which have to be elaborated from the examination of, 
often solitary, Herbarium specimens. 
O. macrodonta differs from O. ilicifolia in the larger 
leaves with rounded bases, which turn a pale buff when 
dried. Both are natives of the mountainous districts of 
the Northern Island, where (on the Ruahine range) they 
were discovered by Colenso; they both extend. through 
the Southern Island to Otago; and both smell faintly of 
musk. 0. macrodonta is the larger plant of the two, 
attaining twenty feet in height and spread of branches, 
with a trunk thirty inches in diameter: its wood affords 
a poor veneer. 
The specimen here figured was from a. plant presented 
to Kew by W. E. Gumbleton, Esq., of Belgrove, Co. Cork, 
which flowered on a south wall in June, 1888, where it 
had stood without protection for three years. 
Descr. A tree about twenty feet high, with spreading 
branches, smelling faintly of musk ; branchlets, leaves 
beneath and corymbs covered with an appressed subsilvery 
pubescence. Leaves alternate, petioled, three to four 
inches long, coriaceous, oblong or linear-oblong, acute or 
acuminate, subsinuately sharply deeply toothed; base 
rounded or cuneate, above dark green (young pubescent), 
with many impressed nerves that form an obtuse angle — 
with the midrib; petiole one to one and a half inches long, 
stout, reddish. Corymbs six inches and upwards in 
diameter, profusely branched, more or less flat-topped. 
Heads half an inch in diameter and more; involucre cam- 
panulate ; bracts few, oblong, subacute, pubescent, greenish 
with brown tips. Ray-flowers ten to thirty, with oblong 
three-toothed ligules; disk-flowers few, reddish ; pappus 
of one series of rigid scabrid white or reddish hairs. 
Achene cylindric, pubescent.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower of the ray; 2, pappus hair; 3, flower of the disk; 4, 
stamens ; 5, style-arms :—ull enlarged. 
