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26. S. Monroi Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii (1855) 333.—A much-branched 
woody shrub 2-6 ft. high; branchlets, petioles, and leaves beneath clothed 
with appressed whitish tomentum. Leaves shortly petioled, $15 in. long, 
narrow-oblong or oblong-obovate, obtuse, narrowed into the petiole, cori- 
aceous, glabrous above ; margins wrinkled and crenate. Corymbs terminal, 
lax, leafy, slightly viscid; peduncles clothed with white tomentum ; 
pedicels slender, glandular-pubescent. Heads numerous, broadly turbinate, 
1_2 in. diam. ; involucral bracts 10—15, linear, acute, membranous, glandular- 
pubescent. Ray-florets 10-15, yellow; ligules +in. long, broad, revolute. 
Disc-florets numerous; limb funnel-shaped, 5-toothed. Achenes linear, 
grooved, hispid with short white hairs. Pappus-hairs white, slender, 
minutely scabrid.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 162; 7. Kirk Students’ FI. 
(1899) 348; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 380. 
SoutH Istanp: Nelson—Wangapeka, Kingsley! Jollie’s Pass, 7. £. C.  Marl- 
borough—From Mount Blairich and the Awatere Valley southwards to the Conway 
and Mason Rivers, not uncommon, Monro, H. H. Travers! T. Kirk! Cockayne, and 
others. 1000-4500 ft. December—February. 
27. §. lapidosus Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlviii (1916) 213.—A small 
depressed much-branched prostrate shrub, forming dense clumps 6-8 in. 
high and 8-10in. diam. Branches many, closely compacted, stout and 
woody at the base, and covered with a pale flaky bark; branchlets 
ascending or suberect, leafy, densely woolly-tementose. Leaves 2-14 in. 
long, 4-4 in. broad, narrow-oblong or narrow elliptic-ovate, rarely oblong- 
spathulate, obtuse, coriaceous, margins minutely crenate, upper surface 
thinly covered with cobwebby tomentum, beneath clothed with dense 
silvery-white tomentum; petioles somewhat slender, broader at the base. 
Peduncles from the tips of the branchlets, stout or slender, 1—2 in. long, 
densely silvery-tomentose ; bracts numerous, linear or linear-oblong. Heads 
solitary, turbinate, 4-21n. diam.; involucral bracts 12-15, linear, acute, 
densely tomentose. Ray-florets 12-15, yellow; disc-florets numerous. 
Achenes linear, longitudinally grooved, hispid. | 
SoutH Istanp: North Canterbury—Faces of rocky cliffs at Hell’s Gate, Mason 
River, H. J. Matthews / 
This interesting plant was collected by the late Mr. H. J. Matthews in 1909 in 
the gorge of the Mason River, North Canterbury, where it was associated with 
Epilobium brevipes, Veronica rupicola, and other species. So far as I know, it has 
not been found elsewhere. It is clearly allied to S. Monroi, but is a much smaller and 
more compactly branched plant; and the peduncles are simple with a single terminal 
head, whereas in S. Monroi the inflorescence is copiously corymbosely branched. 
28. S. revolutus 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 348.—A small robust 
shrub 6-20 in. high; branches stout, often decumbent at the base, suberect 
above. Leaves viscid, on petioles 4—-%in. long; blade 1—24in., oblong- 
lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, obtuse, narrowed into 
the petiole, quite entire, coriaceous, glabrous and reticulated above, beneath 
clothed with pale-buff or white appressed viscid: tomentum. Corymb 
terminal, dense, about 2in. diam., on a long and stout peduncle clothed 
with ascending linear-oblong foliaceous bracts; peduncle’ and _ pedicels 
tomentose. Heads 5-15, campanulate, $-#in. diam.; involucral bracts 
linear, acute, tomentose and viscid. MRay-florets 10-15, yellow; ligules 
broad, revolute. Disc-florets numerous; limb campanulate, 5-toothed. 
Achenes linear-oblong, grooved, glabrous.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
381. 8. robustus Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. vi (1874) 243 (not of Sch. 
Bipont.). | 
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