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apex; the inner narrower, linear-lanceolate, acute: all the bracts hispid on the back. Florets of the ray female, ligulate, acute, recurved; style slender, inclined, stigma linear, bifid, rounded at the apex, minutely papillose.
Glossogyne hennedyi, Brown, nat. size. Florets of the disc tubular, from two to ten, hermaphrodite; corolla five-lobed hispid at the spreading and slightly recurved apex; style shorter and stouter than in the ligulate florets, the stigma strongly papillose, bifid, linear, blunt at the apex; stamens five, inserted on the corolla, filaments free, shorter than the anthers, anthers scarcely cohering, obtuse at the base and without any terminal appendage; pappus of six to eight irregular awns, two or three of which are long and spreading, the others very short. There are always either three or five patent awns on one of the angles, and of these the centre one is longer than the others. All the awns are slightly confluent at the base and all are barbed with retrorse, single-celled, stiff hairs. Achenes sub-tetragonous, obconic, slightly compressed, hispid, with two of the angles minutely winged; very persistent on the receptacle.

Hab. Godley Head, Banks Peninsula; on clay soil facing the north. Flowering from September to March.

This species differs from Glossogyne in the short peduncles, the rounded apex of the stigma; the obconic achenes, and greater number of awns, as well as their peculiar arrangement. I have named it after Mr. Koger Hennedy, lecturer on botany at Andersonian University, Glasgow, my former teacher.