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Cassinia. | | COMPOSITAE. 987 
* Receptacle with numerous scales among the florets. 
Leaves 4-+ in., linear-obovate, white beneath .. a .. 1. C. retorta. 
Leaves ;4,-tin., linear or linear-spathulate, white or yellowish 
beneath he a i + on NE 
Leaves }-+in., linear-obovate or linear-oblong, glutinous, fulvous 
or whitish beneath Ay i + i. .. 8. C. Vauvilliersii. 
2. OC. leptophylla. 
** Receptacle with few or no scales among the florets. 
Leaves }-% in., linear-spathulate, white beneath A .. 4, O. amoena. 
Leaves 4—Lin., linear or narrow linear-spathulate, glutinous, 
* fulvous beneath a 
5. C. fulvida. 
1. C. retorta 4. Cunn. ex DC. Prodr. vi (1837) 154.—A much or sparingly 
branched heath-like shrub 4-15 ft. high ; branches stout, spreading, clothed 
with white tomentum. Leaves numerous, small, crowded, spreading and 
recurved, 4-4 in. long, linear-obovate or linear-oblong or oblong-obovate, 
obtuse, narrowed into a very short petiole, coriaceous, glabrous or hoary 
above, beneath clothed with dense white tomentum; margins recurved. 
Heads numerous, in small terminal corymbs, shortly pedicelled, turbinate, 
Lin. long; involucral bracts in several series; the outer shorter, ovate- 
oblong, tomentose ; inner linear-oblong, with short white obtuse radiating 
tips. Receptacle with many white-tipped scales similar to the inner 
involucral bracts. Florets 6-20. Achenes glabrous, striate. Pappus-hairs 
slender.—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 345; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 145; 
T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 314; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 345. 
Nortu Istanp: Common as far south as the East Cape, usually near the coast, 
on sand-dunes, Xe. November—February. 
2. C. leptophylla Rk. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xu (1817) 126.—Much 
like C. retorta in habit and general appearance, but branches more slender. 
Leaves smaller, crowded, erect or spreading or recurved, ;4y—$1in. long, 
narrow-linear or linear-spathulate, obtuse, coriaceous, glabrous above, 
clothed with white or yellowish tomentum beneath; margins recurved. 
Heads numerous, in small terminal corymbs, very shortly pedicelled, narrow- 
turbinate, din. long ; involucral bracts in several series ; the outer broader 
and shorter, glabrous or nearly so; inner linear, obtuse, with short white 
radiating tips. Receptacle with white-tipped scales subtending the florets. 
Florets 6-12. Achene and pappus as in C. reforta—A. Cunn. Precur. 
(1838) n. 447 (in part) ; Raoul Choix (1846) 45; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.1 (1853) 
132; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 145; 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 314; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 345. OC. spathulata Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxi 
(1890) 472. Calea leptophylla Forst. f. Prodr. (1786) 55. 
North anp Sout Istanps: Not uncommon from the East Cape southwards to © 
Marlborough and Nelson. Tauhinu-korokio ; Cottonwood. December—February. 
Very close to the preceding, but differing in the more slender habit, smaller and 
narrower leaves, and smaller and narrower glabrate heads. Mr. Colenso’s C. spathulata 
does not seem to me to be even entitled to varietal rank. 
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3. C. Vauvilliersii,Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 133.—An erect closely 
branched shrub 2-6 ft. high ; branches stout, erect or spreading, often 
glutinous, grooved, and with the leaves beneath densely clothed with fulvous 
or whitish tomentum. Leaves numerous, close-set, erect or spreading, 
1-Lin. long or more, linear-obovate or linear-oblong, obtuse, narrowed into 
a short broad petiole or sessile, coriaceous, glabrous and usually glutinous 
