Olearia. | COMPOSITE. 283: 
8. O. Lyallii, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 116.—A_ robust 
shrub or small tree, sometimes reaching the height of 30ft., 
with a trunk 18-24in. diam.; branches stout, spreading, densely 
tomentose. Leaves 4-8in. long (or more in young plants), elliptic- 
ovate or orbicular-ovate, abruptly acuminate, shortly petiolate, 
excessively rigid and coriaceous, white with floccose tomentum above 
but becoming glabrous when old, under-surface densely clothed with 
soft white wool; margins irregularly doubly crenate. Racemes. 
terminal, stout, 4-8 in. long; rhachis, pedicels, and bracts clothed 
with snow-white wool. Heads large, discoid, 14-14in. diam., dark- 
brown; involucral scales numerous, in 4-8 series, linear, villous at 
the tips. Achenes densely silky.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 125; Kark, 
Students’ Fl. 266. Kurybia Lyalli, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 548. 
Tum Snares: Abundant, Kirk! Auoktanp Is~taNps: Apparently rare, 
Lyall, Bolton, Kirk ! 
A magnificent plant, nearly related to O. Colensoi, but at once distinguished 
by the open and far more robust habit, larger and broader leaves, which are 
tomentose on the upper surface as well as beneath, and by the scales of the 
involucre being in several series. 
9. O. Buchanani, 7’. Kirk, Students’ Fl. 267.—An erect shrub or 
small tree; branchlets as thick as a goose-quill, reddish, glabrous. 
Leaves opposite, 2-4 in. long, elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, gradually 
narrowed into a short petiole, quite entire, flat, glabrous above, 
clothed with thin appressed whitish tomentum beneath; veins 
finely reticulated above, obscure beneath. Heads small, + in. long, 
in rather loose branched axillary corymbs about equalling the 
leaves ; pedicels slender, pubescent. Involucral scales 8-10, pu- 
bescent at the tips. Florets of the ray 3-4, ligulate; of the disc 
about 4, campanulate above. Achenes short, grooved, pubescent. 
Norts Istanp: Buchanan! The exact locality not known. 
Founded on a single specimen in Mr. Kirk’s herbarium stated to have been 
collected by Mr. Buchanan in the year 1870 in some locality in the North 
Island. It is evidently a distinct species, not closely related to any other. 
It and O. Traversii are the only species found in New Zealand with large 
opposite leaves. 
10. O. Traversii, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 731.-—A small tree 
15-30 ft. high, with a trunk 1-2 ft. diam.; bark pale, furrowed ; 
branches tetragonous, clothed with appressed silky tomentum, as 
are the leaves beneath, branches of the inflorescence, and invo- 
lucres. Leaves opposite, 14-24in. long, oblong or ovate-oblong 
to broadly ovate, acute or apiculate, shortly petiolate, quite en- 
tire, flat, glabrous above or slightly silky when young. Panicles 
numerous, axillary, much-branched, shorter or longer than the 
leaves. Heads numerous, small, +in. long, discoid; scales of the 
involucre few, linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute. Florets 5-15; 
outer ones female, with a minute tubular corolla with an oblique 
mouth ; central hermaphrodite, campanulate above ; style-branches 
