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spreading. Disc-florets 4-8; limb funnel-shaped, deeply 5-lobed. Achenes 
oblong, grooved, glabrous or nearly so. Pappus-hairs in 2 series, rigid, 
minutely scabrid—Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 161; 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. 
(1899) 345; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 378. 8. multinerve Col. in 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxv (1893) 330. §. distinetus Col. l.c. xxvii (1895) 390. 
NortH Isuanp: From Hicks Bay and the East Cape southwards to Mahia 
Peninsula, not uncommon in forests. Raukumara. November—January. 
A handsome little shrub, not closely allied to any other New Zealand species. 
First collected by Banks and Solander at Tolage Bay during Cook’s first voyage. 
21. S. Huntii F. Muell. Veg. Chath. Is. (1864) 23, t. 3—A shrub or 
small round-headed tree 6-20 ft. high, usually more or less glandular- 
pubescent and viscid in all its parts; branchlets marked with the scars 
of the fallen leaves. Leaves crowded, 2-4 in. long, elliptic-lanceolate or 
elliptic-oblong to linear-cbovate, obtuse or acute, narrowed to a sessile 
base, entire, glabrous or nearly so above, usually clothed with thin fulvous 
tomentum beneath; margins flat or subrevolute; midrib prominent 
beneath. Panicle terminal, large, dense, much branched, 3-5 in. broad ; 
pedicels slender, densely glandular-hirsute. Heads $-?in. diam. ; involucral 
bracts about 12, linear-oblong, obtuse or acute, membranous, glandular, 
villous at the tips. Ray-florets 15-20, yellow; ligule broad, revolute. 
Disc-florets numerous; limb campanulate, 5-lobed. | Achenes oblong, 
grooved, glabrous. Pappus-hairs in. 2 series, slender, scabrid.—Hook. f. 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1867) 734; T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 346;  Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 378. 
CoatHam Istanps: Not uncommon in forests, H. H. Travers! G. Mair! F. A. D. Cox! 
Cockayne ! Rautin. December—Yebruary. 
This forms a handsome small tree, seldom exceeding 20 ft. in height. The leaves are 
pale shining-green above and greyish-green beneath; and the flowers are bright-yellow, 
usually produced in great abundance. 
22. §. Stewartiae J. B. Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xii (1881) 339.— 
A shrub or small tree 6-25 ft. high; trunk 8-24 in. diam.; branches spreading, 
marked with the scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves crowded at the ends 
of the branches, 3-7in. long, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate, narrowed to a broad sessile base, quite entire, subcoriaceous, 
glabrous above, clothed with thin appressed white tomentum beneath ; 
veins reticulated. Panicles terminal, erect, 4-9in. long; peduncles and 
pedicels densely glandular-pubescent, lower bracts foliaceous. Heads 
numerous, }—2 in. diam. » involucral bracts about 12, linear-oblong, obtuse, 
glandular-pubescent. Ray-florets 12-15, yellow; ligules narrow, contorted. 
Dise-florets 20-30; limb campanulate, 5-lobed. Achenes oblong, grooved, 
glabrous. Pappus-hairs dirty-white, short, scabrid.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. 
Fl. (1906) 378; Subantarct. Is. N.Z. u (1909) 418. §. Mueller 7. Kark in 
Trans. N.Z, Inst. xv (1883) 360; Students’ Fl, (1899) 346. 
THE Snares, THe SoLaAnpEeRS, HEREKOPERE, AND OTHER SMALL ISLANDS IN 
Foveaux Srrait: C. Trail, T. Kirk, Chapman, Poppelwell. December—February. 
Closely allied to S. Huntii, from which it differs in. the broader more acuminate 
jeaves, with much white tomentum beneath, and in the narrow contorted ray-florets. 
The restricted geographical range of many species of Senecio has often been remarked ; 
but hardly any instance is more striking than that of the present species, which is 
confined to a few small rocky islets individually not much more than a square mile in 
area. 
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