Senecio .] 
XXXIX. COMPOSITE. 
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nearly £ in. long, revolute ; anthers very shortly tailed ; pappus hairs white, 
rather slender, scabrid. Achene grooved, pubescent. 
Middle Island: Nelson mountains, Munro ; Upper Awatere valley, Sinclair. 
19. S. cassinioid.es, IIoolc. /., n. sp. A small, woody, very robust, 
small-leaved shrub ; branches stout, covered with deciduous bark, marked, 
like a pine-tree, with scars of fallen leaves. Leaves imbricate, -^-4- in. long, 
sessile, linear-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, covered below, like the branchlets 
and involucres, with yellowish very appressed tomentum. Heads solitary, 
sessile, terminal, % in. long ; involucral scales in 1 series, broadly linear, 
obtuse, coriaceous, with membranous margins, much shorter than the florets ; 
rays very short, revolute ; anthers scarcely tailed ; pappus of rigid, scabrid 
white hairs. Achene grooved, glabrous. 
Middle Island : Wairau Pass, alt. 5000 ft., and Rangitata river, alt. 3000 ft., Sinclair ; 
Godley river, alt. 4-5000 it.,Haast. A remarkable species, resembling Cassinia Vauvilliersii. 
18. BRACHY GLOTTIS, Foist. 
A tree. Leaves very large, tomentose below, as are the branches. — Heads 
small, excessively numerous, disposed in very large branching panicles, cam- 
panulate, 10-12-flowered. — Involucral scales in 1 series, linear, scarious, 
obtuse, shining, with subulate bracts at the base. Receptacle very narrow, 
alveolate. Florets of circumference female, irregularly lobed or 2-lipped, 
outer lip very short broad recurved, inner narrow revolute; of disk tu- 
bular, campanulate above. Anthers with short tails. Arms of style trun- 
cate, papillose at the tip. Pappus of 1 series of white, rather stout, scabrid 
hairs. Achene short, terete, papillose. 
I have restored this genus of Forster’s, because of its very different habit from the other 
species of Senecio, its scarious shining involucral scales and two-lipped ray-florets ; the 
latter, however, vary much in form. 
1. B. repanda, Forst. Char. Gen. 46. — Senecio Forsteri, FI. N. Z. i. 
148. A small branching tree, 10-20 ft. high. Branches, petioles, leaves 
below, and inflorescence covered densely with soft, white, cottony tomentum. 
Leaves very large, - 6-12 in. long, very broadly ovate-oblong or cordate-ob- 
long, irregularly lobed or waved along the margin, membranous, glabrous 
above; petioles 1-3 in. long. Panicles larger than the leaves, spreading, 
drooping or erect ; branches slender, flexuose. Heads excessively numerous, 
sessile or pedicelled, minute, in. long. — Cineraria repanda , Forst. Prod. 
Abundant in forests throughout the islands, Banks and Solander, etc. 
19. TRAVERSIA, Hook, f., n. g. 
Leaves alternate, sessile, serrate, with reticulate venation. — Heads in 
corymbs, broadly campanulate, 10-12-flowered, bracteolate. Involucre ot 
1 series of 6-8 broad, oblong, obtuse, erect, spreading, very rigid and coriaceous 
scales, shorter than the florets. Receptacle sinuous, alveolate. Florets all tu- 
bular, campanulate above, with 5 revolute long lobes. Anthers obtuse, with- 
out tails, exserted. Arms of style truncate, papillose. Pappus of about 2 
series of very rigid, unequal, scabrid, dirty-white hairs. Achene short, gla- 
brous. 
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