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Mueller, referriug to this plant, remarks, " The leaves are 

 not unlike those of 0. colensoi." 



a. O. operina, Hook, f., Fl. N.Z., i., 115. 



A sparingly -branched shrub, 6ft. -12ft. high. Branches 

 stout, loosely tonientose. Leaves very coriaceous, spreading, 

 2in.-4in. long, white with appressed tomentum beneath, nar- 

 rowly obovate-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed into a winged 

 petiole, teeth close, obtuse, callous ; veins obscure beneath. 

 Peduncles lin.-3in. long, crowded, stout, clothed with short 

 imbricating cottony bracts. Heads large, involucral leaves 

 in 2-3 series, tomentose. _ Achenes silky. Arnica operina, 

 Forster. 



Var. /3. Branches short, stout ; leaves short, excessively 

 coriaceous, with more deeply-toothed margins. Peduncles 

 stouter. 



Hah. South Island : Martin's Bay to Preservation Inlet. 

 Sea-level to 100ft. [i, Preservation Inlet. 



It is remarkable that no drawing of this fine plant has 

 been published. The heads are often very numerous, varying 

 from four to eighteen, but more frequently from six to ten ; 

 the rays are white, the disc-florets yellow. 



At Puysegur Point an area of severiil acres was cleared 

 when the lighthouse was. erected, and is now covered with 

 dwarf specimens of this species, sparingly intermixed with 

 0. colensoi and 0. traillii, the whole presenting a singular 

 appearance owing to the co)npact strict habit, which is very 

 different from the some\\hat straggling habit of ordinary 

 specimens. 



4. O. angustifolia, Hook, f., Fl. N.Z., i., 115. 



A shrub or sniall tree, 6ft. -20ft. high, with robust tomen- 

 tose branches. Leaves 3in.-5in. long, narrow - lanceolate 

 acuminate, narrowed below, sessile, excessively rigid and cori- 

 aceous, crenate or doubly crenate or serrate, the points being- 

 hard and rounded, white with appressed tomentum beneath^ 

 midrib and principal nerves prominent beneath. Heads 

 l^in.-2in. in diameter on stout peduncles, shorter than the 

 leaves ; bracts foliaceous, imbricating, white beneath. In- 

 volucral leaves in 2 series, the outer densely tomentose. Eay- 

 florets ligulate, each with a linear scale at its base. Acheno 

 silky, grooved. Pappus short, unequal. T. Kirk, Forest 

 Flora of N.Z., t. 138. 



Hab. Exposed places by the sea, south of Paterson's Inlet, 

 Stewart Island. Sea-level to 100ft. 



The most beautiful species of the genus, and one of the 

 rarest. Flower-heads from 3 to 10; ray-florets white, 

 disc-florets violet-purple. Leaves fragrant. Distinguished 



