934 SENECIO ROTUNDIFOLIUS. 
endemic. Several species are of oreat beee ea are - remarkable | 
large size of their foliage or for their peculiar habit. 
DISTRIBUTION OF THE SPECIES. o> 
Senecio rotundifolius is found over a very limited area, and usually in 
near vicinity of the sea. It attains its northern limit in Martin’s: B: 
occurs in all the sounds as far as Puysegur Point, but has not been ol 
farther eastward on the mainland. It is plentiful on Centre aan Ruapu 
&c., Stewart Island, and, I believe, on the Snares also. 
It is most plentiful at or near the sea-level, but ascends to 1,600ft. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Senecio rotundifolius, Hook. f. 
A shrub or small tree, 6ft. to 30ft. high, with thin smooth bark and rok 
tomentose branches. Leaves alternate, very thick, entire, and coriaceous whe 
fresh, with a stout marginal nerve, orbicular or broadly ovate, 3in. to sin. bro. 
unequal or slightly cordate at the base; petioles stout, rin. to 3in. long, ai 
with the under-surface of the leaves, clothed with whitish tomentum. Pa 
terminal; branches stout, erect ; vonehes of the panicle and involucre tor 
tose and woody. Heads numerous, pedicelled, }in. to Jin. in diameter, desti 
of rays, broadly campanulate; involucral scales thick. Florets all tubular 
campanulate; a few of the outer series female, or all perfect... Pappus-hair 
white, scabrid. Achene furrowed, glabrous or, rarely, with a few silky hairs. — 
EXPLANATION OF Plate CXVI, — ~ 
Senecio rotundifolius, Hook. f., natural size. 1. Perfect floret. 2. Involu 
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