Olearia. | COMPOSIT. 295 
NortH Isuanp: From the North Cape southwards, plentiful near the 
coast. SourH IsnaAnp: D’Urville Island, Bryant ; Queen Charlotte and Pelorus 
Sounds, Rutland! MacMahon. Sea-level to 1000 ft. February—May. 
5. PLEUROPHYLLUM, Hook. f. 
Tall handsome silky robust perennial herbs. Leaves mostly 
radical, large, entire, many-nerved. Heads large, racemed at the 
top of the stem. Involucre broadly campanulate or hemispherical ; 
bracts in 2-3 series, herbaceous. Receptacle flat, pitted. Ray- 
florets female, ligulate, in 1-8 series; ligule long or short. Disc- 
florets many, regular, tubular, campanulate at the mouth, 
4-5-toothed. Anthers shortly and obtusely auricled at the base. 
Style-branches of the disc-florets flattened, with lanceolate tips. 
Achenes compressed, striated, densely setose. Pappus-hairs in 2-3 
series, copious, rigid, scabrid, unequal. 
The genus is limited to the three following species, and is confined to the 
outlying islands to the south of New Zealand. It is very closely allied to 
Celmisia, from which it is separated rather by the very distinct and peculiar 
habit than by any structural characters of importance. 
Ray-florets with a conspicuous rav. Leaves large, 
6-18 in., sessile by a broad base 3 Me sts 
Ray-florets short, inconspicuous. Leaves large, 1-4 ft., 
petiolate, green’ above ; 4G St : 
Ray-florets short, inconspicuous. Leaves smaller, 6-12 in., 
petiolate, white and silvery on both surfaces .. .. 3, P. Hookert. 
1. P. specioswim. 
2. BP. criniferum. 
1. P. speciosum, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 31, t. 22, 23.—Leaves 
chiefly radical, spreading horizontally all round the base of the 
stem, 6-18in. long, 4-l0in. broad, broadly ovate or obovate, 
sessile by a broad base, thick and coriaceous, quite entire, furnished 
with 15-20 stout longitudinal parallel ribs, villous and tomentose 
‘beneath, above slightly setose, with the bristles more or less mixed 
with moniliform hairs. Cauline leaves few, oblong-lanceolate. 
Flowering-stems several, 14-3 ft. high, ending in a raceme of 8-20 
heads; bracts numerous, linear. Heads 14-24in. diam.; disc- 
florets dark-purple; ray-florets with a conspicuous ligule, light- 
purple or almost whitish. Achenes densely silky-strigose. Pappus- 
hairs not thickened at the tips—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 129; Kirk wn 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii. (1891) 483; Students’ Fl. 277. 
AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL IsLANDS: Abundant from sea-level to nearly 
1000 ft. December—January. 
A truly noble plant, at once recognised by the large purple heads with 
conspicuous spreading rays. 
2. P. criniferum, Hook. 7. Fl. Antarct. i. 32, t. 24, 25.—Radical 
leaves variable in size and shape, 1-4ft. long, 4-12in. broad, 
orbicular-ovate or broadly oblong to ovate-lanceolate or obovate- 
lanceolate, acute, narrowed into a sheathing petiole of variable 
length, firm but membranous, clothed with thin white tomentum 
