paucis inæqualibus scabridis rigidis sordide albidis. Cineraria glastifolia. Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic. Aster
retroflexus, A. Cwnn, Herb. Solidago arborescens, A. Cunn. Frodr. et Herb., non Banks et Sol. nec Forst.
T a b . XXXIX.
Ha b . Northern Island; from the Thames river, northward. East coast. Banks and Solander.
A small tree, 6-10 feet high, everywhere perfectly smooth, with brittle, naked branches, leafy at the tops, and
bearing corymbs of large pale yellow heads of flowers, with spreading or reflexed ligulæ. Young branches scarred.
Leaves black when dry, 2 - 5 inches long, on short, slender petioles, very variable in shape, lanceolate or obovate-
oblong, quite entire or bluntly sinuate. Coiymbs 6-8 inches across, branches and peduncles spreading, leafy at the
axils. Involucral scales 4 inch long, rather broad, blunt. Ligulæ nearly an inch long, pale straw-colom-ed. Achenia
quite smooth, linear obconic, dilated at the top, striated. Pappus rather scanty ; setæ scabrid, rigid, dirty white.—
Tliis fine plant has nothing of the habit of any other New Zealand species of Senecio, but yet wants characters
which will exclude it from the genus. In many respects, especially of habit aud the rigid pappus, it agrees with
Brachyglottis, but the long ligulæ are quite foreign to the description of that genus, which is otherwise not distinguishable
from Senecio; on the whole, it is more closely allied to S.pei-dicioides than to any other New Zealand
plant.—P l a t e XXXIX. Fig. 1 , involucre and receptacle; 2 , ray floret; 3 , disc floret; 4 , pappus; 5 , stamen; 6 ,
arms of style :—all magnified.
12. Senecio Greyii, Hook, fil.; fraticosus, ramis lignosis petiolis foliisque subtus dense albo-lanatis,
foliis longe petiolatis oblongis obtusis basi rotundatis ijitegerrimis coriaceis, paniculis terminalibus ramosis
foliosis polycepbalis, pedunculis bracteis capitubsque glanduloso-pubescentibus rarius gossypinis lanatisve,
involucri lineari-oblongi squamis linearibus obtusis, ligulis elongatis, aclieniis obconicis sericeis, pappi setis
scabridis. T a b . XXXVIII.
H a b . Northern Island. Cape Palliser, Colenso.
A very handsome species, from the contrast between tbe snowy-white woolly under surface and dark green
upper surface of tbe leaf, aud the racemes of numerous golden-yellow flowers. It forms a shrub about 5 feet high.
Branches woody, covered (as are the petioles, leaves below, and sometimes inflorescence) with appressed white wool.
Leaves on petioles about an inch long; the blade 3-5 inches long, bnear-oblong or ovate, blunt, thick and coriaceous,
quite entire. Panicle terminal, of very numerous yellow heads, with spreading ligulæ ; its branches, leaves and
peduncles covered with glandular pubescence, and sometimes with white wool, which extends on to the narrow linear-
oblong involucral scales, which are 4 - | inch long. Ligulæ 4-4 inch long. Achenia rather short, obconic, silky.
Pappus scanty, rigid, white.—I have named this beautiful plant, at Dr. Sinclair’s suggestion, in honour of his Ex-
ceUency Sir G. Grey, Lieut.-Governor of New Zealand, who is no less distinguished in his official and political
capacity than as the zealous promoter of the extension of knowledge and scientific inquiry.—Plate XXXVIII. Fig. 1,
receptacle and involucre ; 2, floret of ray ; 3, of disc ; 4, stamen ; 5, arms of style :—all r
13. Senecio (Brachyglottis) Forsteri, Hook, fil.; arboreus, ramis ramulisque cinereo-pubescentibus
lanatisve, foliis amplis longe petiolatis late ovatis rotundatisve repandis sinuato-dentatis subtus cano-tomentosis,
paniculis effusis termiualibus ramosis ramis dense lanatis flexuosis polycepbalis, capitulis parvis,
involucri squamis bnearibus glabratis, flosculis radii ligula brevi irregulariter 3-5-fida, pappo parco vix 2-
seriali setis scabridis, acbenbs glanduloso-puberulis. Brachyglottis repanda, Forst. Char. Gen. A. Cunn.
Frodr. BC. Frodr. Cineraria repanda, Forst. Frodr. A. Eich. Flora. Cineraria dealbata, Banks et
Solander, 3ISS. et Ic. T a b . XL.
HiB. Tbrougbout tbe Islands ; ahìinàmt. Banks and Solander. Fl. November. Nat. name, “ Puka
Puka,” Colenso.
A small branching tree, 10-20 feet high, covered more or less with white or grey down or wool. Leaves very
large, sometimes a foot long, broadly ovate, rounded, sinuate or bluntly toothed, smooth above, white below ;
J, ,
petioles 3-5 inches long. Racemes effuse, drooping, as large as the leaves ; branches zigzag, slender. Heads very
smab, 2-3 lines long. Involucre campanulate, of smooth or pubescent, bnear, scarious scales, with hyabne edges.
Rag fiorets few, with a short inconspicuous three- to five-lobed ray. Achenium short, covered with transparent papillæ.
Fappus white, scanty, in one series.—This is a well-known plant, the natives having used the broad leaves as
paper, whence tlie native name came to be applied by them to Engbsh paper. I have abandoned tbe genus Bra-
chyglottis, which was founded upon this species, S. rotundifolius, because it has no characters that are not common to
various species of Senecio. For the same reason Bedfordia (a Tasmanian genus) must also be reduced to Senecio, its
species being referable to Brachyglottis were that genus tenable. With respect to the species of Senecio, they vary
remarkably in the presence or absence of a ray, some of the rayed species even having the florets of the circumference
absent, or reduced to tubular ones. B. repanda shows web the conversion of a tubular into a rayed corolla,
the latter cut extremely irregularly, and often even simply tubular with unequal divisions. The pappus again, which
is normally soft and of many setæ in Senecio, varies extremely in these respects ; it is nearly simple in this plant,
double in most others, of unequal setæ in many, pure white or dirty white. The obconic achenium with a dbated
top would offer a better cbaracter for Brachyglottis, but it is not always veiy evident, and is one of degree only,
for tbe Senecios vi\i\\ short achenia have also a strong tendency to this form.—Plate XL. Fig. 1, receptacle and
involucre ; 2, floret of the ray; 3, of the disc :—all magnified.
14. Senecio (Brachyglottis) perdicioides, Hook. fil. ; fruticosus, ramubs pubescentibus apice fobosis,
foliis glaberrimis gracile petiolatis elliptico-ovatis obtusis crenato-dentatis,, corymbis versus apices ramulorum
axillaribus terminalibusque,, capitulis pedicellatis turbinatis sub-8-floris, pedicelbs pubescentibus, involucri
squamis paucis obtusis puberulis, acbeuio profunde sulcato glaberrimo, pappi pibs 2-seriatis scaberuli.s.
Perdicium senecioides. Banks et Sol. 3ISS. etic.
H a b . Northern Island. Tolaga, in woods, Banks and Solander.
A bush, with rather slender pubescent branches, which are striated, covered with brown bark and scarred at the
places whence the old leaves have fallen away. Leaves on slender petioles, quite smooth, I - I 4 inch long, elbptic-
ovate, blunt, crenated and toothed, finely reticulated on the under surface. Corymbs of few beads, axillary and terminal
ou the ultimate branches. Heads on pubescent pedicels. Involucre obconic, \ inch long, eight-flowered ;
scales few, broad, blunt. Ray fiorets few, with short broad ligulæ. Receptacle convex, pitted, with raised margins to
the hollows. Pappus of two series of scabrid hairs. Achenium obconic, deeply fuiTowed, quite smooth aud glabrous.
—I only know this verj' distinct plant from a specimen iu the Banksian Herbarium.
15. Senecio (Brachyglottis) rotundifolius, Forst.; arbuscula, tota (nisi pagina superiore folii) dense
appresse lanata, ramis ramubsque crassis, fobis valide petiolatis crassis coriaceisque late ovato-rotundatis
cordatisve obtusis iutegerrimis, corymbis amplis ramosis polycepbalis, ramubs fobosis peduncubsque crassis,
involucri lineari-oblongi squamis coriaceis erectis, floscubs radii brevissime ligulatis, achenio elongato sub-
comprcsso glaberrimo, pappo biseriab setis plurimis inæquilongis scabridis apice barbeUatis.
H ab. Northern and Middle Island. Dusky Bay, Forster. Mount Egmont, 6000 feet, Dieffenhach.
Milford Sound, Lyall.
This is a remarkably leathery, thick-leaved, and very robust plant,
every part except the upper side of the leaf
Leaves large and spreading, on long petioles,
3-7 inches long. Corymbs terminal, much
4 inch long; scales very thick, erect. Ray
14 lin. long. Papjnis longer than the ache-
Receptacle pitted.—This and the two fol-
very robust habit and thick leathery fobage.
to belong to this s
covered with a dense, appressed, wiiitish or buff-coloured, woolly coat,
broadly rounded, ovate, more or less deeply cordate, blunt, quite entfre,
branched, mauy-hcaded ; branches very stout, erect, leafy. Invohicre
fiorets with short ligulæ or none. Achenia quite smooth, compressed.
Ilia, of two rows of unequal scabrid hafrs, with bearded, thickened tips,
loiring species are very closely allied indeed, and are remarkable for their
Dr. Dieflbnbach’s Mount Egmont specimens are in bud only, but appear