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338 1-nerved, upper surface slightly cottony or glabrous, beneath clothed with cottony appressed tomentum. Heads solitary, ½ in. diam. or more, on bracteate cottony peduncles 1–5 in. long terminating the branches; involucral bracts in many series, linear-ligulate, ¼–⅓ in. long, with scarious tomentose claws and long white radiating tips. Eeceptacle convex or almost conical. Florets very numerous; females few, in 1 or 2 series. Achene glabrous, with a thickened areole at the base. Pappus-hairs few, slender.—''A. Cunn. Precur. n. 449; Raoul, Choix, 45; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 308. Gnaphahum bellidioides, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 137; Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 152. Xeranthemum bellidioides, ''Forst. Prodr. n. 293; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel.'' 242.

2. H. Purdiei, ''Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxii. (1890) 440.—Stems slender, wiry, prostrate, spreading, much branched, woody at the base, 1–2 ft. long; branches white and tomentose at the tips. Leaves distant, spreading, ¼–½ in. long, obovate-spathulate, rounded at the tip and minutely apiculate, flat, rather membranous, pubescent or almost glabrous above, beneath clothed with laxly appressed greyish-white tomentum. Heads ¼ in. diam., in corymbs of 3 to 6 terminating the branchlets; peduncles and pedicels short, slender, tomentose. Involucral bracts in several series; the outer very short, obtuse, brown and scarious; the inner linear-oblong with short white radiating tips. Florets very numerous; females few, in 1–2 series. Achene glabrous, with a thickened areole at the base. Pappus-hairs few, slender, barbellate above.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 309.

3. H. filicaule, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 140, t. 36b.—Rhizome long, wiry, creeping, putting up numerous very slender siniple or rarely branched erect cottony stems 3–10 in. high. Leaves distant, ¼–⅓ in. long, obovate-oblong or narrow-oblong, obtuse or apiculate, glabrous or slightly cottony above, beneath clothed with white cottony tomentum. Heads solitary, terminal on long filiform