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flowers, those however of E. oppositifolia being as yet unknown. 

 In the latter character E. Traversii responds to some extent to the 

 species collected into the section Brachyglossa by CandoUe and still 

 more intimately to E. tubuliflora (Sond. & Muell. in Lumsea, xxv. 

 455), in which the minute female corolla is also decidedly shorter 

 than the style. The latter plant, from the vicinity of St. Vincent's 

 Gulf, is however in other respects widely different. 



With E. argophylla the Chatham-plant has beyond its habitual 

 grandeur many characters in common ; but except other notes the 

 alternate toothed leaves clothed beneath with a different indument, 

 the more elongated differently branched panicles, the conspicuous 

 development of ligules of the female flowers distinguish at once E. 

 argophylla. Perhaps a riearer approach is afforded by E. Beckleri, 

 an as yet undescribed species, discovered by Dr. Beckler on the 

 Clarence-River, similar in position, size and form, of leaves to E. 

 argophylla, distinguished however by their more velvety than silky 

 indument and their toothless margin ; of this the flowers and fruits 

 are as yet unknown, but the remnants of involucres indicate- seemingly 

 sufficiently its generic position. 



Possibly from all congeners E. Traversii recedes by its but very 

 slightly divided stigma of the female 'flowers. Still in other genera 

 of Compositse this character has proved so little fixed, that only 

 sectional value is attached to it on this occasion. 



Living plants, caused some years ago to be sent from the Chatham- 

 Islands by the Honorable Dr. Featherstone, Government Superin- 

 tendent of the Province of Wellington, N. Z., to the Botanic Garden 

 of Melbourne, have borne as yet no flowers. 



Mr. WUl. Seed, Landing Surveyor of Wellington, refers in a 

 printed report on the capabilities and productions of the Chatham- 

 Islands, dated 21st October 1861, also to the Ake-Ake as amongst 

 the principal woods of this island-group. 



EURYBIA SEMIDENTATA. 



Olearia semidentata, Deoaisne, Plancli. Voy. Yenus accord, to J. Hook. Mor. 



Not. Zeel. i. 114. 

 Leaves alternate, lanceolate, fiat, above the middle distantly 

 serrulate, beneath thvnly white velvet-downy, tapering into a sessile 

 base ; peduncles araneous-woolly, crowded towards the summit of 

 the branchlets, often considerably longer than the flower-heads, beset 

 with several small entire lanceolate leaves, terminated by a single 

 capitulum of copious fiawers ; involucre consisting of numerous 



