290 COMPOSITE. [Olearia. 
longer, linear-oblong, almost glabrous or pubescent at the tips. 
Florets 4-8; ray-florets 2-4, short, broad. _Achenes grooved, pubes- 
cent.—Students’ Fl. 272. O. angustata, Armst. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 
xii. (1881) 337. 
SoutH Istanp: Canterbury—Ashburton Mountains, Potts! Upper Rangi- 
tata, Armstrong! Otago—Resolution Island and Preservation Inlet, Hnys ! 
1500-3500 ft. January. 
Only differs from O. Haastii in the more erect habit and longer and 
narrower leaves. Intermediate forms have been collected, but the usual aspect. 
of the plant is distinct. 
24. O. (?) coriacea, Kirk, Students’ Fl. 276.—A sparingly 
branched rigid shrub 6-8 ft. high; branches erect or ascending, 
rather stout, pubescent. Leaves alternate, }-2in. long, ovate or 
orbicular-ovate, obtuse, shortly petiolate, excessively thick and 
coriaceous, glabrous above, white with appressed tomentum 
beneath; margins recurved. Flowers not seen, but the peduncles 
of the previous year’s inflorescence are about twice as long as the 
leaves, and are apparently branched at the top. 
SoutH Istanp: Marlborough—Awatere Valley and Mount Fyffe, Kirk ! 
Apparently a very distinct species, the exact position of which must remain 
doubtful until flowering specimens have been obtained. 
25. O. nummularifolia, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 127.—A much 
and closely branched shrub 2-10 ft. high ; branches stout, woody, 
scarred; vounger ones often viscid, more or less clothed with 
whitish or yellowish stellate tomentum or almost glabrous. Leaves 
alternate, close-set, erect or spreading, 4—4in. long, almost orbi- 
cular to broadly oblong or obovate, rounded at the tip, very shortly 
petiolate, excessively thick and coriaceous, shining and reticulate 
above, clothed with appressed stellate tomentum beneath ; margins 
recurved. Heads 4-41n. long, solitary, on axillary peduncles longer 
or shorter than the leaves. Involucre narrow-turbinate ; scales in 
several series, closely imbricating, tomentose or pubescent or 
almost glabrous; outer short and broad; inner linear, obtuse. 
Florets 6-12; ray-florets 3-5, rather broad. Achenes pubescent.— 
Kirk, Students’ Fil. 273. -O. Hillii, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xx. 
(1888) 194. Eurybia numnmularifolia, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i, 118. 
Var. cymbifolia, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 732.—Leaves spreading or de- 
flexed, oblong, obtuse, convex above, margins much revolute all round, hence 
boat-shaped with the cavity beneath; more or less clothed with white stellate 
tomentum. Heads as in the typical form, but scales usually more tomentose. 
NortH anp SoutH Istanps: Mountain districts from the Hast Cape and 
Taupo to Foveaux Strait, but local to the south of Lake Wanaka. Altitudinal 
range from 2000 ft. to 4500 ft., but descending to sea-level in Colac Bay, South- 
land. Var. cymbifolia: Mountain districts in the South Island, but local ; 
most plentiful in Nelson and Marlborough. 
A variable plant, especially in the size and shape of the leaves, the extent 
to which the leaf-margins are revolute, the size of the heads, and the number 
of florets. There is a specimen in Mr. Petrie’s herbarium with the heads col- 
lected in 3-5-flowered corymbs. 
