872 Transactions, — Botany. 



Composite. 

 Olearia traillii, n. s. 



A shrub or small tree 5-12 feet high or more ; young shoots very 

 stout, tomentose. Leaves crowded near the tips of the branches, narrow 

 obovate-lanceolate, or lanceolate, 4"-G" long, l"-l£" broad, narrowed into 

 a short broad petiole, acute, coriaceous, closely serrate, clothed with ap- 

 pressed white tomentum beneath. Panicles terminal, 4"- 9" long, rhachis 

 clothed with leafy, tomentose, deciduous bracts ; heads 6-8 pedicellate, 

 1"-1J" diameter, involucral scales linear, acute, tomentose ; ray florets 

 female, white, obtuse ; disc florets perfect, tubular, limb companulate, 

 segments reflexed, achenes silky, pappus pale, 1-seriate. 



Hob. In places near the sea, Stewart Island; also on Puyseygur Point, 

 South Island. 



A noble species, one of the most striking plants in the New Zealand 

 Flora. The panicles are terminal when developed, but at length are over- 

 topped by the young shoots, so that they appear to be given off from the base 

 of the new growth. Pedicels l"-4" long ; disc florets purple, tube silky, 

 achene faintly grooved. I have great pleasure in dedicating this fine plant 

 to my old and valued friend, Mr. C. Traill, who has done so much towards 

 extending our knowledge of the natural history and botany of Stewart Island. 



Our plant is in some respects intermediate between 0. angustifolia, 

 Hook, f., on one side, and 0. colensoi and 0. lyallii on the other. 0. angus- 

 tifolia has smaller leaves, and the flower heads are solitary, carried on 

 stout peduncles clothed with imbricating, persistent, foliaceous bracts. 0. 

 colensoi has broader shorter leaves, with the principal nerves diverging at a 

 wider angle, and the flower heads are usually destitute of radiating florets. 

 0. lyallii has broader more obtuse crenulate leaves, with widely diverging 

 veins ; and flower heads similar to those of 0. colensoi. 

 Brachycome thornsonii, n. s. 

 Plate XXVII. 



A coarse, pubescent, glandular herb, 4"-12" high or more : stems stout, 

 branched, erect or spreading, leafy. Leaves 1"-1£" long, oblong-spathulate, 

 narrowed into broad petioles, lobulate or dentate, lobes or teeth obtuse. 

 Flower heads J" diameter, solitary, on terminal peduncles 3"-6" long or 

 more, naked or with a solitary bract. Involucral scales ovate with purple 

 margins ; receptacle convex : ray florets numerous, female, white, obtuse, 

 spreading : disc florets perfect, tubular. Achenes clavate, with a slightly 

 thickened margin, excessively glandular, pappus minute, bristly, more con- 

 spicuous in the achenes of the disc than in those of the ray. 



3. minima. 



Flower heads smaller, ray florets wanting. 



