Tas. 6592. 
OLEARIA Haasttt. 
Native of New Zealand. 
Nat. Ord. Compostt#.—Tribe ASTEROIDER. 
Genus OrEARta, Monch. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 276.) 
OtEarta Haastii ; fruticosa v. arborea, robusta, foliosa, ramulis canis, foliis breviter 
petiolatis crasse coriaceis ellipticis v. ovato- v. lineari-oblongis obtusis v. sub- 
acutis integerrimis supra glabris luride viridibus, subtus appresse albo tomentosis, 
nervis creberrime reticulatis utrinque obscuris, cymis numerosis laxis gracile 
pedunculatis corymbiformibus polycephalis, capitulis breviter pedicellatis pauci- 
floris, involucri cylindraceo-campanulati squamis duris canis oblongis obtusis, 
ligulis 3-5 albis elliptico-oblongis obtusis, pappi setis inzquilongis albis, 
acheniis angustis vix compressis subsericeis. 
O. Haastii, Hook. f. Handbook of New Zealand Flora, pp. 127, 732; Masters in 
Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 1195, ewm ic. zylog. 
This is one of the very few New Zealand plants which 
has proved hitherto to be perfectly hardy in the East of 
England ; it was introduced in 1858 by the elder Veitch, 
of Exeter, when I proposed for it the name of Hurybia 
parvifolia ; but it was subsequently described from native 
specimens by myself in 1864, under the name it now bears. 
In New Zealand it forms a small bushy tree with very 
stout branches, densely clothed with deep green foliage, 
and of a rounded form, powdered over with the numerous 
flower-heads. It has been found only in the mountains 
of the Middle Island, from the province of Canterbury, at 
4000 to 5000 feet elevation, to Otago, varying a good 
deal in habit and foliage; specimens from the northern 
locality being more stout, with short broad leaves, like 
those of our plate, whilst those from the Otago province 
have larger heads of flowers, and oblong-lanceolate leaves 
two inches long. 
The genus Olearia (which includes Hurybia) is a very 
large one, confined to New Zealand and Australia, where 
NOVEMBEB lst, 1881. 
