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Simpson & Thomson = Notes on Some N.Z. Plants, 
FP ae Roys Soce N.Z- Vo}e73, Pt.33, pp-167- 
169. | | 
Brachycome hunile sp.nov. | | 
Nexbe parva, foliis radicalibus, 1-2 cm, longis 
lineari-spathulatis, apice versus 1 mm, latis, in® 
tegris, vel apice versus denticulis parvis paucis 
minutis, aliquatenus carnosis, glanduloso-maculatis, 
vel minute glanduloso=pubescentibus., oScapi + 3 Cie 
longi, fere filiformes, infra glabri, superne 
elanduloso-pilosi. Capitulum solitarium + 6 mm, . 
daam. phyllaribus 9-10 lanceolatis, marginibus sub- 
purpureis, scariosis. Ligulae + 12, phyllaribus 
duplo longiores, oblongae, obtusae, basi pilosae. 
Achaenia ohovoidea, leviter compressa, paucis 
ricidis pilis praedita, squamas parvas serentes,. 
A very small tufted plant. Leaves radical, 
1-2 em. long, linear spathulate, 1 mm. broad at 
the tip, entire, or with 1-2 notches on one or both 
margins towards the tip, rather fleshy, gladid | 
dotted or minutely glandular pubescent. scapes 
1 or more from the base, + 3 em. lone, almost fili- 
form, glabrous below, with glandular hairs at the 
tips; heads solitary, + 6 mm. diam; involucral 
bracts 9-10, lanceolate; margins purplish, searious. 
Ray florets about 12, twice as lons as the involu~ 
cral bracts, oblone, ebtusc, yellowish and pilose 
at the base. Achenes obovate, slightly com- | 
preesed, with a few stiff hairs; pappus of small — 
scales. ey) 
Habitat: Snow hollows. pie 
Type specimen from the suwoait of Rock and Pillar 
Range, Otago, in the Herbarium Plant Research | 
Sureaw Wellinston. | agra 
Smaller in size than B, linearis and differing 
by larger flowers, longer ray florets, by the 
hairs on the corolla and achenes and the distinct 
pappus scales, | 
about tin. diam.; involucral bracts oblong or oblong-ovate, obtuse, with 
purple tips. Ray-florets usually numerous, but sometimes wanting in 
reduced states; rays white, spreading. Achenes linear-clavate, densely 
glandular-pubescent ; margins thickened. Pappus of minute bristly scales. 
—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 260; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 277. 
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