596 Transactions. — Botany. 



state, in confirmation of dried specimens biouglit away by 

 Mr. Hill. 



Order XXXIX. Composite:. 

 Genus I. Olearia, Mamch. 

 1. 0. consivuUs, sp. nov. 



A bushy shrub, 5ft.-6ft. high, with long slender branches ; 

 bark dark-brown, striate. Branches numerous, erect, straight 

 and drooping, opposite, angled, ribbed ; bark reddish-brown, 

 bright, shining on the younger branchlets, with more or less of 

 orange-coloured dry waxy exudation, which is also scattered on 

 leaves (beneath), and peduncles. Leaves numerous, regularly 

 distant on branchlets, 6-9 lines apart, fascicled, 5-7 together 

 on the lower and 3 on the upper part of branchlets, opposite, 

 but on iiowering branchlets the terminal portion above the 

 flowers has only single leaves opposite, erect, spreading, 

 linear or sub-linear-spathulate, 2 lines long, aV^- wide, 

 thickish, tip broadly rounded, base slightly tapering, sessile, 

 margins entire subrevolute, dark-green and slightly scaberu- 

 lous above with midrib deeply sunk, the same slightly promi- 

 nent and orange-coloured below, with close whitish shining 

 hairs. Heads many, solitary, axillary, regularly opposite 

 (in pairs) on lateral branchlets, 2-3 lines apart, subcampanu- 

 late, 4 lines long. If lines diameter ; peduncles 1 line long. 

 Involucral scales many, imbricate in 4 rows, yellow, shining, 

 with a green central stripe in their apical portion, the outer 

 broadly ovate and short, the middle narrow ovate acumi- 

 nate, the innermost longest 2f lines long, very narrow Imear- 

 lanceolate, with thin undulating shining margins, coarsely 

 ciliate-jagged. Florets few (11), as long as pappus, slender, 

 red-brown (dry) ; style-arms very long recurved brown rough- 

 isli lanceolate, tips acuminate, acute. Pappus nearly equal, 

 white, shining, slightly scabrid, tips acute. Achene linear, 

 Hattish, striate, glabrous, shining. 



Hah. Norsewood, County of Waipawa — margins of woods 

 and streamlets : M7\ A. Olseii ; 1895. (Flowering in autumn.) 



Obs. A species very near to 0. fasciculata, Col. (Trans. 

 N.Z. Inst., vol. XXV., p. 330), but differing from that species in 

 fewer rows of involucral scales, of a different colour, and free 

 from waxy exudations, &c. 



2. 0. quinqueficla, sp. nov. 



A shrub " 7ft.-8ft. high," of upright growth; branches 

 long, slender; bark darkish-brown, striate, with minute whitish 

 membranaceous scurf ; branchlets very slender and straight, 

 erect, bark red-brown, glabrous, shining, with slightly scattered 

 red scaly exudation, angled, a prominent ridge decurrent from 

 base of pair of leaves above to the next pair below. Leaves 



