964 COMPOSITAE. [Gnraphaloum. 
A handsome plant, in its usual state at once recognized by the large size, broad 
distinctly 2-nerved leaves, and large heads. But small states with narrower leaves 
and smaller heads are difficult to separate from G. Keriense, and there is little doubt that 
the two species pass into one another. In both G. Lyallit and G. Keriense the disc-florets 
are frequently sterile, showing a tendency in the heads to become unisexual. 
2. G. trinerve Forst. f. Prodr. (1786) 5b Gtems 1-2 ft. long, rather 
slender, sparingly branched, prostrate or decumbent, glabrate below, more 
or less white and cottony above. Leaves distant, spreading or deflexed, 
41 in. long, obovate-lanceolate or spathulate, broadest towards the tip, 
acute or apiculate, gradually narrowed to a broad base, glabrous above 
and.faintly 3-nerved, white with appressed wool beneath. Heads in corymbs 
of 3 to 10 or solitary, terminating the branches, which are produced 
into slender cottony bracteate peduncles, }-$in. diam. Involucral bracts 
numerous, white, radiating, the outer woolly at the base. Achene linear- 
oblong, glabrous. Pappus-hairs few, slender.—A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel, (1832) 
339; A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) n. 455; Raoul Choix (1846) 45; Hook. f. 
Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 138; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 153; T. Kirk Students’ 
Fi. (1899) 297; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. £1. (1906) 323. 
Nortu Isnanp: Rimutaka Range, 7. Kirk! Soura Istanp: West coast of 
Nelson to Westland and Milfcrd Sound, south and east coasts of Otago, abundant. 
STEWART ISLAND: eae on banks near the sea. Sea-level tg 2500 ft. No- 
vem ber—January. narm Coye TtAnt 57 “142e./O 
Closely allied to the preceding, but sufficiently characterized by the more slender 
stems, shorter obovate-spathulate leaves, which are seldom 3-nerved beneath, and by 
the bracteate peduncies. 
3. G. Keriense A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) n. 454.—Stems short or Jong, 
prostrate or decumbent, with numerous erect or ascending leafy branches 
3-9 in. long, cottony above. Leaves spreading, 4-24 in. long, $3 in. broad, 
narrow linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate or spathulate-lanceolate, acute, 
gradually narrowed to the base, glabrous above, beneath white with appressed 
cottony tomentum but with the midrib evident, rarely faintly 3-nerved. 
Heads small, 4 in. diam., in many-flowered corymbs terminating the branches, 
which are produced into leafy or bracteate cottony peduncles. Involucral 
bracts numerous, white, radiating: outer cottony at the base. Achene 
minute, glabrous. Pappus-hairs few, very slender.—Raoul Chore (1846) 
45; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.1 (1853) 138; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 153; 1. Kirk 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 298; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 323. G. novae- 
zealandiae Sch. Bip. in Bot. Zeit. m1 (1845) 171. Helichrysum micranthum 
A. Cunn. ex DC. Prodr. vi (1837) 189. wie LL OP 
Nortu Isnranp: Abundant by the sides of streams, &c., from Mangonui to Cook 
Strait. Sourn Istanp: Along the western side of the Nelson Provincial District 
from Collingwood and Wangapeka southwards, but exact southern limit not certain. 
Sea-level to 3500 ft. October-December. 
4. G. subrigidum Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii (1885) 245.—Stems 
usually much branched, sometimes almost bushy, erect or decumbent at 
the base, woody, 9-20in. long; branches slender, brittle, somewhat rigid, 
glabrous or cottony at the tips. Leaves close-set, spreading, 4-1} in. long, 
#o7-i15 In. broad, very narrow-linear or narrow linear-spathulate,. acute or 
apiculate, stiff and coriaceous, glabrous above, white with appressed to- 
mentum beneath, but with the midrib evident; margins recurved. Heads 
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