972 | COMPOSITAE, [ Raoulia. 
7. R. Loganii Cheesem. n. comb.—Forming pulvinate masses 6-12 in. 
diam. Branches slender, woody at the base, with the leaves 4-3 in. diam., 
the whole plant clothed with soft whitish or brownish tomentum. Leaves 
densely imbricating, +in. long, obovate or oblong-obovate, rounded or 
cuneate at the top, membranous, 3-nerved at the base, recurved at the 
apex, clothed with long seft hairs above the middle of the upper surtace, 
but which cover the greater part of the under-surface. Heads {1n. diam., 
sunk among the leaves at the tips of the branches; involucral bracts 2-3 
series, linear-oblong, obtuse, scarious, the outer with a tuft of woolly hairs 
on the back. Florets 20-40, the hermaphrodite much more numerous 
than the female. Achene clothed with long silky hairs, and with a 
thickened areole at the base. Pappus-hairs comparatively few, rigid, 
thickened above and furnished with clavate papillae—Haastia Loganii 
Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv (1882) 350, t. 30, f. 3. Helichrysum 
Logani 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 310; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
340. 
Nortu Jstanp: Mount Holdsworth, Tararua Range, Buchanan! T. P. Arnold! 
W. Townson ! B. C. Aston! Mount Hector, B. C. Aston / Petrie! Stewart ISLAND: 
Near the summit of Mount Anglem, Cockayne / (‘* Report on Botany of Stewart Island,” 
p. 64, under Helichrysum). 4000-5000 ft. January. 
Originally placed in Haastia by Buchanan, probably on account of its soft woolly 
habit, for it does not possess the numerous female flowers of that genus. Kirk 
transferred it to Helichrysum ; but the pappus-hairs are precisely those of the section 
Psychrophyton of Raoulia, in which genus it must be placed. 
8. R. bryoides Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. u (1855) 332.—Ferming hard and 
dense convex patches 2-8in. diam. Lower portion of the stem hard and 
woody, roots long and stringy. Branches short, stout, with the leaves 
4-lin. diam. Leaves very closely packed, imbricated in several series all 
round the branch, erecto-patent, #~,—-} in. long, narrow obovate-spathulate 
or rhombcid-spathulate, subacute or obtuse; lower % glabrous or slightly 
woolly, upper 4 about triangular, coriaceous, clothed on both surfaces 
with closely felted silky hairs which do not conceal the shape of the 
leaf, and with a tuft of cottony wool on each side. Heads 4-4+1n. 
diam., sunk among the terminal leaves; involucral bracts in 2-3 series, 
linear-oblong, scarious, acute, inner with white radiating tips. Florets 
8-14, the hermaphrodite ones more numerous’ than the females. Achene 
with long silky hairs and a thickened arecle at the base. Pappus-hairs 
few, rigid, thickened at the tips—Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 150; TJ. Kirk 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 307; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 336; Beauverd 
in Bull. Bot. Soc. Geneve, 1 (1912) 51. Psychrophyton bryoides Beauverd 
lc. (1910) 234. TAghus , 65 --— 2. 
South IsLanD: Common on the mountains of Nelson and Marlborough. Canter- 
bury—Mount Torlesse, Cockayne! Black Range, 7. #. C.; Craigieburn Mountains, 
Petrie! Otago—Mount Pisa and the Hector Mountains, Peirie / 3500-6500 ft. 
December—January. 
Easily distinguished from R. eximia, R. mammillaris, &c., by the hairs on the 
leaves not enveloping them so as to conceal their shape. 
9. R. Gibbsii Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlii (1910) 216.—Forms 
small patches 6-9 in. diam., much more laxly branched than is usual in 
the genus. Branches stout, erect or suberect, 25in. long, with the 
leaves on 3-7 1n. diam., not forming a hard compact mass as in R. bryoides. 
