294 COMPOSITE. [Olearia. 
Very similar to O. odorata in habit and appearance, but the fascicles are 
larger and much more lax, the peduncles longer, the involucral bracts not viscid 
nor glandular, and the florets much fewer in number. 1 have only seen two 
specimens. 
34. O. virgata, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 128.—An erect much- 
branched shrub 4-10 ft. high, often forming dense thickets ; branches 
spreading, stout or slender, tetragonous or almost terete, smooth or 
grooved, glabrous or pubescent when young; bark dark red-brown. 
Leaves opposite or in opposite fascicles, 1-4 in. long, linear-obovate 
or linear-spathulate, obtuse, narrowed into a short petiole or sessile, 
coriaceous, glabrous or silky above, clothed with white appressed 
tomentum beneath. Heads solitary or fascicled, on short arrested 
opposite branchlets, shortly pedunculate or almost sessile. In- 
volucre broadly turbinate; bracts in about 3 series, linear-oblong, 
tomentose or villous or almost glabrous. Florets 5-12; ray- 
florets 3-6, short, slender; disc-florets often with villous tips to 
the corolla-lobes. Achenes small, linear, glabrous or slightly 
pubescent.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 275. O.quinquefida, Col. im Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xxviii. (1896) 596. O. aggregata, Col. l.c. 597. O. par- 
vifolia, Col. l.c. 598. Hurvbia virgata, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 119. 
Var. ramulifiora, Kirk, Students’ Fl. 276.—Leaves in opposite fascicles of 
2-6, rather larger, }-?in. long, flat. Heads more numerous, in fascicles of 2-6 ; 
peduncles slender, often tin. long or more, silky. Involucres tomentose or 
villous. Florets 7-12.—O. ramuliflora, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii. (1890) 
467. 
Var. lineata, Kirk, Students’ Fl. 276.— Branchlets more slender, spreading, 
often silky-pubescent. Leaves 3-Idin. long, very narrow-linear, glabrate or 
silky above, tomentose beneath; margins much revolute. Heads fascicled ; 
peduncles slender, silky. Involucre villous or tomentose. Florets 12-20. 
Nort AND SoutH Istanps: From the Thames Valley and Rotorua south- 
wards ; not uncommon. Sea-level to 3000 ft. December—January. 
35. O. Solandri, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fil. 128.—An erect 
much - branched shrub 5-15 ft. high; branches stout, spreading, 
angled, often viscid, usually more or less clothed with pale-yellowish 
pubescence. Leaves of young plants opposite, +—tin. long, linear- 
obovate or -spathulate, narrowed into short petioles, membranous, 
flat, white beneath; of mature plants in opposite fascicles, 14in. 
long, narrow-linear or linear-obovate, obtuse, narrowed into very 
short petioles, coriaceous, glabrous above, beneath clothed with pale- 
yellowish tomentum; margins recurved. Heads 4-+in. long, 
solitary, sessile, terminating short lateral branchlets. Involucre 
narrow-turbinate; scales in 3-4 series, numerous, imbricate, obtuse 
or subacute, bright fulvous, pubescent or viscid. Florets 8-20; 
ray-florets 5-14, ray short. Achenes grooved, pubescent.—Kork, 
Students’ Fl. 276. O. fasciculifolia, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxv. 
(1893) 3830. O. consimilis, Col. l.c. xxviil. (1896) 596. Eurybia 
Solandri, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 119. 
