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in one row, hairs thickened at the tips. Achene ribbed, compressed, 
pubescent. | 
Collected by Mr. Mitchell, surveyor, October, 1872, on the Tararua 
Mountains, Wellington. 
This plant is allied in" flower and fruit to Olearia lacunosa, differing 
entirely, however, in the flat, thin, broad leaves, without lacuna, smaller 
sparse-flowered, axillary panicles, and absence of reddish tomentum. 
Another shrub was also collected in the same locality, but without flowers, 
having leaves 6-8 inches long and only £ inch broad; deeply pitted at the 
prominent right-angled veinlets, which, if not a young plant of Olearia 
lacunosa, may prove to be another new species of Olearia. : 
Veronica arborea, n.s. 
A small tree 10-25 feet high, trunk 3 fect diameter. Leaves erect or 
reflected, 1-13 inches long, linear lanceolate, acute, inch broad, arranged in 
fascicles at the ends of the ultimate twigs. Racemes seldom longer than the 
leaves, close, small flowered, pubescent, pedicels short, sepals ovate, obtuse, 
ciliate, corolla 1 inch diameter. Capsule + inch long, twice as long as the 
calyx, swollen. This relic of the ancient bush may still be found in the 
neighbourhood of Wellington, in the rough bush country near Makara and 
Terawiti. Its form, when young, is peculiarly striking, being then perfectly 
‘dome-shaped, and elevated on a long, narrow stem, 10-12 feet high. 
This is probably the plant alluded to in the Handbook as a small-leaved 
form of Veronica parviflora ;* the smallest-leaved forms of the latter, however, 
can always be distinguished, and are never found except as straggling shrubs, 
a few feet high in open country. The racemes, also, are generally twice as 
long as the leaves. 
Arundo fulvida, n. s. Ñ : _ 
Plant forming tussocks of close-growing leaves and culms. Leaves 
coriaceous, 5—6 feet long, narrow, with long, attenuate curving points, entire, 
and smooth, without cutting edges, upper surface covered more or less with 
long, silky hairs, Culms few, 4—6 feet long, with erect, broad, compacted, 
pale fulvous panicles, 12-18 inches long. Spikelets 1-2, flowered, closely 
arranged on capillary pedicels, empty glumes 1 inch long, nearly equal; 
flowering glumes two-thirds as long, not bifid at the points, but terminated by 
a slightly twisted not included awn. : 
The Arundo conspicua, of the New Zealand Flora and Handbook, has 
been at various times differently named by different botanists, and Baron von 
umm à ) many persons who cultivate the 
species in their gardens, and who repudiate its being V. parviflora. 
