282 COMPOSITA, [Olearia. 
A very handsome plant, distinguished from O. operina by the larger size, 
narrower and longer leaves with the veins evident beneath, large foliaceous 
bracts, and larger heads with deep-purple disc-florets. The flowers are highly 
fragrant. 
6. O. Traillii, 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi. (1884) 372.—A 
shrub or small tree 10-15 ft. high or more; branches stout, densely 
clothed with soft white tomentum. Leaves crowded at the tips of 
the branches, spreading, 3-6in. long, 1-14 in. broad, lanceolate or 
narrow obovate-lanceolate, acuminate, gradually narrowed into a 
short broad petiole, very thick and coriaceous, glabrous above or 
slightly cottony when young, clothed with white tomentum beneath ; 
margins irregularly doubly crenate-dentate. Racemes terminal, 
erect, 4-10in. long, 3-8-headed ; bracts large, leafy, 1-2 in. long; 
rhachis, peduncles, and under-surface of bracts white with ap- 
pressed tomentum. Heads lin. diam.; involucral scales in 2-3 
series, linear, scarious, villous at the tips. Ray-florets shortly 
ligulate, white; disc-florets violet-purple. Achenes linear, grooved, 
silky.—Forest Fl. t. 142; Students’ Fl. 265. 
Stewart Isuanp: Near the sea in the southern part of the island, rare and 
local, Kirk ! November—December. 
A very fine plant, closely allied to O. Colensoi, but easily separated by the 
narrower leaves and rayed flower-heads. 
7. O. Colensoi, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 115, t. 29.—A stout 
closely branched shrub 4-10ft. high, more rarely forming a small 
tree 15-30 ft. or more, with a trunk 12-24 in. diam. Leaves spread- 
ing, variable in size and shape, 2-6in. long, obovate or oboyate- 
oblong to oblong-lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, acute or rarely 
obtuse, narrowed into a short stout petiole, excessively thick and 
coriaceous, acutely irregularly serrate or doubly serrate, glabrous 
and shining above when mature, cottony when young, under-sur- 
face clothed with dense white appressed tomentum. Racemes 
several at the tips of the branches, tomentose, 3-8in. long, bearing 
4-10 pedicelled heads ; bracts loosely placed. Heads 2-lin. diam., 
discoid, dark brownish-purple; involucral scales in 1-2 series, 
linear, glabrous or villous at the tips. Florets all tubular ; female 
in a single row, corolla usually 3-lobed; hermaphrodite broader, 
campanulate above. Achenes grooved, silky.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 124 ; 
Kirk, Forest Fl. 102; Students’ Fi. 265. 
Norta Isuanp: Mount Hikurangi, Ruahine Mountains, Tararua Moun- 
tains, alt. 3000-5500 ft. SourH Ishanp: Common on the mountains on the 
western side of the Island, descending to sea-level in the sounds of the south- 
west coast. Stewart Istanp: Abundant from sea-level to the tops of the hills. 
Tupari. December—January. 
A very handsome plant. On the mountains it usually forms a densely 
branched shrub, but at low levels on Stewart Island it attains the dimensions 
of a small tree. 
