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31. O. Hectori, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 128.—An erect 
much-branched deciduous shrub 5-15ft. high; branches slender, 
grooved, glabrous; bark dark red-brown. Leaves in opposite fas- 
cicles, variable in size and shape, #-14in. long, linear-obovate or 
linear-spathulate to oblong or obovate, obtuse, narrowed into a 
slender petiole, thin and membranous, glabrous above when mature, 
silky when young, beneath clothed with thin silvery tomentum ; 
margins flat, entire. Heads in opposite fascicles of 2-5; peduncles 
4_4 in. long, slender, drooping, silky. Involucre broad and shallow, 
cup-shaped; bracts in 2 series, lax, spreading, linear-oblong or 
-obovate, obtuse, woolly. Florets 20-25; ray-florets 12-17, small, 
with a narrow ray; disc-florets about 8, much larger, mouth funnel- 
shaped. Achenes linear-obovoid, grooved, silky.—Kirk, Students’ 
Fl. 274. 
Souru Istanp: Marlborough — Pelorus Sound, Rutland! Canterbury — 
Banks Peninsula, J. B. Armstrong. Otago — Lake district, Hector and 
Buchanan ; Kaitangata, Catlin’s River, Invercargill, Kawarau Gorge, Matuki- 
tuki Valley, Petrie ! Sea-level to 2500 ft. October—November. 
32. O. odorata, Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxiii. (1891) 399.— 
An erect much-branched shrub 6-12 ft. high; branches divaricat- 
ing, stout, terete, grooved. Leaves opposite, usually fascicled, 
4-1 in. long, linear-spathulate or linear-obovate, rounded at the tip, 
narrowed into very short petioles or almost sessile, coriaceous, 
glabrous or silky above, clothed with soft white tomentum beneath ; 
margins flat, entire. Heads in opposite fascicles of 2-5 on short 
arrested branchlets; peduncles short, stout, silky. Involucre 
broadly campanulate; bracts in 3-4 series, linear-oblong, obtuse, 
dark-brown, viscid and glandular. Florets numerous, 20-35 ; ray- 
florets 8-18, short; corolla of disc-florets viscid and glandular. 
Achenes silky.—Kirk, Students’ F'l. 276. 
SoutH Is~tanp: Mountain districts in Canterbury, Westland, and Otago; 
not uncommon. 1000-3000 ft. January-February. 
Closely allied to O. virgata, but distinguished by the terete branchlets, 
larger leaves, many-flowered heads, and viscid and glandular involucral bracts. 
33. O. laxiflora, 7. Kirk, Students’ Fl. 275.—A large erect 
much-branched shrub 6-12 ft. high ; branches slender, divaricating, 
sometimes almost pendulous, terete or obscurely tetragonous. 
Leaves opposite or in opposite fascicles, 4-1 in. long, narrow linear- 
spathulate or linear-oblong, obtuse, narrowed into very short 
petioles, coriaceous, glabrous above, beneath clothed with closely 
appressed white tomentum. Heads numerous, 5-15, in opposite 
fascicles on short arrested branchlets ; peduncles slender, 3 in. long, 
glabrate or silky. Involucre campanulate ; bracts few, lax, linear- 
oblong, villous at the tips. Florets 6-8; ray-florets 3-4, broad. 
Achenes grooved, silky. 
SoutH Isnanp: Westland—Hokitika, H. Tipler ! 
