598 Transactions. — Botany. 



young leaves. Flowers numerous, opposite, fascicled : (1) 

 On main branches regularly distant, fin. apart, and terminal 

 on very short lateral branchlets (or spurs), 4-6 together 

 among leaves ; (2) on branchlets much closer, 4-5-fascicled, 

 covering branchlets. Heads small, eampanulate, ^in. long ; 

 peduncle 1 line long, hairy, bibracteate. Involucral scales 

 oblong, very hairy especially on margins and tips, few in 3 

 rows, the outer smallest, middle broadest with a dark central 

 line, inner longest and narrowest and more membranous. 

 Florets few ; of ray 6, lamina 4 - nerved, tip truncate, 3- 

 toothed ; style very short, as long as tube, arms short, 

 obtuse ; of disk 5, tips of their lobes ciholate. Pappus few, 

 erect, white, much shorter than florets, densely scabrid, tips 

 subacute. Achene small linear angular thickened upwards, 

 dull-brown, glabrous. 



Hah. In the Weber district. County Of Patangata, between 

 Dannevirke and the East Coast: Mr. H. Hill; November, 

 1895. 



Obs. A truly handsome shrub, from the great regularity of 

 its numerous and neat symmetrical heads of flowers in small 

 knots or bunches on its slender branches. This species be- 

 longs naturally to the same sub-section as the two former 

 ones, but is very distinct. 



4. 0. lyarvifolia, sp. nov. 



A small bushy shrub of diffuse growth, 6ft. -8ft. high, witli 

 erect twiggy branches ; branchlets slender, glabrous, angular, 

 dark-red, striate. Leaves and flowers produced together in 

 small knots or bunches, 5-7 lines apart, opposite ; leaves few, 

 3-4-6 together fascicled, very small, li-2| lines long, sub- 

 obovate tapering to base, tip obtuse and rounded, glabrous 

 and dark-green 'above (sometimes hairy, hairs substrigose 

 adpressed), densely pubescent below, hairs white (reddish in 

 young leaves), shining, short, appressed ; midrib lower half 

 prominent underneath ; petiole 1-H lines long. Heads 3-5 

 together (sometimes solitary), narrow eampanulate, sub 

 2|- lines long, patent, spreading, axillary among leaves; pe- 

 duncles slender, 2 lines long, hairy. Involucral scales hairy, 

 in three rows ; the outer 2-3-5 thickish, ovate, short, bract- 

 like, dark-coloured (may be termed bracts, but they adjoin 

 the other scales proper, and close round the head with them) ; 

 the inner thin, green, shining, sub-linear-lanceolate, concave; 

 tips acute and thickly woolly-ciliolate. Florets few, of disk 

 and of ray equal in number, usually 4 of each, sometimes 5 ; 

 ray, lamina small narrow pale-brown, tube slightly hairy, 

 style two-thirds length of lamina, arms spreading, acuminate 

 subacute ; disk florets longest, much exserted, dark-brown, 

 tube hairy, tips of lobes pubescent, anthers largely exserted 



