CoLENso. — On New Plueiioijaiiiic PlaiiU. 469 



N.Z. Inst.," vol. xviii., p. 263) — both of these species also 

 obtained from the same interioi' mountain locality. From its 

 indumentum it will fall under the same section as the preced- 

 ing. 



3. 0. iiiiijiora, sp. nov. 



A tall shrub or snu^ll tree, " 12ft. -16ft. higli ; branches 

 very compact." Branchlets numerous, short, striate, light 

 reddish-broNYii, pubescent ; as also petioles and panicles. 

 Leaves sub-coriaceous, dryish, broadly ovate obtuse, and sub- 

 oblong-orbicular, lin.-2in. long (but rarely attaining to 2in.), 

 fin.-l|-in. broad, base sub-truncate, green, glabrous and 

 shining above, with closely-appressed starry pubescence below 

 of a light fawn-colour, with a reddish hue in the young leaves ; 

 coarsely waved ; margins entire, whitish, and slightly thick- 

 ened ; very closely and regularly reticalate, reticulations small, 

 sub-quadrate ; the rays of the starry indumentum Hat, fiexuous, 

 and acute ; petioles slender, 4-7 lines long, sub-terete, chan- 

 nelled. Panicles axillary and sub-terminal, lo]iger than 

 leaves, compound, loose, erect, slender, somewhat regular in 

 shape, neat ; peduncles and sub-peduncles about lin. long, 

 each with an adpressed ovate-acuminate bract at its base. 

 Heads small, narrow, rounded, 2i- lines long, usually 2 together 

 and sub-sessile on short secondary sub-peduncles, sometimes 

 only 1 and then pedicelled, always composed of a smgle tubu- 

 lar floret. Involucral scales green, in sub 3 rows, slightly 

 scurfy and puberulent ; the outermost sub-rhombic-ovate, acute ; 

 the inner larger, thinner, paler, oblong, tips rounded of a dark 

 lilac-colour with their margins delicately fimbriate ; lobes of 

 corolla 5 (sometimes 3), white, narrow, acuminate, entire, 

 nmch recurved forming a complete revoluted curl, tube 

 smooth ; anthers narrow linear acute, orange with a brown 

 line ; style long ; stigma large, nmch produced beyond 

 anthers, curved, spreading, yellow, tips sub-spathulate finely 

 tuberculate, their apices coloured pink. Pappus whitish with 

 a reddish hue, irregular, shorter than floret, scabrid, thickened 

 and flattened near the top, tips acute. Eeceptacle small, 

 glabrous, dark-brown, alveolate. Achenium li lines long, 

 sub-linear-cuneate, terete very slightly compressed, sti'iate, 

 bi'ownish, pubescent in the upper half. 



Hah. Hills at Ohariu, West Coast, Cook Strait, near 

 Wellington ; and cultivated at Wanstead, near Waipukurau, 

 County of Waipawa : Mrs. E. Crosse. Flowering in March, 

 and very sweet-scented. 



Ohs. According to Bentham's classification, this species 

 will belong to his j II., Asterotriche. 



