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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 £ 

 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-panicles 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 3 lines long, slender ; peduncles, pedicels, and involucres 

 thickly covered with viscid glandular pubescence, odoriferous. Head of 

 flowers small, about 2 lines long, 2-3 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. 



Hab. Forests about Woodville, Eiver Manawatu, North Island ; 

 1882-84. Flowering February and March : Mr. S. Hutching. 



Obs. A species closely allied to 0. 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, 1^-2J inches 

 broad, membranaceous, broadly ovate, acute, acuminate, sometimes sub- 

 orbicular 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 



