NOTES ON SOME COMPOSITJE OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND. 259 
Buchanan, in the N. Z. Exhib. Catalogue (p. 68), mentions the fol- 
lowing also as Otago specie 
3. S. rotundifolius, Hook. " The “ Puheritaiko"* of the South Is- 
land Maori (Lyall). A very ornamental shrub-tree of west coast. 
Flowers in corymbs. Leaves thick, leathery, 3—7 in. long. 
4. S. eleagnifolius, Hook. f. Also au ornamental shrub-tree. Leaves 
elliptico-oblong ; flowers in racemes j 
5. S. sciadophilus, Raoul. A diaba shrub of rambling habit. 
Genus III. OASSINIA. 
1. C. fulvida, Hook. f. (C. leptophylla, Fl. N. Z. pr. p.). Uplands 
about base of Saddlehill; Chain Hill ranges; Lookout Point near 
Dunedin; Kaikorai valley and slopes of Kaikorai Hill; October, in 
flower, W. L. L. Usually forming “scrub;” frequently intermixed 
with the dwarf scrub forms of the Leptosperma, and probably confounded 
therewith by the settlers under their designations “ Manuka” or “ Tea- 
tree." 
The plant was ciel by Dr. Hooker in my herbarium C. lepto- 
phylla, but in his ‘ Handbook’ (p. 145) he evidently refers it to C. 
Julvida. I have no authentic specimens of the former; but the de- 
scriptions of the two species in the Handb. Fl. N. Z. lead me to refer 
both to one type. I suspect they grow intermixed and exhibit pas- 
sage-forms. I doubt whether mere glutinosity and the fulvous colour 
of the tomentum of the under side of the leaf are sufficient characters 
for separation as species. 
Again, the only good difference between fulvida and Vauvilliersii 
seems to me to be the constantly narrower leaf in the former. There 
is much less difference between these species than between varieties of 
the species of several other common Otago plants [e. g. Rubus aus- 
tralis]. C. fulvida seems to connect leptophylla with Vauvilliersii. 
Probably all the N. Z. Cassinie at present known will at no distant 
date be united into one or at most two £ypes. What appears to be a 
dwarf, procumbent form of fulvida has proved hardy in cultivation about 
Edinburgh. At Trinity it has stood against northern and western 
walls for two winters (1865-7). Some exposed shoots only were in- 
jured by the frost of January, 1867 (Gorrie). In this cultivated form, 
there is no tomentum on leaf or branches ; nor is there any glutinosity. 
Both leaf and branches are quite glabrous. But the under side of the 
leaf, in the young wholly, and in the old in patches, is stained a gam- 
