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Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington Ltd.; publisher; 1889; London
Édouard Raoul; author; 1889; Paris
Galignani's Library; publisher; 1889; Paris
Overview
Plate 15 of 37 from Georgina Hetley and Édouard Raoul's Fleurs Sauvages et Boix Précieux de la Nouvelle-Zélande (1889). The coloured illustration is accompanied by the following text describing the plant:
SENECIO (BRACHYGLOTTIS) ELEAGNIFOLIUS, HOOK, fil, COMPOSÉES
Petit, mais robuste arbrisseau d’environ 2 mètres de haut. Feuilles excessivement épaisses, dures et coriaces ; surface supérieure lustrée, lisse et d’un vert brillant, couverte d’anastomoses blanches. Dessous des feuilles couvert du duvet brun, compacte. Fleurs tubulaires. Croît dans les îles du Nord et du Milieu.
Le spécimen représenté ci-contre vient des plateaux du mont Egmont ; il a été recueilli à une altitude de 360 mètres. Fleurit en janvier.
[A small robust shrub, 6 to 8 ft. high. Leaves extremely thick, hard, and leathery; upper surface glossy, smooth, and of a bright green, with white trellis-like markings; densely covered beneath with brown tomentum or hairs, hence its name; head without a ray; flowers all tubular. Hook. fil. It grows in the Northern and Middle Islands.
The specimen represented came from Mount Egmont, on the Ranges 4,000 ft. high. Flowers in January.]*
*The bulk of the English translation is taken from Te Papa's copy of Georgina Hetley's The native flowers of New Zealand (1888), RB001454.