Olearia. | COMPOSITE. 287 
petioles stout or slender, }-1}in. long. Panicles very large, wide- 
spreading, much-branched. Heads numerous, +-4in. diam., cam- 
panulate; scales of the involucre in several series, lanceolate or 
-ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, tomentose or villous or nearly 
glabrous. Florets 12-24; ray-florets the most numerous; ligules 
short, broad. Pappus-hairs white or reddish, unequal. Achenes 
‘quite glabrous or rarely with a few scattered hairs.—Kirk, Forest 
Fil. t. 114; Students’ Fl. 269. Hurybia Cunninghamii, Hook. f. Fl. 
Nov. Zel. i. 117, t. 80. Brachyglottis Rani, A. Cunn. Precur. 
n. 465. 
Var. colorata, Kirk, Students’ F'l. 269.—Leaves narrower, oblong-lanceolate 
to lanceolate. Otherwise as in the type.—O. colorata, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 
xii. (1880) 362. 
North and SourH Isnanps: Abundant in woods from the North Cape to 
Marlborough and Nelson. Sea-level to 2500 ft. Heketara. October- 
November. 
A very variable plant. The leaves are sometimes coarsely toothed and at 
other times almost entire; the involucral scales vary from linear-oblong and 
densely tomentose to linear and almost glabrous. Mr. Kirk describes the var. 
-colorata as having the scales nearly glabrous, but they are densely tomentose in 
Mr. Colenso’s type specimens and in all others that I have seen. 
17. O. excorticata, Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. vi. (1874) 241,.— 
A small much-branched shrub or smail tree 12-15 ft. high, with a 
‘trunk 1 ft. in diam.; bark loose, papery; branchlets grooved, and 
with the panicles, petioles, and leaves beneath clothed with dirty- 
white or buff tomentum. Leaves alternate, 14-4in. long, 4-1 in. 
broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, shortly 
petiolate, coriaceous, glabrous and finely reticulated above; lateral 
veins spreading, but hardly at right angles; margins flat, obscurely 
sinuate-dentate. Panicles longer than the leaves, branched, corym- 
bose; pedicels slender, densely tomentose. Heads numerous, small, 
~-4in. long; involucre narrow-turbinate ; outer scales small, ovate, 
tomentose ; inner linear-oblong, obtuse, villous at the tips. Florets 
about 12; ray-florets 5-7. Pappus-hairs slender, in one series. 
Achenes grooved, hispid.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 270. 
NortH Isuanp: Tararua Mountains, Mitchell! Mount Holdsworth, 7. P. 
Arnold! Soutu Isuanp: Mr. H. J. Matthews has sent specimens from a culti- 
vated plant raised from seed obtained in the Nelson District. 
18. O. suavis, Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxiv. (1892) 409. 
—A densely branched shrub or small tree 6-18 ft. high ; branches 
stout; branchlets, panicles, and under-surface of leaves clothed 
with pale-yellowish or fulvous tomentum. Leaves alternate, 
#-14 in. long, 4-3 in. broad, linear-oblong or oblong to ovate, obtuse 
at both ends, shortly petiolate, coriaceous or almost membranous, 
entire or obscurely sinuate, glabrous above; lateral veins conspi- 
cuous beneath, spreading almost at right angles. Panicles much 
Jonger than the leaves, slender, corymbose, much-branched ; pedi- 
