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3. R. Haastii, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 148.—Glabrous or nearly so, forming small dense patches. Stems short, rather stout, prostrate; branches numerous, closely packed, ½–1 in. high, rarely more. Leaves densely imbricated, erecto-patent, $1⁄5$ in. long, with a broad membranous sheathing base and much narrower ovatesubulate coriaceous tip, concave, quite glabrous or obscurely silky or woolly. Heads $1⁄2$ in. long; involucral bracts in 2–3 series, scarious, linear, obtuse, not brown at the tips. Florets few, 4 to 8; 2–4 of them female. Achene puberulous. Pappus-hairs copious, slender, not thickened above.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 302.

4. R. Monroi, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 148.—Stems wiry, creeping, much interlaced, forming broad patches; rootlets long, filiform; branches slender, ascending, silky, 1–2 in. high or more. Leaves laxly or densely imbricate, rarely distant, spreading and recurved, $1⁄20$–$1⁄12$ in. long, linear or linear-spathulate, obtuse, uniformly clothed on both surfaces with greyish-white appressed tomentum; margins incurved. Heads narrow, $1⁄16$ in. long; involucral bracts in 3–4 series; the outer oblong, tomentose; the inner longer and narrower, scarious, with brown obtuse tips. Florets from 15 to 20, the females the most numerous. Achene oblong, puberulous. Pappus-hairs copious, slender, not thickened at the tips.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 303.

5. R. glabra, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 135.—Stems long, slender, prostrate, much branched, forming lax patches 3–24 in. across; branches ascending, 1–3 in. long. Leaves pale