254 NOTES ON SOME COMPOSITH OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND. 
polished ornamental slabs were shown in the Industrial Exhibition at 
Dunedin, in 1865. 
A few species appear to be confined, more or less, to the west coast, 
or the central lake districts (e. g. O. operina, Hook. f.; O. Colensoi, 
Hook. f.; O. moschata, Hook. f.; O. nummularifolia, Hook: f., and 
O. Haastii, Hook. f.). Some of them are great ornaments of the scrub 
or bush on the shores of the Western Fjords, e. g. Chalky Bay (Hector). 
A few grow frequently also at considerable elevations [e.g. O. nummi- — 
larifolia and O. Haastii, up to 4500 feet, on the Canterbury Alps]. 
Haast mentions apes of Olearia as occurring among or forming 
part of the “scrub” that immediately succeeds the Fagus forest and 
Fagus scrub on the mountains of the Grey River district, on the west 
coast of Nelson, at an elevation of between 3000 and 4300 feet, where, 
moreover, they are abundant. 
atthews reported to me a supposed new species, which he desig- 
nated Eurybia salmarifolia, as occurring in the Kaikorai creeks, Green- 
island. I saw, however, no specimens, and suspect his plant is referable 
to O. virgata, Hook. f. 
Of a total of twenty New Zealand species of Olearia, at least twelve, 
or more than one-half, occur in Otago. 
1. O. nitida, Hook. f. (Eurybia, Fl. N. Z.) Banks of streams, 
ravines of the Chain Hills ; Stoneyhill bush ; November and December, 
in flower, W. L. L. A shrub only, wherever I found it. In the bush, 
Mount Cargill, Dunedin (Matthews). Common as a bush on the sandy 
soil of the river terraces of the Hokitika, on the west coast of Canter- 
bury, associated with Veronica and Coriaria bushes. On the Canter- 
bury west coast it is known as “ Ake-ake” (Haast), a term generally 
applied in other parts of New Zealand to Metrosideros scandens, or 
other species of Metrosideros, though also to O. avicenniafolia (Hector), 
and in the Chatham Islands to O. Traversii, (Travers). On the moun- 
tains of the west coast of Nelson it is abundant, at elevations of 3000 
to 4300 feet (Haast). 
One of the most ornamental species, very showy in flower; wood 
close-grained, with yellow markings (Buchanan). 
oneyhill bush specimens represent a larger, few-flowered form of 
the plant, while those from the open gullies of the Chain Hills repre- 
sent a smaller, many-flowered form. Branches in both forms glabrous 
and grooved. Tomentum most abundant, (as usual, where it occurs), 
