Olearia.] XXXIX. COMPOSITAE. 265 



ceousj spreading, 2m.— 4in. long, ^in.— fin. hroadj white with appressed tomen- 



tum beneath, narrow -obovate-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowed into the 



short winged petiole ; teeth close, callous at the tips. Peduncles 6—15, stout, 



lin.— Sin. long, sheathed with short imbricating linear obtuse cottony bracts. 



Heads large ; involucral leaves in 2-3 series, obtuse, tomentose. Rays white. 



Disk yellow. Achenes silky. — Handbk. 124. Arnica operina, G. Forst., Prod. 



n. 299. 



Var. robusta. Leaves shorter, excessively coriaceous, more deeply toothed. Peduncles 

 shorter. Heads smaller. 



SOUTH Island : Martin's Bay to Preservation Inlet. 



Porster's drav? ing of this fine plant is remarkably poor. 



l. O. angustifolia, Hook.f., Fl. N.Z. i. 115. A shrub or small tree, 

 6ft.— 20ft. high, with robust tomentose branches. Leaves 3in.— 5in. long, Jin.— 

 §in. broad, sessile, glossy above, white with appressed tomentum beneath, 

 excessively rigid and coriaceous, narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed below, 

 crenate or doubly crenate or serrate, the teeth usually rounded or callous ; 

 midrib and principal nerves obvious below. Heads IJin.— 2in. in diameter, on 

 stout peduncles, shorter or longer than the leaves, clothed with short laxly- 

 imbricating leafy bracts, white beneath ; involucral bracts in 2 series, the outer 

 densely tomentose. Ray-florets white, ligulate, each with a linear scale at its 

 base. Disk-florets violet. Achenes grooved, silky. Pappus short, unequal. — 

 Handbk. 124 ; T. Kirk, Forest Fl. N.Z. t. 138. 



SOUTH Island : Puysegur Point (rare), T. K. Near the Bluff Hill, Aston ! STEWART 

 Island : in exposed places south of Paterson's Inlet, T. K. Sea-level to 100ft. Tete-aweka. Nov., 

 Dec. 



A noble plant, distinguished from all other species of this section by the foliaceous bracts. 

 The peduncles are invariably terminal, but in this, as in other species, often appear lateral from the 

 development of one or more strong usurping shoots after flowering. The heads are delioiously 

 fragrant. 



5. O. Traillii, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z.I, xvi. (1883) 372. A shrub or 

 small tree, 15ft. high or more, with robust tomentose branchlets. Leaves 

 crowded near the tips of the branchlets, 4in.— 6in. long, lin.— 1 Jin. broad, lanceo- 

 late or narrow-obovate-lanceolate, narrowed into a broad winged petiole, glossy, 

 very coriaceous, white beneath ; margins doubly crenate, with narrow rounded 

 callous points. Heads in erect terminal 3— 8-flowered racemes with few decidu- 

 ous leafy bracts. Rhachis, peduncles, and undersurface of bracts white with 

 appressed tomentum. Peduncles 2in.— 3in. long. Involucral leaves in 3 series, 

 scarious, acute, the outer sparingly tomentose at the tips. Ray-florets shortly 

 ligulate, white. Disk violet. Pappus reddish-brown, 1-seriate. Achenes 

 grooved, silky. 



STEWART Island : rare and local, T. K. Nov., Dec. 



A noble species, which fitly commemorates a keen and enthusiastic naturalist, the late Charles 

 Traill. 



6. O. Colensoi, Hook.f., Fl. N.Z. i. 115, t. 29. A bushy shrub or tree, 

 4ft. -10ft. high, with trunk 2ft. in diameter. Branches stout. Leaves very 



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