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Brachyglottis.] 2-lipped; outer lobe or ligule broad, inner small, narrow, revolute. Disc-florets hermaphrodite, tubular with a campanulate 5-toothed mouth. Anthers obtuse at the base, entire. Style-branches of the hermaphrodite florets truncate, papillose at the tips. Achenes terete or obscurely angled, papillose. Pappus-hairs copious, in 1 series.

1. B. repanda, ''Forst. Char. Gen.'' 46, t. 40.—A shrub or small tree 8–20 ft. high; branches stout, brittle, densely clothed with soft white tomentum. Leaves 4–12 in. long including the petiole, broadly oblong or ovate-oblong, irregularly lobed or sinuate, membranous, dull-green and glabrous above, clothed with milk-white tomentum beneath; petiole stout, 1–3 in. long. Panicles large, exceeding the leaves, often drooping. Heads small, ⅙ in. long; bracts linear-oblong, whitish, shining. Florets 10–12; female florets with the outer lip lobed or entire.—''A. Cunn. Precur. n. 463; Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 163; Kirk, Students Fl.'' 336. Senecio Forsteri, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' i. 148, t. 40. Cineraria repanda, ''Forst. Prodr. n. 295; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel.'' 255.

2. B. Rangiora, ''Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xiv. (1882) 357.—Very similar to the preceding, but rather smaller, seldom more than 12 or 14 ft. high, with stouter branches and larger leaves. Leaves 6–15 in. long including the petiole, more coriaceous and glossy, sometimes unequal at the base; petiole longer and stouter, 3–5 in. long. Involucral bracts purplish, hardly shining. Female florets with the outer ligule entire.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 336.