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linear-lanceolate towards the summit ara/neous scales, of which the 

 outer ones are half or more than half as long as the inner ones; 

 corollse blue ; ligules of the female flowers 17-22, entire, at least 

 twice as long as the tube ; their style enclosed ; bisexual flowers 

 about as long as the involucre ; their corolla almost glabrous, of the 

 length of the pappiis ; their anthers enclosed ; their stigmata about 

 one-third the length of the style ; pappus little or hardly longer 

 than the slightly pubescent achenium ; its outer bristles variously 

 shorter than the inner ones. 



In damp open places of Chatham-Island. 



Probably only of shrubby growth. Leaves on the summit of the 

 branchlets, 1-2" long, above soon glabrescent and shining, 3-5-nervedy 

 thinly net-veined ; the midnerve more prominent, the lateral ones 

 faint. Peduncles 3" or less long ; their leaves measuring 3-6"'. 

 Scales of involucre 2-3^'" long, tigules 3-4'" long, oblong-lanceolate. 

 Corollse both of disk and ray (according to Mr. Travers) vividly 

 blue ; those of the disk above the middle bell-shaped, at the summit 

 five-toothed. Anthers short-caudate. Style of either kind of flower 

 enclosed. Stigmata exserted, hardly ^"' long, narrow semiterete- 

 linear. Achenia 1^'" long, streaked. Pappus pale, not thickened 

 towards the apex. 



Mr. Travers's collection contains an allied plant, in all probability 

 not claiming specific distinction. It differs in blunt-toothed larger 

 leaves, attenuated more distinctly into a broad petiole, covered 

 beneath as well as the peduncles with a very dense tomentum, 

 further in larger capitula of which the partial vestiment is much 

 thicker though also araneously coherent, in still more numerous and 

 larger flowers and in a more evidently downy achenium. 



At the edges of woods near the sea-shore not common. 



The capitula enclose often aboiit thirty ligules, which according 

 to Mr. Travers assume from a deep blue gradually a whitish hue, 

 and from 70-80 discal flowers, also blue but persistently so. 



This plant is evidently allied to Eurybia operina (Arnica operina, 

 Forst. Prodr. 299 ; Olearia operina, J. Hook. Fl. Nov. Zeel. i. 114), 

 which differs in larger more deeply crenate leaves, longer peduncles, 

 larger capitula, yellow discal flowers (according to Forster & Ach. 

 Eich. 1. c. 233). The absence of authentic specimina of the New 

 Zealand plant in the Melbourne collection prevents the writer to 

 carry the comparison further on this occasion. The leaves of the 

 larger variety of the Chatham-plant are not unlike those of Eurybia 

 Colensoi (Olearia Colensoi, J. Hook. Flor. Nov. Zeel. i. 116). 



