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.
South Island: Nelson—Riwaka, Rev. F. H. Spencer; Wairoa Gorge, Bryant. Canterbury—Akaroa, Raoul; Alford Forest, J. D. Enys! Peel Forest, W. Barker. Otago—Not uncommon in the vicinity of Dunedin, G. M. Thomson! Petrie! Sea-level to 2000 ft. January–April.
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.
North Island: From Hicks Bay and the East Cape to Mahia Peninsula; not uncommon. Raukumara. November–January.
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.
Chatham Islands: Not uncommon, H. H. Travers, Mair! Cox! Cockayne! Rautini. December–February.
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
