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scarious bracteole near its top; peduncle stout, pubescent, 6-20 lines long, 
pedicels slender, pubescent, 1-9 lines long, always opposite on rhachis, 
bracteolate, each with one or two small searious obtuse bracteoles and several 
very minute acute ones at base, and often with a pair of large leafy broadly 
ovate punctate bracts pilose and ciliate immediately below the base of the 
icels. 
Hab.— Forests at the head of the River Manawatu, where it climbs lofty 
irees; 1876—79. 
This species, which has been long known to me in its non-flowering 
state, will rank near to M. hypericifolia, A. Cunn., which in some respects it 
resembles; differing, however, in its more upright manner of growth, not 
being so divaricate; in its leaves being petiolate, broader, pubescent, and 
ciliate, and not so acute; in the colour of its flowers ; in its stamens being 
always very diffuse—not erect; in its style being much longer than its 
stamens ; in its longer and more dilated calyx tube which is also persis- 
tent; and in its leafy panicles, _ 
A good characteristic drawing of M. hypericifolia is given in the “ Flora 
Nova Zelandia ” (such as I have seen that handsome plant in the Northern 
woods), its flowers are wholly “scarlet” and very striking; but in this 
species its living flowers mostly appear pure white in its forests, owing to 
the early falling-off of its very small fugacious petals and its white spreading 
stamens. | 
OLEARIA COLORATA. 
A large shrub 8-12 feet high, of erect sub-pyramidal growth; bark thin, 
pale ; branchlets striated. 
Leaves broadly lanceolate, 8-54 inches long, 1-2 inches broad, mucro- 
nate, grossly and irregularly toothed at ends of lateral veins, teeth long 
subulate pointed, sub-membranaceous, rather dry, alternate, spreading, 
colour light-green, thickly covered above when young with long strigose 
loose woolly hairs,—hairs white, hoary, translucent, irregular in size and 
shape, branched, linear-lanceolate, broadest in middle, and tapering 
gradually to both ends,—and leaves densely covered below with closely- 
pressed white-brown cottony tomentum, which on the mid-rib and principal 
lateral veins is of a very much darker colour ; lateral veins alternate at 
right-angles to mid-rib, conniving and coalescing within the margin ; whole 
leaf closely filled with minute reticulated compound anastomosing veins ; 
petioles 6-9 lines long, canaliculated, rather slender. Flowers axillary and 
sub-terminal in diffuse branching heads of loose corymbose panicles ; heads 
numerous, small, crowded, 5-7 lines diameter, flowers of ray 8-14, white, 
patent, slightly recurved; involucre sub-campanulate, its scales in about 
iree rows, lanceolate acute and densely woolly and tipped with black, each 
