CoLENSo. — 071 Neiv PluPHOijams. 597 



numerous, decussate, sub-linear- spathulate, 2-2|- lines long, 

 scarcely -j line broad, erect, opposite and sub-fascicled 3-4-5 

 together, the bases of the outer pair semiclasping and meet- 

 ing around the stem, margins entire, revolute, green gla- 

 brous and slightly scurfy above, densely hairy below ; hairs 

 whitish-grey, coarse and dull ; petioles short, stout, those of 

 the outermost pair of leaves thickened at bases. Flowers 

 numerous, heads narrow, campanulate, 2 lines long, solitary, 

 sometimes 2 (rarely 3) together, opposite, 4-6 lines apart on 

 branch, regular and extending nearly throughout long branches, 

 and on very short lateral branchlets, axillary, sessile, sur- 

 rounded by leaves. Involucral scales in 7-8 rows, broadly 

 ovate-obtuse, closely imbricate, bright-yellow, glabrous, their 

 centres pale with closely appressed hairs, and a line at apex, 

 the outermost very small increasing in size upwards, the 

 innermost 2-2-i- lines long, thin, brownish and shining within 

 and largely reverted at maturity, their margins rumpled and 

 slightly jagged. Florets very few, slender, as long as pappus ; 

 disk, lamina deeply cut into 4-5 linear lobes, their margins 

 thickened and dark-coloured, tips acute hairy ; style longer 

 than corolla, arms filiform very long, rough, jagged, tips 

 obtuse but not truncate ; ray, lamina very narrow, revolute, 8- 

 nerved, tip 3-toothed ; style-arms shorter than lamina. Pap- 

 pus numerous, patent, spreading, slightly scaberulous, tips 

 acute, whitish with a pale reddish - brown hue. Achenes 

 small, glabrous, pale, subangular, slightly striate, thickened 

 at top. 



Hah. Hilly country near Lake Tutira, County of Wairoa, 

 Hawke's Bay : Mr. Guthrie- Smith ; 1895. 



Ohs. A species much resembling and having close aftinity 

 with the preceding one, 0. consimilis, but differing in invo- 

 lucral scales ; in the maiiy-lobed lamina of its disk-florets, 

 with their peculiar-coloured margins ; in its very long style- 

 iirms ; and in its spreading, reverted, shining, brown involucres 

 after flowering, that give it a curious appearance. 



<i. 0. aggreyata, sp. nov. 



A thickly-branched shrub, 5ft. -6ft. high; branchlets 1ft. 

 or more long, very slender, simple, rarely forked, subangu- 

 lar ; bark dark-red-brown, glabrous, much coarsely striate. 

 Leaves few, distant, opposite, fascicled 6-8 together, forming 

 very small lateral branchlets, oblong -lanceolate, 3-5 lines 

 long, Ih lines wide, not thick, petiolate, margins entire and 

 slightly recurved; tips subacute, dark -green and glabrous 

 above, densely pubescent below ; hairs appressed, white shin- 

 ing with a reddish tint, flat, lanceolate, acute, centrally fixed ; 

 midrib showing full-length beneath, its hairs also being darker ; 

 petiole 1 line long, hairy ; hairs reddish, glossy, and so the 



