Cassinia.] , xxxix. COMPOSITAE. 315 



glabrate or rarely pubescent. Florets 6-10. — DC, Prod. v'l. 155 ; Hook, f,, 



Fl. N.Z. i. 133; Handbk. 145. Caka leptophylla, G. Porst., Prod. n. 387. 



Calea axillaris, Banks and Sol. MSS. 



Var. spathulata. Leaves linear-spathulate, nearly flat, clothed below with yellowish tomen- 

 tum. Involucres more tubular. Florets 9-10.— C. spathulata, Col. in Trans. N.Z.I, xxii. 472. 



NOKTH and SOUTH Islands : from the East Cape to Marlborough and Nelson. Tauhinu. 

 Cottonwood. 



3. C. rubra, Buck, in Trans. N.Z.I, xix. (1886) 316. A slender shrub, 



3ft.— 4ft. bigh. Branches, pedicels, and leaves below clothed with appressed 



yellow or fulvous tomentum. Leayes oblong-spathulate, erect or spreading, 



Jin.— ygin. long, rounded at the tips, flat, or margins slightly recurved. Heads 



T^yin. long, very numerous, in terminal slender-branched corymbs ; pedicels 



short, slender ; involucres cylindric or narrow, turbinate ; involucral bracts red, 



glabrous, elliptic-oblong, narrow, the inner with very short white tips. Receptacle 



with numerous scales amongst the florets. 



NORTH Island : Wanganul River. Collector's name not stated, but I am indebted to Mr. 

 Buchanan for one of his specimens. 



A charming plant, resembling G. fulvida in aspect, but distinguished by the broad leaves, 

 smaller heads, and numerous scales among the florets. Prom all other New Zealand species it is 

 separated by the red involucral bracts, with extremely short white tips. 



4. C. Vauvilliersii, Hook. /., Fl. N.Z. i. 133. Erect, 2ft.-8ft. high, 



much branched. Branches fastigiate or spreading, stout, clothed with viscid 



fulvous or yellowish tomentum, grooved. Leaves spreading or erect, :^in.— Jin. 



long, linear-obovate or oblong-spathulate, coriaceous, obtuse, narrowed into a 



short broad petiole or sessile, glabrous and glutinous above, clothed below with 



fulvous tomentum ; margins flat or recurved. Heads numerous, in terminal 



globose corymbs; pedicels short; involucre ^in.— Jin. long, turbinate, scarious, 



woolly or glabrate ; outer involucral bracts ovate-lanceolate, subacute, the 



inner oblong, obtuse. Florets about 10 ; scales amongst the florets numerous. — 



Handbk. 146. Ozothamnus Vauvilliersii, Homb. and Jacq. in Voy. au Pole Sud, 



Bot. Dicot. t. 5; Hook, f., Fl. Antarc. 39. Olearia xanthophylla, Col. in Trans. 



N.Z.I. XX. (1887) 193? (from description only). 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : from Taupo to Foveaux Strait ; STEWART Island ; AUCK- 

 LAND Islands. 



Var. albida. Branchlets and leaves below clothed with whitish tomentum. Leaves linear- 

 spathulate, strongly oostate beneath. Kaikoura Mountains : not unfrequent, T. K, West Cape, 

 Buchanan ! 



A beautiful species, distinguished from all states of 0. fulvida by the broader leaves and 

 numerous scales among the florets. 



5. C. amoena, Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z.I, xxix. (1896) 391. Densely 

 branched, 1ft.— 3ft. high, the younger branches clothed with greyish tomentum. 

 Leaves close-set, spreading or ascending, narrow linear-obovate or linear- 

 spathuiate, obtuse, Jin.— fin. long, clothed with white tomentum beneath, 

 glabrous above ; margins recurved, narrowed into a very short petiole. Heads 

 numerous, in crowded terminal hemispherical corymbs ; pedicels short ; involucres 



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