977 
as 
Raoulia. | salnateee 
var. albe-Sericen + 0. 25: 195 PH (1474) oy. 
Var. apice-nigra 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (18997302. Leaves more densely tomentose, 
white with soft woolly hairs. Involucral bracts brownish-black at the tips.—Beauverd 
in Bull. Bot. Soc. Genéve, ii (1912) 49, 53. R. Monroi Beauverd L.c. ii (1912) t. 14, f. 9-18 
(not of Hook. f.). R. Beauverdi Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlvi (1914) 64. 
NortH Istanp: From the East Cape and the Upper Thames Valley southwards, 
but often local. SournH Istanp: Abundant throughout. Stewart Istanp: Mason 
Bay, 7. Kirk / Sea-level to 5500 ft. December—January. Var. apice-nigra : 
A‘watere Valley, 7. Kirk! mountains above the Wairau Gorge, T. F.C. ; Lake Tenny- 
son, R. M. Laing. Otago—Mount Pisa, Kawarau River, St. Bathan’s, Sowburn, Petrie ! 
/ A very variable and almost polymorphic plant, the various forms of which require 
‘more attention than has yet been given to them. For the present I place under var. 
/ apice-nigra a plant taken by Beauverd as R. Monroi, but which (as mentioned under 
’ that species) certainly does not match Hooker’s type. Cockayne has suggested the 
“name of R. Beauverdi for it, but he has since independently referred it to var. apice- 
nigra. 774 a 
19. R. Monroi Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 148.—Small, prostrate 
and rooting, much branched, forming small flattened patches; ultimate 
branchlets erect, leafy, greyish-white. Leaves regularly and closely imbri- 
cate, distichous, spreading and recurved, more or less plicate, } in. long, 
narrow linear-elliptic; sheath appressed to the branch, 3-5-nerved; limb 
subcoriaceous, coated on both surfaces with grey silky tomentum, apex 
mucronulate. ‘ Heads small, narrow, 4 in. long, terminating the branchlets, 
spreading after flowering. Involucral bracts in 3-4 series, linear-oblong, 
obtuse or emarginate, the outer tomentose, the inner with scarious tips. 
Florets about 15, the females the most numerous. Achene puberulous.— 
T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 306; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 350 ; 
Ill. N.Z. Fl. 1 (1914) t. 1028. KR. Cheesemanii Beuuverd in Bull. Bot. Soc. 
Genéve, (1912) t. 14, £. 1-8. 
Souta Istanp: Not uncommon in dry gravelly and sandy places in Marlborough, 
Canterbury, and Otago. Sea-level to 3000 ft. November—January. 
Easily recognized by the distichous leaves and greyish-white colour, which separate 
if from all the other species of the genus. It is curious that Hooker does not mention 
the distichous leaves in his description, for they are distinctly shown ig his type speci- 
mens. The leaves are correctly represented, however, in my Illustrations (t. 1028). 
The omission was unfortunate, for it doubtless led Beauverd to describe the true 
ht. Monrot as a new species. 
20. R. Haastii Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 148.—Forming large 
compact green cushions of irregular shape, often 2-3 ft. diam., glabrous 
cr nearly so. Leaves densely imbricated, 7 in. long; sheathing base 
membranous, much dilated, 3-nerved ; lamina or tip rigid, ovate-subulate, 
erect, more or less coriaceous, flat above, rounded beneath, shortly silky 
or almost glabrous. Heads small, 4 in. long ; involucral bracts in 2-3 series, 
linear or linear-obovate, hyaline at the tips and obtuse. Florets few, 4-8; 
about 4 the number female. Achene faintly puberulous. Pappus-hairs 
copious, slender, not thickened above.--7’. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 302 ; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 330; Beauverd in Bull. Bot. Soc. Genéve, 1 
(1910) 224, t. 7. 
SoutH Istanp: Usually in shingly river-vallevys. Nelson—Waiau Valley, Sinclair, 
W.T. L. Travers; Amuri, T. Kirk! Clarence Valley, T. F.C. Canterbury—Kowai 
River, Haast ; Upper Waimakariri and its tributaries, T. Kirk! T. F. C., Cockayne ! 
Foweraker; Rakaia Valley, abundant, Cockayne ; Mount Arrowsmith district, Cockayne 
and hk. M. Laing. tago—Kveburn Crossing, Maniototo County, Petrie/ Mararoa, 
Cockayne. 1000-3500 ft. November—Decem ber. 
Allied te RA. tenuicaulis, but easily distinguished by its habit of forming huge 
cushions of distinct greenish colour, by the shorter leaves with broad bases and ovate- 
subulate tips, and by the narrow few-flowered heads. 
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