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each branch bearing 4—5 alternate equidistant denticulations, each with a 
dry scarious ciliated bract. Flowers large, 8-4 lines long, purple with 
darker veins; standard pointleted ; wings half the length of the standard : 
style bearded at tip ; peduncle slender, 9-12 lines long, bibracteate, 1- (rarely 
2-) flowered; bracts ciliated: pedicel 2 lines long, bracteolate at base ; 
calyx large, broadly campanulate, more than 1 line wide, ciliate and hairy 
at margin, with 2 broad obtuse ciliated bracteoles adpressed at base; 
teeth very long : pod oblong-elliptic, 4-5 lines long (exclusive of beak), 13-2 
lines broad, turgid, corrugated on one suture (mostly the lower) with 8—9 
thick closely formed wrinkles; beak straight, 14 lines long: seeds rotund, 
5 in a pod. 
Hab. Dry stony plains, Renwicktown, near Blenheim, South Island; 
Mr. F. Reader. 
This species, in its dwarf size and general appearance, resembles 
C. nana, but it differs widely from that species in its flower and pod; it is 
also not so robusta plant. In its peculiarly thick and wrinkled pod (whence 
its specific name) it differs from all the species of Carmichelia known to 
me. Some of its short branches bear a flower from each notch or denti- 
culation. 
Orper XXXIX. COMPOSITA. 
Genus 1. Olearia, Mænch. 
Olearia marginata, sp. nov. 
A robust shrub of low diffuse growth; branches, leaves, petioles, 
peduncles and heads of flowers thickly covered with tawny-yellowish 
"wool: branchlets very stout, straight, smooth, and bare of leaves for 5—7 
inches ; leaves oblong, sub-obovate (sometimes roundish and narrow oblong), 
24-44 inches long, 11-2 inches broad, very stout, entire, very obtuse and 
emarginate, tapering towards base, sub-verticillate, 4-9 crowded together at 
ends of branchlets far apart, sometimes (but rarely) a single pair opposite ; 
margined all round above the upper surface for 4 line wide with thick wool : 
midrib thick and flat towards base, and densely woolly for about 1 inch 
from petiole ; veined ; veins prominent, opposite and sub-opposite, diverging 
and parallel, apparent on both sides; veinlets anastomosing ; the upper 
surface of old leaves glabrous, glossy, pale yellowish-green ; petioles very 
stout, 2-13 inch long, channelled above, much dilated at base and sub- 
clasping ; young leaves densely covered with coarse wool, at first their upper 
surface is ash-coloured, but with tawny-yellow under surface and margins : 
peduncle very stout, axillary and sub-terminal, 24 inches long, 8 lines broad, 
of a uniform thickness throughout, compressed, channelled, soft flexible not 
woody, drooping, with 3-7 leafy half-clasping sessile and decurrent bracts 
below the head; head (alabastrus globular) 1-1} inch broad, densely 
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