Gnapltalium.] 
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long, white, radiating, with short cottony claws ; receptacle plane ; florets 
numerous ; female in 2 or 3 series ; pappus hairs few, slender. Achene gla- 
brous. 
Middle Island : Massacre Bay, Ip all. A very handsome species, at once known by its 
robust habit and large leaves, but probably a variety of the following. 
5. G. trinerve, Forst.j — FI. N. Z. i. 138. Stem rather slender and 
branches 6-24 in. long, ascending, glabrous or cobwebby, produced, into 
bracteate peduncles. Leaves lax, uniform, flat, spreading or recurved, f-1 
in. long, obovate- or spathulate-lanceolate, acute or apiculate, faintly 3-nerved, 
glabrous above, white with oppressed wool below. Heads 3-5, corymbose at 
the ends of the produced, slender, peduncle-like branches, § in. diam. ; pe- 
dicels slender or short and stout; inner involucral scales numerous, white, 
radiating, clawed, £ in. long. Achene and pappus as in G. Lyollii. 
Middle Island: Dusky Bay, Forster; Milford Sound, Lyall ; Dunedin, on sand dunes, 
abundant, Lindsay , etc. The Ruahintf mountain plant referred to this in FI. N. Z., is, I 
am now sure, a var. of G. Keiiense. 
6. G. Keriense, A. Cunn. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 138. A very variable plant, 
smaller than either of the above. Stems prostrate, with slender or stout, 
ascending, leafy branches, 2-6 in. high, produced into bracteate peduncles. 
Leaves spreading, very variable, ^-2 in. long, -j^-i in. broad, from narrow- 
linear to oblong-spathulate or -lanceolate, acute, 1- rarely 3-nerved. Heads 
numerous, coiymbose, on cottony pedicels, like those of G. trinerve , but much 
smaller, ^ in. diam. — Helichrysum micrantlium, A. Cunn. in DC. Prodr. ; 
G. dealbatum, Forst. Prodr. ? 
Var. fi. linifolia. Stems erect. Leaves excessively narrow ; pedicels capillary. 
Northern Island: very abundant in moist places, falls of the Keri-Keri river, and else- 
where. Middle Island: near Nelson, Travers; Dusky Bay, Lyall; var. fi, banks of the 
Manawatu and Ruahine range, Colenso. 
7. G. (Helichrysum) Sinclairii, Hook.f., n.sp. A small, subalpine 
species ; stems and branches ascending, leafy, 2-4 in. high. Leaves close- 
set, spreading, in. long, \ broad, linear-oblong or obovate-spathulate, 
obtuse, densely covered with pale, cottony tomentum on both surfaces. 
Heads £ in. diam., in numerous, rounded, terminal, dense corymbs, |-1 in. 
across ; peduncles and pedicels short, densely cottony ; outer scales of invo- 
lucre cottony, inner shortly radiating ; female florets in 1 series ; pappus of 
few stout hairs, thickened towards the tip. Achene glabrous. 
Middle Island : Upper Awatere valley, Sinclair. Very closely allied to the Raoalia 
catipes of Tasmania, but the leaves are much smaller, and the heads not half the size, and 
much more numerous. 
8. G. filicaule, Hoolc.f.; — Helichrysum, FI. N. Z. i. 140. t. 36 B. 
Stems usually simple, very slender, flexuose, cottony, 6-10 in. high, termina- 
ting in a filiform peduncle. Leaves scattered, -g— i in. long, obovate-oblong, 
obtuse or apiculate, glabrous above, white and cottony beneath. Heads solitary, 
in. diam.; involucral scales numerous, linear, scarious ; outer cottony at 
the base ; receptacle small, convex ; pappus of very slender filiform hairs. 
Achene puberulous. 
Northern Island : dry hills towards the east coast ; Wairarapa valley, Cape Kidnapper, 
