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and sharply serrate, or bi-serrate—the serratures having small teeth in the 
sinuses, margined, bases dimidiate and sub-truncate, glabrous and shining 
on upper surface, clothed below with fine appressed golden silky hairs, 
midrib stout, keeled below, costal veins forming obtuse angles with midrib, 
greatly and finely reticulated on the upper surface, almost tessellated with 
minute squarish dots that are sometimes crescent-shaped; petioles 4 
inch long, stout, deeply channelled, dark brown, largely decurrent slightly 
winged or ridged extending to next leaf below. Flowers whitish, 
in small rounded terminal corymbose-panicles, arising from axils of 
leaves; panicles long slender, 1-2 inches long, leafy; sub-panieles with 
2-4 flowers; flowers rather distant, but together form a close compact 
corymbose head; peduncles slender, each with a small leaf at its base; 
pedicels about 8 lines long, slender; peduncles, pedicels, and involucres 
thickly covered with viscid glandular pubescence, odoriferous. Head of 
flowers small, about 2 lines long, 2-8 lines diameter, sub-cylindrical or in- 
fundibuliform, few-flowered, soon expanding ; involucre with 1-2, or more, 
leafy bracteoles at its base ; involucral scales in two rows, brown with a 
dark centre, outer shorter and ovate-acuminate, inner long linear obtuse, 
fimbriate at tips with brown curly tomentum.  Florets of the ray white, 
7-9, largely revolute, nearly twice as long as the involucre,—of the disk 
5-6, reddish, pubescent without; pappus short, rather shorter than florets, 
not thickened at tips, of a light-brownish colour (ochroleucus); achenes 
small, sub-linear-obovoid, somewhat flattened, ribbed and very hairy ; 
receptacle very small, somewhat irregular and ridgy. 
Forests about Woodville, River Manawatu, North Island; 
1882-84. Flowering February and March: Mr. S. Hutching. 
Obs. A species closely allied to O. dentata and ilicifolia, with which 
I was at first inclined to place it; but a closer examination of better and 
flowering specimens has yielded important characters possessed by neither 
of those species. It has a very strong and not unpleasant smell, particu- 
larly the clammy glandular pubescence of its heads of flowers. Mr. Hutch- 
ing informed me that, during several years residence there, he had only 
noticed this one plant, which he had early removed into his garden. I ` 
think it will make a neat garden shrub. & 
2. Olearia populifolia, sp. nov. 
Branchlets slender, bark brown, striate, thickly hairy with brown and 
grey hairs. Leaves alternate, rather distant, 2-3 inches long, 14-24 inches 
broad, membranaceous, broadly ovate, acute, acuminate, sometimes sub- 
orbieular and dimidiate, sub-truncate at base, sinuate, toothed, teeth few 
distant and (apex) knobbed, glabrous above, clothed below with densely 
appressed short pale greenish-white wool of a satiny appearance, midrib 
