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[Senecio. 
involucral scales thick, linear, acute ; rays ^ - \ in. long ; anthers with short 
tails ; pappus of many series of rigid scabrid white hairs. A chene silky. 
Northern Island : from Pawahati, Cape Palliser, to Pahavva, in rocky and stony places, 
Colenso. A very beautiful plant. 
15. S. elseagnifolius. Hook. f. FI. N. Z. i. 150. t. 41. A small, ro- 
bust shrub, 6-8 ft. high ; branches stout and petioles and leaves beneath 
densely covered with an appressed smooth layer of dirty-white or buff tomen- 
tum. Leaves with stout petioles, 5-I in. long, obovate or lanceolate-oblong, 
obtuse, coriaceous, quite entire, glabrous and obscurely veined above. Panicle 
terminal, stout, branched, and involucres densely covered with thick buff 
wool. Heads ^ in. long, campanulate ; involucral scales very coriaceous 
and woolly ; ray 0 ; anthers tailed ; pappus rigid, scabrid, white. Achene 
grooved, pubescent. 
Northern Island: woods on the Ruahine mountains, Colenso: Mount Egmont, alt. 
6000 ft., Bieffenbach. Middle Island : Rangitata range and Mount Cook, alt. 3-4000 ft., 
Sinclair , Haast ; Otago, in the bush, rare, Hector and Buchanan. 
16. S. rotundifolius. Hook. f. FI. N. Z. i. 149. A small tree with 
very robust branches, covered as are the petioles, leaves below, and inflores- 
cence with buff tomentum. Leaves with stout petioles 1-3 in. long, blade 
3-6 in. diameter, orbicular, unequal or rounded or cordate at the base, very 
coriaceous, shining above with reticulate veins, margin tomentose. Corymbs 
terminal, short, close, much branched. Heads very numerous, cylindric- 
campanulate, \ in. long ; involucral scales very thick, woolly ; rays ex- 
tremely short ; anthers without tails ; pappus hairs rigid, scabrid, white. 
Achene glabrous, grooved. — Cineraria rotundifolia, Porst. 
Middle Island : Dusky Bay, Forster; Milford Sound, Lyall. Closely allied to the last, 
though differing in the large orbicular leaves and the glabrous achene. The Mount Egmont 
plant referred to this in El. N. Z. is certainly S. elaagnifolius. 
17. S. Bidwillii, Hook. f. FI. N. Z. i. 150. A small, very robust, 
alpine shrub. Branches, petioles, and leaves below densely covered with ap- 
pressed, whitish tomentum. Leaves shortly petioled, -5— 1 in. long, oblong 
or obovate-oblong, extremely thick and coriaceous, round at the tip, glabrous 
above, nerveless or reticulated; petioles | in. jointed on to the branch. 
Corymbs with many long-peduncled heads, sometimes abbreviated ; peduncles 
and heads with softer, more woolly tomentum than the leaves below. Heads 
campanulate, £ in. long ; involucral scales very thick ; rays few, very short ; 
anthers shortly tailed ; pappus hairs white, rigid, scabrid. Achene grooved, 
glabrous. 
Northern Island: Mount Hikurangi, and Ruahine range, Colenso. Middle Island: 
mountains of Nelson, alt. 6000 ft., Bidwill, Bough ; Discovery Peaks, alt. 5800 ft., Travers. 
18. S. Munroi, HooTc.f. FI. N. Z. ii. 333. A woody shrub, or small 
tree; branches, petioles, and leaves below covered with white appressed 
tomentum. Leaves petioled, -|-1 in. long, narrow oblong, obtuse, glabrous 
or viscid above, coriaceous, margin wrinkled and crenate; petiole 1— 3- in. 
long. Corymbs lax, terminal, leafy ; peduncles and pedicels tomentose, the 
latter and involucre glandular and pubescent. Head broadly turbinate, 5— | 
in. diam. ; involucral scales spreading, few, short, membranous, obtuse ; rays 
