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Senecio.] crowded at the ends of the branches, 3–7 in. long, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, narrowed to a broad sessile base, quite entire, subcoriaceous, glabrous above, clothed with thin appressed white tomentum beneath; veins reticulated. Panicles terminal, erect, 4–9 in. long; peduncles and pedicels densely glandularpubescent, lower bracts foliaceous. Heads numerous, ½–¾ in. diam.; involucral bracts about 12, linear-oblong, obtuse, glandularpubescent. Ray-florets 12–15, yellow; ligules narrow, contorted. Disc-florets 20–30; limb campanulate, 5-lobed. Achenes oblong, grooved, glabrous. Pappus-hairs dirty-white, short, scabrid.—S. Muelleri, ''Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xv. (1883) 360; Students Fl.'' 346.

19. S. laxifolius, ''Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' ii. (1870) 89.—A small diffusely branched shrub 1–4 ft. high; branchlets, leaves beneath, and inflorescence densely clothed with white cottony tomentum. Leaves usually close-set, on slender petioles ½–1½ in. long; blade 1–2½ in., lanceolate or oblong -lanceolate or elliptic lanceolate, acute at both ends, glabrous above or slightly cottony when young, coriaceous, quite entire. Panicle terminal, long and narrow, lax; peduncles and pedicels slender, cottony; lower bracts foliaceous. Heads ¾ in. diam., broad-campanulate; involucral bracts 12–15, linear-oblong, acute, tomentose, with broad scarious margins. Ray-florets 12–15, long and narrow, yellow. Disc-florets numerous. Achenes oblong, grooved, glabrous.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 347.

20. S. Greyii, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 148, t. 38.—A small spreading shrub 2–8 ft. high; branches stout, woody, terete; branchlets, under-surface of leaves, and petioles densely clothed with appressed soft white tomentum. Leaves on slender petioles ½–1½ in. long; blade 1½–3½ in., oblong or oblong-ovate, obtuse, rounded and often unequal at the base, coriaceous, quite entire, upper surface glabrous except a cottony line at the margin; midrib prominent beneath. Corymbs large, terminal, 2–5 in. broad, much branched; peduncles and pedicels glandular-pubescent; bracts numerous, the lower ones foliaceous; the upper narrower,