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or almost whitish. Achenes densely silky-strigose. Pappus-hairs not 
thickened at the tips——Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 129; T. Kirk in 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii (1891) 483; Students’ Fl. (1899) 277; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 295; Subantarct. Is. N.Z. 11 (1909) 413. 
AUCKLAND AND CAMBPELL IsLANDS: Abundant from sea-level to nearly 1000 ft. 
December—January. 
Of the many handsome herbaceous plants found in the Auckland and Campbell 
Islands this is one of the finest. Its rosettes of huge ribbed leaves, pressed flat to the 
ground, are freyuently more than 4 ft. in diameter, and from the centre rise from 4-6 
or even as many as 8-10 tall flowering stems 14-3 ft. high, each of them bearing numerous 
rayed flower-heads ldin. diam. The rays are usually lilac or whitish-purple; the 
dise is a deep rich purple. 
2. P. eriniferum Hook. f. Fl. Antarct.i (1844) 32, tt. 24, 25.—Radical 
leaves variable in size and shape, 1-4 ft. long, 4-12in. broad, orbicular- 
ovate or broadly oblong to ovate-lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, acute, 
narrowed into a sheathing petiole of variable length, firm but membranous, 
clothed with thin white tomentum beneath, above setose with moniliform 
hairs intermixed ; principal nerves 8-16, parallel, but following the outline 
of the leaf; margins remotely and minutely spinulose-serrate. Cauline- 
leaves smaller and narrower, sessile, clothed with thin white tomentum on 
both surfaces. Flowering stem stout, 2-6 ft. high ; raceme of 15-30 heads 
or more. Heads subglobose, discoid, 1-l4in. diam., purple; involucral 
bracts ovate-lanceolate, margins ciliate. Ray-florets with a very short 
and inconspicuous 2-3-fid ligule. Achenes silky-strigose. Pappus-hairs 
shghtly thickened at the tips——Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 129; ZT. Kirk in 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii (1891) 4384; Students’ Fl. (1899) 278; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 295 ; Subantarct. Is. N.Z. ii (1909) 413. P. Hombronii 
Decne. in Voy. Astrol. et. Zel. (1853) 36.  Albinea orisegenesa Homb. and 
Jacq. Voy. Astrol. et Zel. (1853) 37, t. 4. 
AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL IsLanps, AnTIPopES Istanps: Abundant in wet peaty 
ground from sea-level to over 1000 ft. December—January. 
Almost as fine a species as the preceding, from which it differs in its suberect petiolate 
leaves, taller scapes, which sometimes are over 4 ft. in height, and in the flower-heads 
being without rays. The entire plant dies to the ground in winter, leaving only 
hibernating leaf-buds enclosed in the remains of the decaying leaves of the previous 
season. Hooker’s plate of the inflorescence is excellent; but, unfortunately, the artist 
has inadvertently figured the leaf of P. speciosum in mistake for that of this species. 
3. P. Hookeri Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi (1884) 395 (excl. t. 37).— 
Leaves all radical, 6-12 in. long, 3-4in. broad, obovate or oblong-obovate, 
acute or acuminate, narrowed into a short broad petiole, coriaceous, clothed 
on both surfaces with rather loose white and silvery tomentum ; principal 
nerves 8-12, slender; margins entire or minutely denticulate. Flowering 
stems 1-3, 1}-2 ft. high, strict, silky-tomentose, naked below excepting for 
1-3 narrow-linear bracts; raceme of 12-24 heads. Heads subglobose, 
discoid, gin. diam.; involucral bracts narrow-iinear, acuminate. Ray- 
florets few, with a very short and inconspicuous 2-lobed ligule. Achene 
silky. Pappus-hairs hardly thickened above.—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 
278 ; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 296; Subantarct. Is. N.Z. ii (1909) 
414; lll. N.Z. Fl. 1 (1914) t. 92; Vase. Fl. Macquarie Id. (1919) 28. 
P. Hookerianum 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxiti (1891) 435, t. 40. 
P. Gilliesianum 7. Kirk l.c. xxiii (1891) 435. 
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