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vol. xxi., p. 80), but differs in several characters. Sheep rest 

 under its shade, and cattle browse on its young drooping 

 branches, often without biting them off, owing to their tough- 

 ness, leaving an unsightly chewed mass of dead hanging 

 fibres ; just as they do with chewed Phormium leaves, and 

 the young flowering-culms of Arundo conspicua. 



Order XXXIX. Composite. 

 Genus 1. Olearia, Msench. 



1. 0. fasciculi folia, sp. nov. 



A low bushy shrub, 4ft.— 5ft. high. My single specimen, 

 top of a branch Gin. long, contains many close subdecussate 

 branchlets, from 5in. to lin. in length, the longer ones being 

 again branched. Branchlets erect and suberect, slender, 

 straight, opposite, semi-whorled, angled ; bark reddish-brown, 

 striate, with more or less of orange-coloured dry waxy exuda- 

 tion, which is also scattered on leaves and more largely on 

 involucre. Leaves few, distant, fascicled in 3 and 4, opposite, 

 erect and patent, linear-oblong or sub-linear-spathulate, 1^-2 

 (rarely 3) lines long, less than 1 line wide, thickish, tip rounded-, 

 base tapering, margins entire narrowly revolute and ap- 

 pressed, dark-green glabrous above, greyish-white below with 

 closely-appressed hairs ; lower half of midrib prominent below; 

 petiole short, stout. Heads single, scattered, axillary on 

 lower half of branchlets, sometimes 2 together subfascicled, 

 campanulate, 2 lines diameter; pedicels short, sub 1 line, 

 stout. Involucral scales many, imbricate in 6-7 rows, orange- 

 coloured with blackish dark-green central stripe, the lower- 

 most small, obtuse ; middle much larger, ovate, acute ; inner- 

 most row very narrow acuminate, 2-2-i- lines long. Florets 

 few, produced beyond pappus, black when dry, very slender, 

 weak, subreflexed. Pappus scanty, straight, glossy, nearly 

 equal, scabrid, white, tips acute. Achene semi-terete, linear, 

 1 line long, grooved, thickest at top, pale, glabrous, shining. 

 Disc smoothish, shining, pitted. 



Hah. Open lands between Dannevirke and Weber, County 

 of Waipawa ; 1892 : Mr. H. Hill. Flowering late in May. 



Genus 17. Senecio, Linn. 



1. S. multinerve, sp. nov. 



" A low spreading shrub, about 4ft. high." My specimen, 

 a branch 9in. long (torn off from a larger one), shortly spread- 

 ing into 3 slender erect branches, glabrous (and slightly-scat- 

 tered puberulent whitish hairs), bark furrowed reddish-brown. 

 Leaves few, distant, scattered, thin, spreading, oblong-lanceo- 

 late and linear-elliptic, lin.-lfin. long, 4-6 lines broad, tips 

 very obtuse subtruncate, base tapering, glabrous above, 



