984 COMPOSITAE. (Helichrysum. 
NorrH Istanp: Mountains near Hokianga, Buchanan ! 2000 ft. 
Probably only a narrow-leaved variety of the preceding. I have seen no speci- 
mens except Mr. Buchanan’s. 
_ © 6. H. (?) paueiflorum 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii (1895) 351.— 
A small much-branched greyish-white plant, with a hard and woody base. 
Stems 3-8in. high, decumbent below, erect or ascending at the tips; 
branches stout, with the leaves }-}in. diam. Leaves densely imbricate in 
several series, in. long, oblong or oblong-spathulate, obtuse or subacute, 
erect or spreading at the tips, sessile by a broad base, both surfaces densely 
clothed with greyish-white tomentum. Heads }in. diam., solitary, sessile 
at the tips of the branches and almost hidden by the leaves; involucral 
bracts in 2 series, lanceolate, acute, scarious, silky at the base on the out- 
side. Florets few, 10-16, of which 3-6 are females. Achene clothed with 
long silky hairs, and with a thickened areole at the base. Pappus-hairs 
few, thickened upwards.—Students’ Fl. (1899) 313; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. 
Fl. (1906) 344, 
Soure Istanp: Canterbury—Craigieburn Mountains, Cockayne! Petrie! Candle- 
stick Mountains, Cockayne / 3000-5000 it. January—February. 
A curious species, with a close superficial likeness to Leucogenes grandiceps, but 
wanting the woolly bracts of that species. The pappus-hairs are those of the 
Psychrophyton section of Raoulia, with which it also agrees in the hispid achenes, and 
I should have transferred it to Raoulia but for the very different habit. 
ux 
1d. ‘piel ted. and Hook. f. Gen. Plant. it (1873) 311. — 
*A-suberect or rarely prostrate much-branched bush 1-5 ft. high, hoary in 
all its parts with appressed greyish-white tomentum; branches spreading, 
rigid and wiry, often tortuous. Leaves minute, closely appressed to the 
branch, laxly imbricating, ;g-yoin. long, linear, obtuse, concave and 
loosely woolly on the inner face, silky or woolly on the back. Heads 
small, $in. diam., solitary, sessile at the tips of the branchlets; involucral 
bracts few, linear, scarious, acute or acuminate, rarely obtuse, glabrate 
or cottony at the base. Florets 8-12; females few, 2-3. Achene glabrous 
or puberulous. Pappus-hairs in several series, copious, slender.—T’. Kirk 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 311; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 342. Ozothamnus 
depressus Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 134, t. 358; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 
(1864) 146. 
Nortu Istanp: Shingly bed of the Tukituki River, Hawke’s Bay. Petrie ! 
Sours [stanp: Not uncommon throughout, usually in shingly river-beds, — 1000- 
yer 
4500 ft. December-February. 
Easily recognized by its dead-looking appearance and minute appressed leaves. 
8. H. (?) dimorphum Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlvii (1915) 117. . 
—A scrambling bush 5-8 ft. high. Stems stout and sparingly branched 
at the base, often #in. in circumference, densely and compactly branched 
towards the top; ultimate branchlets very slender. Leaves of young 
plants (also present in adults where shaded) elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 
é-4 in. long, spreading or deflexed, glabrous and distinctly nerved above, 
densely clothed with soft white tomentum beneath, acute at the apex, 
margins thickened and recurved. Leaves of adult plants closely appressed, 
scale-like, linear-lanceolate, ¢-¢ in. long, obtuse or subacute, concave 
above, more or less clothed with silky-white tomentum, upper surface 
more or less silky-tomentose. Heads solitary and terminal, small, 4-1 in, 
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