Tas. 7065. 
OLEARIA macroponta. 
Native of New Zealand, 
Nat. Ord. Comprostra.—Tribe AsTEROIDE. 
Genus Oveania, Moench; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. vol. ii. p. 276, 
OveaRria macrodonta, arbor parva, ramis patentibus, ramulis paniculis foliisque 
subtus appresse albo-pubescentibus, foliis petiolatis coriaceis oblongis 
lineari-oblongisve acutis v. acuminatis grosse dentatis, basi rotundatis, 
nervis numerosis supra depressis cum costa obtusangulum efficientibus, 
corymbis terminalibus amplis mniti-densifloris, capitulis } poll. diam., 
involucri late campanulati bracteis paucis pubescenti-pilosis, floribus radii 
10-30 ligulis oblongis, disci paucis rufescentibus, pappi setis uniseriatis, 
acheniis pilosis. 
O. macrodonta, Baker in Gard, Chron. 1884, vol. i. p. 604, and 1886, vol. ii- 
p- 304, fig. 62. 
O. dentata, Hook. f. in Handbook of New Zeald. Flora, p. 126. 
Eurybia dentata, var. a, Hook. f. Fl. Nov, Zeald. vol. i. p. 118. 
One of the numerous Daisy trees of New Zealand, and 
perhaps the most conspicuous from the great abundance of 
its broad white corymbs, which terminate every branchlet, 
and together cover the plant with a white sheet of flowers. 
I originally described it in the Flora Nove Zelandize under 
Hurybia (as E. dentata), a genus separated by Cassini from 
Olearia by its uniseriate pappus, and retained by De Can- 
dolle. A further study of the Australian and New Zealand 
Species of the two genera convinced me that they could 
not be kept apart, and I united them in the Handbook of 
the New Zealand Flora, where I inadvertently retained the 
Specific name of dentata, overlooking the fact that it was 
preoccupied for an Australian species. In consequence of 
this, Mr. Baker, in the ‘“ Gardener’s Chronicle,’ changed 
the name to O. macrodonta ; but whether this will be main- 
tained is doubtful, for O. macrodonta is so closely allied to 
my O. ilicifolia, that further material may prove that they — 
are one and the same species, in which case the latter 
name will claim precedence. Such are the difficulties 
as to nomenclature that beset the pioneers of Floras, 
JuLY Ist, 1889. 
