Olearia.] xxxix. COMPOSITAE. 269 



lower ovate, short. Florets 8—12 ; rays 3—5, very narrow. Achenes ribbed, 



pilose or pubescent. — 0. dentata, Hook, f., Handbk. 126 (not of Moench.). 



Eurybia dentata, a, Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 118. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : from the East Cape and Urewera Country to Poveaux Strait ; 

 chiefly in mountain districts. Prom about 2,000£t. to nearly 4,000£t. Jan. 



The branches of the corymb frequently develop depauperated leaves at the base, and the entire 

 plant emits a musky fragrance. 



14. O. ilicifolia, Hook. /"., Handbk. 126. A shrub or small tree. Branch- 

 lets grooved, pubescent or nearly glabrous. Leaves rigid, glaucous when fresh, 

 linear-obloug-lanceolate or linear-ovate-lanceolate, 3in.— 4in. long, Jin.— fin. 

 broad, truncate or rarely narrowed at the base, acute or acuminate, margins 

 with spinous teeth, waved, naked below, or sparsely clothed with thin appressed 

 tomentum ; veins at right angles to the midrib. Corymbs usually larger than 

 those of the preceding. Branches with one or two depauperated leaves at the 

 base. Heads rather smaller ; involucral bracts lax, spreading, villous, ciliate at 

 the tips. Rays 5—7. Disk-florets 5-6 ; mouth tubular, campanulate, as long 

 as the tube. Style appendages subulate. Achenes ribbed, pubescent or pilose. 

 Pappus equal. — Eurybia dentata, p, Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 118. O. multibracteo- 

 lata, Col. in Trans. N.Z.I, xvii. (1885) 242. 



Var. mollis. Branchlets, petioles, and panicles white with fine pubescence. Leaves white 

 beneath with laxly-appressed tomentum, the spinous teeth softer and smaller ; veins prominent 

 beneath. Panicles very slender, exceeding the leaves. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : from the Bast Cape and Urewera Country to Poveaux Strait. 

 STEWART Island. Var. mollis: Nelson, Ball! Westland and Broken River, Cockayne! Sea- 

 level to fully 3,500ft. Jan. 



Specimens of this plant assume a yellowish hue when drying. Although very different from 

 the preceding in general appearance, the difierences are exhibited by the vegetative organs alone ; 

 the reproductive organs show no really distinctive characters, and specimens with intermediate 

 foliage are occasionally met with. This and the preceding species are valued by the Maoris on 

 account of their strong musky fragrance. Captain Gilbert Mair informed me that the Urewera 

 Natives when visiting the sea carried large bundles of this plant as tribute to the coastal Natives for 

 permission to pass through their land. 



15. O. Cunninghamii, Hook. /., Handbk. 126. A much-branched shrub 

 or small tree, 6ft.— 25ft. high ; trunk sometimes 1ft. in diameter. Branchlets 

 finely grooved, and with the petioles, panicles, and involucres more or less clothed 

 with white or brown tomentum. Leaves 2in.— 5in. long or more, fin.— 2in. 

 broad, oblong ovate-oblong linear-oblong or broadly elliptical, acute or obtuse, 

 narrowed towards the base, margins irregularly cut into coarse or acute teeth, 

 white beneath with appressed soft tomentum ; petioles slender or robust. 

 Panicles 3in.— 7in. long ; branches spreading. Heads very numerous, iin. in 

 diameter, shortly pedicellate, broadly turbinate or campanulate ; involucral 

 bracts short, ovate, pilose. Florets 16—24 ; rays short. Disk-florets half-fewer 

 than the rays; mouth short, campanulate; segments recurved. Achene gla- 

 brous. — T. Kirk, Forest Fl. N.Z. t. cxiv. Eurybia Cunninghamii, Hook, f., 

 Fl. N.Z. i. 117, t. 30. Brachyglottis Rani, A. Cunn., Precurs. n. 465. Solidago 

 canescens, Banks and Sol. MSS. 



Var. colorata. Leaves broadly lanceolate. Involucral bracts almost glabrous, rather smaller 

 than in the type and with fewer flowers. 0. colorata. Col. in Trans. N.Z.I, xii. (1879) 362. 



