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378 ⅕ in. long, yellow, revolute. Disc-florets 6–10; limb broadly campanulate, deeply 5-lobed. Achenes grooved, glabrous or sparingly hispidulous. Pappus-hairs in several series, rigid, minutely denticulate.—Choix, 21, t. 18; ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 150; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 161; Kirk, Students Fl.'' 345.

16. S. perdicioides, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 149.—A small round-topped branching shrub 2–6 ft. high; branches slender, grooved, pubescent, scarred where the leaves have fallen away. Leaves 1–2 in. long, oblong or elliptic-oblong to ovate-oblong, obtuse, membranous, crenate-serrate or dentate, quite glabrous; veins reticulated; petioles slender. Corymbs leafy, terminating the branches; pedicels slender, pubescent. Heads turbinate, ⅓ in. long; involucral bracts about 5, oblong, obtuse, with broad scarious margins. Ray-florets 2 or 3, rarely more, yellow; ligule oblong, spreading. Disc-florets 4–8; limb funnel-shaped, deeply 5-lobed. Achenes oblong, grooved, glabrous or nearly so. Pappus-hairs in 2 series, rigid, minutely scabrid.—''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 161; Kirk, Students Fl.'' 345. S. multinerve, ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxv. (1893) 330. S. distinctus, Col. l.c. xxvii. (1895) 390.

17. S. Huntii, ''F. Muell. Veg. Chath. Is.'' 23, t. 3.—A shrub or small round-headed tree 6–20 ft. high, usually more or less glandular-pubescent and viscid in all its parts; branchlets marked with the scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves crowded, 2–4 in. long, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong to linear-obovate, obtuse or acute, narrowed to a sessile base, entire, glabrous or nearly so above, usually clothed with thin fulvous tomentum beneath; margins flat or subrevolute; midrib prominent beneath. Panicle terminal, large, dense, much branched, 3–5 in. broad; pedicels slender, densely glan(iular-hirsute. Heads ½–¾ in. diam.; involucral bracts about 12, linear-oblong, obtuse or acute, membranous, glandular, villous at the tips. Ray-florets 15–20, yellow; ligule broad, revolute. Disc-florets numerous; limb campanulate, 5-lobed. Achenes oblong, grooved, glabrous. Pappus-hairs in 2 series, slender, scabrid.—Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 734; Kirk, Students' Fl. 346.

18. S. Stewartiæ, ''Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xiii. (1881) 339.—A shrub or small tree 6–25 ft. high; trunk 8–24 in. diam.; branches spreading, marked with the scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves