468 Transactions. — Bota ny. 



According to Bentham's arrangeinent, from the composition 

 of its indumentmn this plant will belong to his Section I., 

 Dlccrotvkhc. It is a ver>- handsome shrub M'hen in flower. 



2. 0. eriithroiKipija, sp. nov. 



" Shrub 7ft. -9ft. high." Branchlets rather long, open, 

 striate ; bark pale reddish-brown, hairy ; hairs closely ap- 

 pressed. Leaves alternate, distant, sub-orbicular, 3iin. and 

 3in. long by 2iin. wide, fiat, membranaceous, glabrous above 

 (having a fe\v short, scattered adpressed white hairs when 

 young), with closely-appressed light-greyish narrow fusiform 

 peltate hairs below," of a pale-reddish hue when young, finely 

 reticulate ; midrib and principal veins below very hairy ,^ dark 

 red-brown ; margins sinuate or sinuate-toothed, their sinutses 

 few, large, shallow ; base sub-truncate ; tip slightly produced, 

 sometimes sub-apiculate ; petiole slender, lin.-l^in. long, 

 striate, hairy. Leaves much smaller aiid narrower on flower- 

 ing branches near the flowers, lin.-l|in. long, oblong and more 

 closely sinuate-toothed or sub-crenate. Heads reddish, in 

 small graceful slender open corymbs, axillary and sub-ter- 

 minal. Sin. long, with a long linear brown hairy bract at base 

 of each branch of corymb; peduncle striate, densely covered 

 with red-brown appressed hairs with a few scattered whitish 

 ones; secondary peduncles sub lin. long with 3-4 heads on 

 long slender pedicels ; pedicels sub ^-in. long, hairy, with a 

 small bracteole about the middle. Head small, spreading, 

 about 4 lines diameter. Involucral scales sub 20 in three 

 rows, the outer shortest, sub-hnear-ovate, very hairy ; hairs 

 fawn-colour ; the middle ones with a central hairy line ; the 

 inner longest, 2 lines long (twice the length of the others), 

 glabrous, very thin, red-brown, much ciliate. Florets few, 

 sub 20 in all \ of the ray, limb narrow recurved, tip with 3 

 blunt notches, tube rather long, slender, base spreading, 

 hairy ; hairs obtuse, somewhat septate or transparent with a 

 dark twisted centre; style long, exserted ; stigmas long, 

 spreading, glabrous, curved, tips slightly scabrid : of the 

 disc, corolla glabrous, 6-cleft, tips obtuse, muricated, stem 

 slender, hairy ; stigmas scabnd. Keceptacle small, pitted, 

 edges slightly scaly. Pappus short, shorter than disc-florets, 

 irregular in length, scabrid, tips acute ; the upper portion 

 bright-red, showy. Achene narrow, linear, terete, very 

 hair v. 



Hah. Thickets, base of Mount Euapehu, County of East 

 Taupo ; 1889 : Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. This species differs considerably from all the many 

 indigenous species described by Sir J. D. Hooker : its nearest 

 aftinities seem to be with 0. i^oimlifoJia, Col. ("Trans. N.Z. 

 List.," vol. xiii., p. 243), and 0. suhorhiculata , Col. ("Trans. 



