Oleat-ia.] LXV. COMPOSlt^. Sftt 



5. O. subspicata (flowers nearly in spikes),- Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 478. 

 Shrubby, with erect virgate branches, more or less woolly-tomentose. Leaves 

 erect, not clustered, linear, obtuse or nearly so, with revolute margins, rarely 

 exceeding ^in., glabrous above, woolly-tomentose underneath. Flower-heads 

 ovoid or almost cylindrical, shortly pedunculate or nearly sessile, crowded into 

 short terminal racemes or spikes. Involucre much imbricate, 3 to 4 lines long, 

 the bracts obtuse or nearly so. Eay-florets 3 to 6 ; the ligula much longer than 

 the style; disk-florets about as many, longer than the involucre. Style- 

 appendages lanceolate. Achenes silky-hairy. Pappus bristles tether' unequal, 

 but -rtrithout any distinct series of short ones. — Phiryhia mbspicata. Hook, in Mitch. 

 Trop. Austr. 293. 



Hab.: Maranoa and Belyando Rivers, Mitchell ; other southern localities. 



The species differs from 0. ramulosa chiefly in its longer leaves and larger flower-heads. 



. 6. O. ramosissima (very branchy), Benth. Fl. Austt: iii. 479. A shrub of 

 2 or 3ft., with numerous rather slender branches, scabrous-pubescent, mixed with 

 a little loose wool. Leaves minute, reflexed, clustered in the axils, lanceolate or 

 linear, entire, with revolute margins, all under 1 line long or rarely the larger 

 ones narrow and nearly 2 lines long, glabrous and smooth or scabrous abover,with 

 a thin loose wool underneath. Flower-heads solitary at the ends of the branch - 

 lets, forming an oblong or rarely corymbose leafy panicle. Involucre broadly 

 turbinate, about 3 lines long, the bracts often coloured and jagged at the edge. 

 Florets tinged with blue, those of the ray 12 to 15, more numerous in the 

 disk and longer than the involucre. Achenes more or less villous. Pappus 

 white, with a few short outer bristles. — Eunjbia ramosissima, DO. Prod. v. 270 ; 

 Aster cyanodiscus or Olearia cyanodiscalis, F. v. M. Fragm. v. 82. 

 Hab.: Stanthorpe, T. Kirkland. 



7. O. pimeleoides (like a Pimelea), Benth. FL Austr. iii. 479. A shrub of 

 4 or 5ft., more or less hoary or white with a close woolly tomentum, the branches 

 rigid and virgate or sometimes short and almost spinescent. Leaves mostly 

 oblong-cuneate and 3 to 4 lines long, but passing into obovate and much shorter, 

 or into longer and almost linear, obtuse, with recurved margins, glabrous or 

 hoary above, tomentose underneath. Flower-heads solitary, terminal. Involucre 

 broadly ovoid or almost hemispherical, the bracts much imbricate, almost acute. 

 Ray-flosets 10 to 15 or even more ; disk-florets numerous, longer than the invo- 

 lucre. Style-appendages short, obtuse. Achenes silky-villous. Pappus-bristles 

 unequal, but none very short. — Eurybia pimeleoides, DC. Prod. v. 268. 



Hab.: Southern localities. 



8. 6. magniflora (flowers large), F. v. M. Fragm. v. 80 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 iii. 480. A shrub of 3 or 4ft., with divaricate branches, the whole plant glabrous 

 and often glutinous. Leaves not numerous, narrow, cuneate, thick, obtuse and 

 often 3-toothed at the end, the larger ones above ^in. long, but mostly smaller. 

 Flower-heads large, solitary, terminal. Involucre broadly turbinate, fin. 

 diameter, the bracts numerous, much imbricate, the inner ones often coloured on 

 the margins. Eay-florets 15 to 20, long and narrow ; disk-florets numerous. 

 Style-lobes long, with short obtuse appendages. Achenes long, glabrous. Pappus 

 exceeding the involucre, a few of the outer bristles shorter than the others. — 

 Aster magnifloriis, F. v. M. I.e. 



Hab.: Recorded for Queensland by F. v. Mueller. 



9. O. elliptica (leaves elliptical), DC. Prod. v. 271 ; Benth. Fl. Anistr. 

 iii. 483. A tall shrub, glabrous and often glutinous, the foliage sprinkled with 

 minute glandular dots. Leaves elliptical, oblong or lanceolate, acute acuminate 

 or almost obtuse, entire or rarely sinuate-toothed, narrowed at the base, 1^ to Sin. 

 long. Flower-heads small, numerous, in a terminal corymbose leafless panicle. 



