Tas. 4638, 
OLEARIA Gunniana. 
Mr. Gunn's Olearia. 
Nat. Ord. Compostt#.—SyNnGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
’ Gen. Char. Capitulum multiflorum, heterogamum, floribus radii 1-seriatis ligu- 
latis foemineis, disci tubulosis hermaphroditis 5-dentatis. Receptaculum alveo- 
latum, planiusculum, pedunculo apice cavo obconico insidens. Jnvolucri squame 
imbricaté, adpresse, post fructificationem patentes. Stamina radii abortiva, 
disci filamentis brevissimis donata. Stigmata disci cochleariformia. Achenium 
cylindraceo-tetragonum, ‘villosum. Pappus duplex, exterior brevis paleaceo- 
setosus, interior setosus longus scaber.—Frutices Novo-Hollandici facie Kurybie. 
Folia alterna, petiolata, ovata, repanda seu obtuse dentata aut integra, supra sparse 
villosa, subtus ramique dense tomentosa. Pedunculi 1-cephali, rigiduli, ad apices 
ramorum 1-3. Discus flavus. Radius albus seu carneus. 
OLEARIA Gunniana; fruticosa, ramis pedunculis involucris foliisque subtus 
dense cano-tomentosis, foliis elliptico-lanceolatis brevissime petiolatis sinu- 
ato-dentatis supra glabratis, pedunculis in ramulos breves subterminalibus 
solitariis vel subeorymbosis bracteolatis, capituli radiis albis, acheniis tuber- 
culato-punctatis. 
Oveart1A Gunniana. Hook. fil. MS. 
Eurysra Gunniana. De Cand. Prodr. v. 5. p. 268. 
This is another interesting plant of Van Diemen’s Land, which 
braves the cold of England, and even the vicinity of London, 
provided it be trained against a wall. In such a position it has 
long been cultivated in the Royal Gardens of Kew, flowering 
copiously late in the autumn. We wish it had more beauty to 
recommend it. It was raised from seeds sent by Mr. Gunn, 
by whom, as its name implies, it was first detected. We think 
Dr. Hooker has properly referred it to Olearia, and that Hurybia 
subrepanda, De Cand., is merely one of the many forms of the 
same variable species: variable especially in the size and incision 
of the leaves, and scarcely less so in the length of the peduncles 
and the more or less crowded flowers. Sometimes the blossoms 
are as copious as the leaves. 
Drscr. A moderate-sized bushy shrub, very much branched, 
ultimate 4ranches often very short. Leaves numerous, varying 
much in length in our native specimens, from half an inch to 
MARCH lst, 1852. 
