1020 COMPOSITAE. [ Senecio. 
18. S. myrianthos COheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. vii (1875) 348.— 
A small sparingly branched shrub 3-12 ft. high; bark black; branches 
slender, when young clothed with thin buff tomentum. Leaves 3~7 in. 
long, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 
usually unequal and often slightly cordate at the base, sharply 
and coarsely doubly dentate, thin and membranous, glabrous above 
when mature, beneath clothed with silvery-white appressed tomentum, 
veins reticulated ; petioles slender, 1-2 in. long. Panicles large, terminal, 
often more than 2{ft. long; peduncles and pedicels slender, every- 
where densely covered with short spreading purplish- brown glandular 
hairs; lower bracts often foliaceous, upper subulate. Heads numerous, 
4 in. long, obconic; involucral bracts about 8, linear-oblong, obtuse, mem- 
branous, glabrous or nearly so. Ray-florets 4-6, white; ligules very short 
and broad, $in. long. Disc-florets about 6; limb narrow-campanulate, 
5-toothed. Achenes oblong, grooved, minutely hispidulous. Pappus-hairs 
in 1 series, minutely scabrid.—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 346; Cheese. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 377. 8. Cheesemanu Hook. f. in Ic. Plant. (1877) 
t. 1201. 
Norta Istanp: Ravines on the Cape Colville Peninsula, from Coromandel to 
Tairua and Waitekauri, 7. F. C., Adams ! Sea-level to 750 ft. November- 
December. 
A handsome and distinct species, well characterized by the membranous leaves, 
large elongated panicles, and small white ray-florets. The flowers are deliciously sweet- 
scented. 
19. S. seiadophilus Raoul in Ann. Sci. Nat. Ser. in, 2 (1844) 119.— 
A slender climbing shrub 3-15 ft. high; branches flexuose, often pendent, 
striate, clothed with short pubescence. Leaves distant, spreading, 1-2 in. 
long; blade about 4 the length, orbicular or orbicular- ovate, coarsely 
toothed, membranous, clothed on both surfaces with short scattered hairs 
or glabrate; veins reticulated. Heads 41in. diam., in few-flowered axillary 
or terminal corymbs, often forming an elongated terminal panicle; pedicels 
slender, pubescent. Involucre campanulate; bracts few, 6-8, linear- 
oblong, subacute; margins scarious. Ray-florets 4-7; ligule 4in. long, 
yellow, revolute. Disc-florets 6-10; limb broadly campanulate, deeply 
5-lobed. Achenes grooved, glabrous or sparingly hispiduious. Pappus- 
hairs in several series, rigid, minutely denticulate-—Choix (1846) 21, t. 18; 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 150; Handb. N.Z. Fl, (1864) 161; ZL. Kirk 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 345; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 377. 
SoutH Istanp: Nelson—Riwaka, Spencer / Wairoa Gorge, Bryant. Canterbury— 
Akaroa and other localities in Banks Peninsula, once abundant but now fast becoming 
scarce, faoul, T. Kirk! J. B. Armstrong ! Cockayne, R. M. Laing! Alford Forest, J. D. 
Enys ! Mount Peel, W. Barker, H. H. Allan! forest near Waimate, Toweraker. 
Otago—Not uncommon in the vicinity of Dunedin, Thomson / Petrie / Sea-level 
to 2000 ft. January-April. Kananwen sgce MAW ee -C- w 1455: WS 
20. S. perdicioides Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 149.—A small round- 
topped branching shrub 2-6 ft. high; branches slender, grooved, pubescent, 
scarred where the leaves have fallen away. Leaves 1-2 in. long, oblong 
or elliptic-oblong to ovate-oblong, obtuse, membrancus, crenate-serrate 
or dentate, quite glabrous; veins reticulated; peticles slender. Corymbs 
leafy, terminating the branches; pedicels slender, pubescent. Heads 
turbinate, $ in. Jong ; involucral bracts about 5, oblong, obtuse, with broad 
Scarlous margins. Ray-florets 2 or 3, rarely more, yellow; hgule oblong, 
