glabrous. 



SOUTH Island : local ; mountains of Nelson and Marlborough, Bidwill, Rough I Discovery 

 Peaks, Travers I Amuri, T. K. Canterbury ; Bealey River, Arthur's Pass, and other localities in 

 North Canterbury, T. K. 2,300ft. to 5,000ft. Jan. 



Perhaps too close to S. Bidwillii to be altogether satisfactory, although the habit and foliage 

 difier yfidely, but the characters drawn from the reproductive organs, although slight, are remark- 

 ably constant. This plant was included under S. Bidwillii by Hooker, but his description appears 

 to have been drawn from Oolenso's Ruahine specimens. 



32. S. geminatus, T. Kirk. A small erect glabrous bushy species, 

 1ft.— 2ft. high, woody below, the tips of flowering-shoots apparently dying back 

 after flowering, much branched from the base. Branches brittle, slender, with 

 raised lines from the base of each leaf. Leaves ljin.-3in. long, Jin.— IJin. 

 broad, sessile, obovate-lanceolate or obovate-spathulate, acute or subacute, 

 serrate, subcoriaceous. Heads few, Jin.— Jin. in diameter, homogamous, on 

 slender geminate peduncles from the axils of the upper leaves or forming a las 



