late or linear. Heads campanulate, ¾–1 in. diam.; involucral bracts about 15, linear or linear-oblong, membranous, acute, glandular-pubescent. Ray-florets 12–15, yellow; ligules spreading, ⅓–½ in. long. Disc-florets numerous; limb campanulate, 5-lobed. Achenes linear, densely silky. Pappus-hairs in several series, white, rigid, scabrid.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 161; Kirk, Students Fl. 347.
North Island: Wellington—From the Pahau River to Cape Palliser; rare and local. Sea-level to 1500 ft.
A handsome species, nearest to S. laxifolius, but at once separated by the larger obtuse leaves, dense corymbs, glandular-pubescent involucral bracts, and silky achenes.
21. S. compactus, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xii. (1880) 395.—A small much-branched compact shrub 2–3 ft. high and 3–6 ft. diam.; branches, petioles, leaves beneath, and inflorescence densely clothed with appressed snow-white tomentum. Leaves on slender petioles ¼–½ in. long; blade ¾–1½ in., obovate or oblong-obovate, obtuse, rounded or narrowed at the base, coriaceous, glabrous above except a cottony line at the margin, obscurely crenulate or sinuate. Heads broadly campanulate, ¾–1 in. diam., in 4–8-flowered terminal leafy racemes; involucral bracts about 12, linear, acute, densely tomentose. Ray-florets about 12, yellow; ligules broad, spreading. Disc-florets very numerous; limb funnel-shaped, 5-toothed. Achenes linear, grooved, silky. Pappus-hairs white, minutely scabrid.— Students' Fl. 349.
North Island: Wellington—Limestone cliffs near Castlepoint, Kirk! January–February.
Closely allied to S. Monroi, but differing in the larger broader leaves with smoother and whiter tomentum beneath, narrow few-flowered inflorescence, and the white cottony tomentum of the pedicels and involucral bracts.
22. S. Monroi, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii. 333.—A much-branched woody shrub 2–6 ft. high; branchlets, petioles, and leaves beneath clothed with appressed whitish tomentum. Leaves shortly petioled, ½–1½ in. long, narrow-oblong or oblong-obovate, obtuse, narrowed into the petiole, coriaceous, glabrous above; margins wrinkled and crenate. Corymbs terminal, lax, leafy, slightly viscid; peduncles clothed with white tomentum; pedicels slender, glandular-pubescent. Heads numerous, broadly turbinate, ½–⅔ in. diam.; involucral bracts 10–15, linear, acute, membranous, glandular-pubescent. Ray-florets 10–15, yellow; ligules ¼ in. long, broad, revolute. Disc-florets numerous; limb funnel-shaped, 5-toothed. Achenes linear, grooved, hispid with short white hairs. Pappus-hairs white, slender, minutely scabrid.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 162; Kirk, Students' Fl. 348.
South Island: Nelson—Wangapeka, Kingsley! Jollie's Pass, T.F.C. Marlorough—Not uncommon from the Awatere to the Conway River. 1000–4500 ft. December–January.
