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Raoulia.]

1. R. australis, Hook. f. ex Raoul, Choix de Plantes, 20, t. 15.—Forming broad flat patches. Stems 1—6 in. long, much interlaced, prostrate and rooting; branches numerous, closely packed, short, erect, ½–1½ in. high. Leaves laxly or densely imbricated, erect or spreading or recurved, $1⁄15$–$1⁄8$ in. long, linear- or obovate-spathulate to rounded spathulate, obtuse at the tip, concave, more or less clothed on both surfaces with white or yellowish tomentum, especially towards the tip. Heads $1⁄8$–$1⁄4$ in. long; involucral bracts in 2–3 series; outer spathulate, tomentose; mner linear, obtuse, scarious, shining, pale-yellow. Florets from 12 to 20 or more, the females equalling or exceeding the hermaphrodite ones in number. Achene glabrous or minutely pubescent. Pappus-hairs very numerous, extremely slender, not thickened at the tips.—Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 135; ''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 148; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 302. R. Mackayi, ''Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xiv. (1882) 354, t. 34, f. 2. R. albosericea, ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xx. (1888) 195.

2. R. tenuicaulis, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 135, t. 36a.—Stems slender, prostrate and creeping, much and laxly branched, 1–10 in. long; branches ascending at the tips. Leaves laxly imbricating, spreading or recurved, $1⁄20$–$1⁄12$ long linear-oblong or lanceolate-spathulate, or on luxuriant shoots obovate-spathulate, acuminate or apiculate, concave, more or less clothed with greyish appressed tomentum or almost glabrous. Heads $1⁄15$–$1⁄10$ in. long; involucral bracts in 3 series; outer tomentose or glabrate, acute; inner scarious, with brown acute or obtuse tips. Florets from 10 to 16, the females about equalling the hermaphrodite ones in number. Achene glabrate or puberulous. Pappus-hairs copious, very slender.—''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 148; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 302.