288 COMPOSITH. | Olearia. 
cels slender, tomentose. Heads numerous, small, 4—1in. long; 
involucre turbinate; scales few, lax, linear-oblong or lanceolate, 
pubescent or villous. Florets 6-10; florets of the ray 3-6. Pap- 
pus-hairs in one series. Achenes linear, striate, pubescent.—Kirk, 
Students’ Fl. 272. 
SoutH Istanp: Nelson—Mountains behind Collingwood, Dall! Mount. 
Arthur Plateau, 7. F’. C. 3000 -4500 ft. January. 
A well-marked plant, distinguished by the pale fulvous tomentum, oblong 
obtuse leaves, and small heads collected in slender much-branched panicles. 
19. O. lacunosa, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 732.—A stout 
branching shrub or small tree 5-15 ft. high; branchlets, panicles, 
petioles, and leaves beneath densely clothed with pale ferruginous 
tomentum. Leaves alternate, 3-7 in. long, 4-1 in. broad, narrow- 
linear or linear-lanceolate to linear-oblong, acute or acuminate, 
shortly petioled, quite entire or obscurely sinuate-toothed, coria- 
ceous, glabrous and reticulated above; midrib very stout and 
prominent beneath, lateral veins strong, spreading at right angles 
and dividing the under-surface into numerous sunken interspaces ; 
margins recurved. Panicles towards the tips of the branches, 
branched, slender, forming a corymbose mass 4-8in. diam. Heads 
numerous, small, £in. diam., on slender pedicels; involucre tur- 
binate; scales few, laxly imbricate, tomentose or villous. Florets 
small, 8-12, about half of them shortly rayed. Achenes grooved, 
silky.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 270. 
SoutH Istanp: Nelson—Heaphy River and mountains at the source of the 
Aorere, Dall! source ot the Takaka, Mount Arthur Plateau, Mount Owen, 
T. F. C.; Mount Murchison, Townson! Lake Rotoroa, Travers. Canterbury— 
Harper’s Pass, Haast; Poulter River, Cockayne! Wesiland—Teremakaw 
Valley, Petrie! 3000-4500 ft. January-February. 
A well-marked plant, easily known by the large linear leaves clothed with 
rusty tomentum beneath, and transversely rugose from the numerous main 
veins spreading at right angles to the midrib. 
20. O. alpina, buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. (1887) 215.—A 
shrub or small tree 8-12ft. high, with a trunk 6-8in. diam. ; 
branches, leaves below, and inflorescence covered with pale-buff or 
brown tomentum. Leaves 5-Gin. long, +in. broad, linear, entire ; 
midrib very stout, lateral veins close, diverging at right angles, 
forming a series of lacune on each side of the midrib. Panicles 
large, much-branched. Heads numerous; involucre turbinate. 
Flowers not seen. Pappus-hairs reddish.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 270. 
Nortx Istanp : Wellington—Tararua Mountains and hills towards Wa- 
nganui, Buchanan. 
I have seen no specimens of this, and the above description is adapted from 
Buchanan’s. It is evidently near to O. lacuwnosa, but appears to have narrower 
leaves. 
