Brachyglottis arborescens Oliver 
Col,by Baylis,Great Is, “hree Kings.Dec.)5, 
Ak, Museum Records.,Vol.3. nos.4-5. Dec. 1948 
Brachyglottis. | COMPOSITAE. 1009 
A small genus of 2 (or more probably 1) species, confined to New Zealand. 
It differs from Senecio in habit, in the shape of the female corolla, and in the papillose 
achenes. 
Leaves dull. Involucres whitish, shining oa .. Ll. B. repanda. 
Leaves larger, glossy. Involucres purplish, hardly shining 2. B. Rangiora. 
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» OK Ar 292. 
!. B. repanda For's® Char. Gen. (1776446, t. 40.—A shrub or small tree 
8-20 ft. high; branches stout, brittle, densely clothed with soft white 
tomentum. Leaves 4-12 in. long including the petiole, broadly oblong or 
ovate-oblong, irregularly lobed or sinuate, membranous, dull-green and 
glabrous above, clothed with milk-white tomentum beneath : petiole stout, 
1-3 in. long. Panicles large, exceeding the leaves, often drooping. Heads 
small, gin. long; bracts linear-oblong, whitish, shining. Florets 10-12 ; 
female florets with the outer lip lobed or entire-—A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) 
n. 463; Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 163; T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 
336 ; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 367. Senecio Forsteri Hook. f. Fl. 
Nov. Zel, i (1853) 148, t. 40. Cineraria repanda Forst. f. Prodr. (1786) 
56; RYH. FI. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 255. 
Nort and Soutu Istanps: Abundant from the North Cape as far south as 
Kaikoura and Greymouth. Sea-level to 2500 ft. Pukapuka ; Wharangitawhito. 
August—October. ‘ 
A common plant in the northern portion of the Dominion. It is said to be 
poisonous to cattle and horses. 
2. B. Rangiora Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv (1882) 357.—Very 
similar to the preceding, but rather smaller, seldom more than 12 or 14 ft. 
high, with stouter branches and larger leaves. Leaves 6-15 in. long 
including the petiole, more coriaceous and glossy, sometimes unequal at 
the base; petiole longer and stouter, 3-5 in. long. Involucral bracts 
purplish, hardly shining. Female florets with the outer heule entire.— 
L. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 336; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 367. 
c vb Nortu anpd Soutn Istanps: Shores of Cook Strait, Buchanan / T. Kirk s West- 
port, Dr. Gaze! Greymouth, Helms. Rangiora. July-September. 
I consider this to be a trivial variety of B. repanda, from which it differs in no 
important character. But as both Kirk and Buchanan treated it as a distinct species, 
and as they were supported by the late Dr. Mantell, who had it in cultivation for 
many years, I have retained it for the present. It appears to keep its characters, 
such as they are, under cultivation. 
24. SENECIO Linn. | 727 
Herbs, shrubs, or small trees of exceedingly various habit, glabrous or 
pubescént or more or less woolly or tomentose. Leaves alternate, entire 
or variously divided. Heads solitary or corymbose or paniculate, hetero- 
gamous and radiate or homogamous and discoid. Involuere from cylindrical 
to hemispherical ; bracts in 1 or 2 series, nearly equal, erect, free or connate 
below, usually with a few much shorter ones at the base. Receptacle flat 
or convex, naked, pitted or fimbrillate. Florets of the circumference female, 
ligulate, sometimes sterile or wanting. Disc-flerets hermaphrodite, tubular, 
5-toothed. Anthers obtuse at the base or minutely tailed. Style-branches 
of the hermaphrodite florets recurved, their tips truncate or penicillate. 
Achenes subterete, usually ribbed or striate. Pappus-hairs copious, soft, 
white, smooth or scabrid or barbellate. 
