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each branch bearing 4-5 alternate equidistant denticulations, each with a 

 dry scarious ciliated bract. Flowers large, 3-4 lines long, purple with 

 darker veins ; standard pointleted ; wings half the length of the standard ; 

 style bearded at tip ; peduncle slender, 9-12 lines long, bibracteate, 1- (rarely 

 2-) flowered; bracts ciliated: pedicel 2 lines long, bracteolate at base; 

 calyx large, broadly carnpanulate, more than 1 line wide, ciliate and hairy 

 at margin, with 2 broad obtuse ciliated bracteoles adpressed at base ; 

 teeth very long : £>orf oblong-elliptic, 4-5 lines long (exclusive of beak), 1|— 2 

 lines broad, turgid, corrugated on one suture (mostly the lower) -with 8-9 

 thick closely formed wrinkles ; beak straight, 1-| lines long : seeds rotund, 

 5 in a pod. 



Hob. Dry stony plains, Renwicktown, near Blenheim, South Island ; 

 Mr. F. Reader. 



This species, in its dwarf size and general appearance, resembles 

 C. nana, but it differs widely from that species in its flower and pod ; it is 

 also not so robust a plant. In its peculiarly thick and wrinkled pod (whence 

 its specific name) it differs from all the species of Carmichcelia known to 

 me. Some of its short branches bear a flower from each notch or denti- 

 culation. 



Order XXXIX. COMPOSITE. 

 Genus 1. Olearia, Mcench. 

 Olearia marginata, sp. nov. 



A robust shrub of low diffuse growth ; branches, leaves, petioles, 

 peduncles and heads of flowers thickly covered with tawny-yellowish 

 wool : branchlets very stout, straight, smooth, and bare of leaves for 5-7 

 inches ; leaves oblong, sub-obovate (sometimes roundish and narrow oblong), 

 2^-4^- inches long, 1^-2 inches broad, very stout, entire, very obtuse and 

 emarginate, tapering towards base, sub-verticillate, 4-9 crowded together at 

 ends of branchlets far apart, sometimes (but rarely) a single pair opposite ; 

 margined all round above the upper surface for \ line wide with thick wool ; 

 midrib thick and flat towards base, and densely woolly for about 1 inch 

 from petiole ; veined ; veins prominent, opposite and sub-opposite, diverging 

 and parallel, apparent on both sides ; veinlets anastomosing ; the upper 

 surface of old leaves glabrous, glossy, pale yellowish-green ; petioles very 

 stout, f-lj inch long, channelled above, much dilated at base and sub- 

 clasping ; young leaves densely covered with coarse wool, at first their upper 

 surface is ash-coloured, but with tawny-yellow under surface and margins : 

 peduncle very stout, axillary and sub-terminal, 2-J inches long, 3 lines broad, 

 of a uniform thickness throughout, compressed, channelled, soft flexible not 

 woody, drooping, with 3-7 leafy half-clasping sessile and decurrent bracts 

 below the head ; head {alabastrus globular) l-l£ inch broad, densely 

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