274 XXXIX. COMPOSITAE. [Olearia. 



recurved. Style elongate ; style-arms very long. Achenes ribbed, downy 



or pubescent. Pappus with short hairs at . base. — Eurybia albida. Hook, f., 



Fl. N.Z. i. 118. 



NORTH Island : from the North Cape to the East Cape and the Mokau River, but remark- 

 ably local in many districts. April. 



Most nearly related to 0. avicenniaefolia, but the leaves are more narrowed upwards and the 

 heads are larger. 



28. O. avicenniaefolia, Hook, f., Handbk. 127. A shrub or small tree, 

 5ft.— 20ft. high or more. Branches grooved, hoary. Leaves l|in.— 4in. long, 

 fin.— l^in. broad, lanceolate-oblong or broadly lanceolate, narrowed at both 

 ends, subacute, flat, reticulated on both surfaces, white with appressed tomeutum 

 beneath ; petioles short, rather stout. Corymbs on long slender peduncles, 

 dense ; pedicels short, rarely 0. Heads small ; upper involucral bracts linear, 

 glabrous, entire, obtuse. Ray-florets 1, rarely 2 ; ray broad. Disk-florets 

 usually 2 ; mouth shortly funnel-shaped, abruptly narrowed into a tube ; 

 segments 5, broad, spreading. Achenes silky. Pappus 1-seriate. — T. Kirk, 

 Forest Fl. N.Z. t. 111. Eurybia avicenniaefolia. Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 120. 

 Shawia avicenniaefolia, Raoul, Enum. 45. 



SOUTH Island ; frequent from Nelson to the Bluff.; most abundant below 1,600ft., but 

 ascends to 3,000ft. STEWART Island. Akeake. Jan., Feb. 



29. O. fragrantissima, Petrie in Trans. N.Z.I, xxiii. (1890) 398. An 

 erect or much-branched deciduous (?) shrub, 6ft.— 15ft. high. Branchlets erect, 

 zig-zag but rigid, finely grooved. Bark black. Leaves distant, alternate 

 or fascicled, fin.— IJin. long, elliptical or elliptical-lanceolate, acute, narrowed 

 into a short petiole, glabi'ous above, silky beneath. Flower-heads fragrant, 

 forming a globose 10— 12-flowered capitulum, sessile in old axils from which the 

 leaves have fallen, pedicellate or sessile or subracemose, fascicled or solitary 

 with a woolly bract at the base of the lower flowers or fascicles. Involucral 

 bracts in 2—3 series, woolly, the upper linear-oblong. Florets 4-8 ; rays 2—5, 

 very short and broad, recurved at the tips. Disk-florets with a campanulate 

 mouth and long recurved segments ; both ligules and segments pubescent or 

 ciliate at the tips. Achene grooved, silky. Pappus-hairs equal. 



SOUTH Island: Canterbury: Lake Forsyth, T.K. Otago Heads, Buclianan! Dunedin, 

 Saddle Hill, Tairoa Heads, Gatlin's Eiver, Petrie I 



Originally discovered by Buchanan, but confused with 0. Hectori, the flowers of which were 

 at that time unknown. The only New Zealand spacies with globose fascicles of yellow flowers. 



30. O. Hectori, Hook. /., Handbk. 128. An erect much-branched deci- 

 duous shrub or small tree, 6ft.-14ft. high. Branchlets slender, grooved, terete 

 or angular at the tips, glabrous. Leaves in opposite fascicles, linear-obovate or 

 linear-spathulate, lin.-ljin. long, ^:in.-Jin. broad, membranous, white with 

 silvery tomentum beneath, glabrous above except when young ; petioles very 

 slender. Heads in opposite fascicles of 2-5. Peduncles silky, slender, ^in.-^in. 

 long ; involucre saucer-shaped ; bracts in 2 series, linear-oblong, lax, spreading, 



