Olearia.] xxxix. compositae. 273 



6—10, small ; rays 5—7. Disk-florets with a campanulate mouth equalling the 

 tube; segments recurved. Achene faintly ribbed, pubescent or silky. Pappus 

 1-seriate. 



SOUTH Island: Nelson: Mount Arthur Plateau, Oheeseman 1 Canaan, Dalit 4,000ft. 

 Dec, Jan. 



The small tassel-like corymbs are quite unlike those of any other species. 



25. O. nummularifolia, Hook. /., Handbk. 127. An erect shrub, 2ft.- 

 10ft. high. Branches stout, rigid, often viscid. Leaves Jin.— ^in. long, close- 

 set, erect or spreading, coriaceous, suborbicular or orbicular-oblong ; margins 

 more or less recurved, shining above, white with appressed tomentum beneath, 

 sessile or abruptly contracted into an extremely short broad petiole. Heads 

 Jin.— Jin. long, solitary, axillary, turbinate, on very slender peduncles Jin.— 2in. 

 long, often with a pair of bractlets about the middle ; involucral bracts few, 

 imbricate, villous, pubescent or glabrate, upper linear. Florets 6—10 ; rays 

 broad. Disk-florets with a tubular mouth. Achenes pubescent or silky. — 

 O. Hillii, Col. in Trans. N.Z.I, xx. (1887) 194. 



Var. cymblfolia, Hook, f.. I.e. 732. Leaves Jin. long, spreading or deflexed, obtuse, convex 

 above, smooth and nerveless ; margins strongly revolute all round, oymbiform, with the concavity 

 below. Heads few or 0. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : in mountain districts from the East Cape to Poveaux Strait. 

 Rare and local in Otago. Sea-level to 4,500ft. Var. cymbifoUa, SOUTH Island. 



This species varies greatly in the degree to which the margins of the leaves are revolute, and 

 in the length of the petiole. Var. cymbifolia appears to be a depauperated condition, largely caused 

 by the ravages of insects ; it produces but few flower-heads, and the upper leaves are greatly reduced 

 in size. 



26. O. angulata, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z.I, xiii. (1881) 384. A much- 

 branched shrub, 8ft.— 12ft. high. Branches short, spreading, grooved, almost 

 hoary. Leaves IJin.— 2|in. long, lin. broad, shortly petioled, oblong or broadly 

 elliptic, rounded at the apex, truncate at the base, undulate at the margins, 

 coriaceous, clothed with appressed white tomentum beneath ; principal nerves 

 prominent, forming a right angle with the midrib. Panicles exceeding the 

 leaves, spreading. Heads about Jin. long ; involucral bracts laxly imbricating, 

 the lower farinose, the upper linear, obtuse, ciliate or pubescent. Florets 3—5. 

 Achenes strigose. Pappus unequal. 



NORTH Island : North Cape district and Spirits Bay, T. K. 



Rather closely related to 0. albida, but a more spreading plant, with shorter and more 

 coriaceous waved leaves and smaller heads. The leaves closely approximate those of 0. Forsteri. 

 In the Handbook it appears to be confused with 0. albida. 



27. O. albida, Hook.f., Handbk. 128. A shrub or small tree, 10ft.-16ft. 

 high. Branches erect; branchlets furrowed, downy pubescent or hoary. Leaves 

 3in.— 4in. long, lin.— IJin. broad, petioled, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, nar- 

 rowed below, not reticulated above, white with soft appressed tomentum beneath. 

 Panicles 2in.— 4in. long. Heads numerous, on short pedicels, subcylindrical, 

 Jin. long; involucral bracts imbricating, often slightly farinose, the lower ovate, 

 short, pubescent, the upper longer, linear-oblong, slightly ciliate. Florets 3—5 ; 

 rays 1—2. Disk-florets with a very short campanulate mouth ; segments 5, 



