1024 COMPOSITAE. | Senecio. 
Soutn Istanp: Otago—Ben Lomond, Mount Bonpland, and other high peaks 
to the west, Petrie! mountains above Lake Harris, 7’. Kirk! Mackinnon’s Pass, 
F. R. Gibbs! Routeburn, Poppelwell! Lake Hauroko, J. Crosby Smith ; Eyre Mountains 
and the Garvie Mountains. Poppelwell; Mount Eglinton, Morton ! 3000-4500 ft. 
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29. §. Adamsii Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii (1896) 536.— 
A small robust much-branched shrub 3-5 ft. high; young branches, leaves, 
and inflorescence excessively viscid. Leaves shortly petiolate, 1—2 in. 
long, oblong or oblong-obovate, obtuse, quite entire, extremely thick and 
coriaceous, glabrous above, beneath covered, except the midrib, with dense 
white or pale-buff closely appressed tomentum ; margins revolute. Corymbs 
terminal, few-flowered, laxly branched; peduncles and pedicels nearly 
glabrous but excessively viscid; bracts varying from oblong to linear- 
spathulate. Heads 5-15, broadly campanulate, #in. diam. ; involucral 
bracts linear, obtuse, almost glabrous except a tuft of woolly hairs at the 
tip. Ray-florets 10-15, yellow; ligules +in. long, spreading. Disc- 
florets numerous ; limb 5-toothed. Achenes glabrous or pubescent. Pappus- 
hairs white, slender, scabrid.—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 348; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 381. 8. pachyphyllus Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 
xvi (1884) 410 (not of Remy ex C. Gay). 
Nortu Istanp: Mount Holdsworth, Tararua Range, W. Townson! SoutH 
Istanp : Nelson—Mount Arthur and Mount Peel, 7’. F. C. ; Mount Rintoul and Ben 
Nevis, #. R. Gibbs / Bryant; Mount Duppa, J. H. Macmahon! 3500-5500 ft. Janu- 
ary-February. 
Distinguished from S. revolutus by the much more coriaceous leaves, with the 
midrib prominent beneath, narrow laxly branched corymbs, and by the peduncles, 
pedicels, and involucral bracts being nearly glabrous. , 
30. S. bifistulosus Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 144.—-A small much- 
branched shrub 1-2 ft. high ; branches decumbent at the base, erect above ; 
bark pale, closely marked with the scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves 
crowded at the tips of the branches, spreading, lin. long, ,4 in. broad, 
narrow-linear, subacute, coriaceous, grooved above, beneath with the margins 
revolute to the midrib, a narrow woolly border showing on each side of 
the line of junction, the rounded edge of the leaf constricted here and 
there, and hence appearing crenate. Peduncles terminating the branchlets, 
2-4 in. long, clothed with numerous leaty bracts. Heads solitary, 14 in. 
-diam.; involucral bracts few, broad, herbaceous, woolly on the back. 
Achenes linear-oblong, glabrous, obscurely ribbed. Pappus white, soft.— 
Handb. N.Z, Fl. (1864) 161; TZ. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 344; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 381. 
SoutH Istanp: Dusky Bay, Lyall, Hector and Buchanan ! 1500-3000 ft. 
Two specimens in Mr. Buchanan’s herbarium, neither of them in very good 
condition, are all I have seen of this curious and most distinct species. More specimens 
are required before a satisfactory description can be drawn up. 
31. S. eassinioides Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 163.—An erect 
much-branched shrub 4-10 ft. high; bark deciduous, loose and papery ; 
branches numerous, crowded, spreading, brittle, tomentose above. Leaves 
loosely imbricating, 4-1 in. long, linear or linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, 
sessile, coriaceous, entire, glabrous above, beneath clothed with appressed 
whitish-vellow tomentum. Heads solitary, sessile, terminating the branches, 
