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Olearia capillcms, Buchanan', n. s. 



A small slender-branclied slirub. Bx-anches, panicles, and petioles covered 

 with closely appressed buff tomentum. Leaves |-1 in. long, membranous 

 ovate, obtuse or acuminate, nearly entire, covered below with silvery white 

 tomentum, young leaves silky above. Heads few, in lax open corymbs. 

 Florets 8-12. Pedicels long, very narrow, hair-like. Panicles of 3-5 heads, 

 sometimes 5 in. long. Achene with a few scattered forked hairs. 



Closely related to 0. nitida, Hook. f. 



Hab. — Nelson Mountains, altitude 4000 feet. 



Collected by Henry H. Travers. 



Melico2ye Mantellii, Buchanan, n. s. 



A glabrous small tree, 12-15 ft. high, branches slender, dark brown. 

 Leaves dark green, opposite, 3-foliolate, the side folia sometimes dropping off 

 leaflets 1-1 1- in. long, oblong or obovate, rounded at point, crenulate or entire? 

 flat, often overlapping on their inner sides. Petioles shorter than the leaves, 

 nari'owly winged with a groove on the upper surface. Flowers small, white 

 or pale greenish yellow, in small axillary cymes, which are often reduced to 

 three flowers. Petals linear oblong, reflexed when in full flower. Ovary 

 hirsute. Carpels scar'cely coriaceous, few veined, pellucid dotted, punctate. 

 Flowers and fruit otherwise the same as Ilelicojye siinplex, to which. Dr. Hooker 

 says, it is closely allied. 



Hab. — Common in the neighbourhood of Wellington, associated with 

 Melicope ternata and Melicoj^e simplex. From the first of these it is easily 

 distinguished by the darker green foliage, smaller flat leaves, hirsute cai-pels, 

 and smaller fruit ; and from the latter by its larger ternate leaves, flowers, and 

 fruit. 



Collected in Wellington and Auckland by J. Buchanan. 



Coprosma serrulata, Hook. n. s. 



A small upright unbranched shrub, 10-18 in. high. Leaves large, 

 coriaceous, 1-1 1 in. long, broadly obovate, round at tip, sei-rulate, tapering 

 into a very short stout petiole. Specimens in the Museum Herbarium not in 

 flower. Fruit apparently sessile, hidden amongst the leaves. 



Hab. — Sub-alpine altitudes of Otago and ISTelson, where it is usually found 

 growing among grass. Lower pai-t of the stem blanched white. 



Dr. Hooker, in a letter to Dr. Hectoi', remarks, — " This plant is a 

 botanical curiosity, as being the only species in this large genus with serrated 

 leaves." 



Collected in Otago by J. Buchanan, 18G5, and by Dr. Hector in Nelson, 

 1869. 



