pure white, the other with beautiful pink flowers. Dr. L, 
Cockayne, in an account of the plants of the Chatham 
Islands, has observed considerable variation in the size, 
the marginal indentation, and the degree of indumentum 
on the under surfaces of the leaves. The latter observer 
noted particularly three plants growing side by side, 
which so far as their general appearance was concerned 
might well pass for three distinct species. It is not 
impossible that, as they grow intermixed, hybridization 
may take place between this species and QO. chathamica. . 
The two species, besides being botanically very closely 
related, bear a considerable general resemblance to each 
other, and require the same cultural treatment. A 
specimen at Kew, presented by Captain Dorrien Smith 
some years ago, has not yet flowered. 
_ Description.—Shrub up to 3-4 ft. high, sparingly 
branched; branches slender, straggling, adpressed woolly. 
Leaves many, close set, somewhat spreading, linear- 
oblanceolate, acute, gradually narrowed to the base, 
1}-27 in. long, }-3 in. wide, serrulate upwards, entire or 
nearly so towards the base, when young glabrous or 
sparingly woolly above, floccosely woolly beneath; nerves 
ascending. Heads peduncled, terminal, solitary, or very 
few towards the tips of the branches, 2-24 in. across ; 
peduncle beset with small leafy bracts, 14-2 in. long. 
Involueral bracts many, linear, rather acute, 4} in. long, 
densely woolly tomentose, glabrescent at the apex. 
fay-florets up to 50 in number, purple. Corolla with 
finely puberulous, cylindric tube, } in. long; limb linear- 
lanceolate, 3-toothed at the apex, finely puberulous | 
upwards, ¢ in. long. Disk-florets purple. Corolla with 
tube puberulous and cylindric below, somewhat campanu- 
late and glabrous upwards, 4 in. long; lobes lanceo- 
late, rather acute, very short. Anthers ya in. long. 
Style glabrous, its arms subacute. Achenes linear, very 
short, sulcate, finely glandular-pubescent. Pappus setose, 
t in. long, barbellate. 
Fig. 1, leaf-edge, showing leaf-teeth; 2, floret of the ray; 3, floret of the 
disk ; 4, a pappus-hair; 5, anthers; 6, style-arms :—all enlarged. 
