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C. areolata.—Mr. Carse informs me that the fruit requires 
from fourteen to sixteen months to ripen. 
C. crassifolia.—Mr. Colenso’s C. arcuata (Excurs. North 
Island, 84) is probably the same as this species. 
27 bis. C. rugosa, Cheesem. n. sp.—A much and densely 
branched rigid erect shrub 4-8ft. high; branches stout, 
divaricating, often interlaced, glabrous or the younger ones 
puberulous; bark fissured and uneven, dark-brown or dark 
red-brown, of the branchlets yellowish-brown. Leaves in 
opposite pairs or fascicles, +-2in. long, s4 in. broad, narrow- 
linear or narrow linear-spathulate, subacute or acute, spread- 
ing, veinless, narrowed into a short petiole or sessile; stipules 
ciliolate. Flowers involucellate, axillary, terminating minute 
arrested branchlets. Males solitary or in 2-3-flowered fas- 
cicles ; calyx wanting; corolla +in. long, campanulate, deeply 
4-partite ; stamens 4. Females solitary or rarely two together ; 
ealyx-limb 4-toothed ; corolla deeply 4-lobed. Drupe +-Lin. 
long, broadly oblong or almost globose, pale-blue, almost trans- 
lucent. 
SourH Istanp: Nelson—Buller Gorge, W. Townson! Clarence Valley, 
7, F.C. Canterbury—Arthur’s Pass and Mount Cook District, 7. F. C 
Otago—Near Dunedin, Petrie!- Sea-level to 3000 ft. 
Closely allied to C. acerosa var. brunnea, from which it differs in the 
much larger size and erect habit, longer and narrower often petioled 
leaves, in the longer calyx-lobes of the female flowers, and in the more 
oblong drupe. It is probably common in mountain districts throughout. 
the South Island. 
XXXVIII. COMPOSITZA. 
Brachycome Thomsoni var. membranifolia. — Mount 
Murchison and Brunner Mountains, alt. 2000-4000 ft., W 
Townson ! 
Olearia operina.—Add to the synonyms Eurybia operia, 
F. Muell. Veg. Chath. Is. 22. 
O. Colensoi.—Quote as a synonym Hurybia Colensoi, F. 
Muell. Veg. Chath. Is. 22. 
O. Cunninghamii.—Mount Frederic, near Westport, W. 
Townson ! 
O. excorticata.—Dr. Cockayne states (Trans. N.Z. Inst. 
XXxvii. 366) that this is not uncommon in the subalpine scrub 
of Westland, but I have seen no specimens from thence. 
