Okaria.] XXXIX. COMPOSITAE. 271 



Panicles large, much-branched. Heads mimerous ; involucres turbinate ; flowers 



not seen. Pappus reddish. The branches of the panicle and the involucres are 



clothed with brownish tomentum. 



NORTH Island : Tararua Range and mountaina towards Whanganui. 



Not having seen specimens of this remarkable plant, I have copied Buchanan's description. 

 He remarks that the thin brownish papery bark peels ofl in large sheets. 



19. O. Allomii, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z.I, iii. (1870) 179. A low shrub, 

 1ft.— 3ft. high, sparingly branched from the base. Branches stout. Leaves 

 excessively thick and coriaceous, rather close-set, lin.— 2in. long, fin.— 1 Jin. 

 broad, broadly oblong-ovate or elliptical-ovate, rounded at the apex, truncate or 

 slightly unequal at the base, shining above, silvery-white with smooth appressed 

 tomentum beneath. Peduncles few, stout, exceeding the leaves. Corymbs 

 spreading. Heads few ; pedicels short, downy ; involucres Jin. long or more, 

 broadly campanulate ; bracts laxly imbricate, pubesceht or villous, broadly 

 lanceolate. Ray-florets about 8, spreading. Dislc-florets 6—8, the mouth 

 narrow-campanulate, about as long as the tube, into which it is abruptly con- 

 tracted ; segments 5, spreading. Achenes deeply grooved, hispid. Pappus 

 unequal. 



GREAT BARRIER Island: not unfrequent from sea-level to 2,500ft. Hutton and Kirk. 

 Nov., Dec. 



A beautiful and distinct species. When fully expanded the rays are fin. in diameter. 



20. O. rigida, Col. in Trans. N.Z.I, xx. [1887) 194. A diffuse shrub, 

 2ft. high. Branches as thick as a lead-pencil, rigid, clothed with appressed 

 greyish tomentum. Leaves numerous, opposite, very thick and rigid, elliptic, 

 usually about lin. long, but sometimes reduced to Jin. or Jin. on the same 

 branchlet, tips recurved, glabrous or rugulose above, pilose beneath, entire ; 

 petioles Jin.— Jin. long, clasping. Heads in terminal subrotund corymbs, lin.— 

 1 Jin. in diameter, turbinate ; pedicels very short, stout ; involucral bracts in 2 

 series, oblong, obtuse, grooved, villous. Florets about 20. Achene glabrous, 

 grooved. Pappus very short, unequal. 



NORTH Island : high plains, Waimarino, west side of Tongariro, Hill. 



Not having seen specimens, I have given, although in a condensed form, the original descrip- 

 tion. The inflorescence approaches Cassinia very closely, but the florets are not described. 



21. O. moschata, Hook.f., Handbk. 127. A much-branched shrub or 

 small tree, 5ft.— 14ift. high, emitting a musky fragrance. Branches short and 

 stout ; branchlets, petioles, leaves below, and peduncles clothed with soft 

 appressed whitish tomentum. Leaves Jin.— fin. long, obovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 coriaceous, narrowed into a very short petiole, minutely reticulated above and 

 sometimes pubescent near the tip ; veins hidden below. Corymbs 2—4 times as 

 long as the leaves. Peduncles very slender. Heads few, on long slender 

 pedicels, campanulate or broadly turbinate ; involucral bracts few, lax, villous, 

 the upper linear. Florets 12—20 ; rays 7—12, long, Disk-florets with a cam^ 



