342 COMPOSIT. [Helichrysum. 
areole at the base. Pappus-hairs thickened at the tips.—Kirk, 
Students’ Fl. 311. Ozothamnus glomeratus, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 
Zel. i. 1383; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 146, Swammerdammia glomerata, 
Raoul, Choix, 20, t. 16. 
NortH anp SoutH Isxtanps : Not uncommon from the North Cape south- 
wards. Sea-level to 2500 ft. November—January. 
11. H. lanceolatum, 7. Kirk, Students’ Fl. 311.—Altogether 
similar to H. glomeratum, but leaves 1-14 in. long, lanceolate or 
elliptic-lanceolate, acute or subacute, narrowed into a short winged 
petiole, glabrous above, beneath clothed with white appressed 
tomentum; margins flat or slightly undulate. Heads, florets, and 
achenes precisely as in 4. glomeratwm.—Ozothamnus lanceolatus, 
Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. ti. (1870) 88. 
NortH Istanp: Mountains near Hokianga, Buchanan! alt. 2000 ft. 
Probably only a narrow-leaved variety of the preceding. I have seen no 
specimens except Mr. Buchanan’s. 
12. H. depressum, Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. 311.— 
A suberect or rarely prostrate much-branched bush 1-5 ft. high, 
hoary in all its parts with appressed greyish-white tomentum ; 
branches spreading, rigid and wiry, often tortuous. Leaves minute, 
closely appressed to the branch, laxly imbricating, ~,—,,in. long, 
linear, obtuse, concave and loosely woolly on the inner face, silky 
or woolly on the back. Heads small, }in. diam., solitary, sessile 
at the tips of the branchlets ; involucral bracts few, linear, scarious, 
acute or acuminate, rarely obtuse, glabrate or cottony at the base. 
Florets 8-12; females few, 2-3. Achene glabrous or puberulous. 
Pappus-hairs in several series, copious, slender.— Kirk, Students’ 
Fl. 311. Ozothamnus depressus, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 134, 
t. 358; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 146. 
Norty Istanp: Hawke’s Bay—Tukituki River, Petrie! SourH Isntanp: 
Not uncommon throughout, usually on shingly river-beds. 1000-4000 ft. 
December—February. 
13. H. microphyllum, Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. 311.— 
A small depressed much-branched shrub 6-15 in. high; branchlets 
slender, crowded, tomentose, with the leaves ;,-tin. diam. Leaves 
minute, closely appressed to the branch, densely and almost quadri- 
fariously imbricating, ;,—,in. long, ovate or triangular, obtuse, 
thick and coriaceous, concave and densely woolly on the inner face, 
green and polished and obscurely keeled on the back. Heads 
terminal, solitary, sessile, turbinate, 4-1 in. diam.; involucral 
bracts in about 3 series, linear-oblong, obtuse, scarious. Florets 
20-25; female few, in 1 series. Achene pubescent. Pappus-hairs 
few, not thickened at the tip.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 312. Ozotham- 
nus microphyllus, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 134, t. 354; Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. 146. 
