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long, narrow- and linear-lanceolate. Female flowers circumferential ; 

 their corolla only about V" long, forming a very slender cylinder, 

 which terminates in an entire or slightly slit apex of much less 

 length than the tube ; style less than half exserted ; stigmata about 

 i"' long. Bisexual flowers with a corolla of nearly 2"' length, which 

 is campanulate and five-toothed at the summit ; style short-exserted ; 

 stigma terminated into two roundish lobes of only about i"' length. 

 Anthers nearly f" long. Achenia ^-1'" long, prominently lined. 

 Longest bristles of the pappus 1-1^'" long ; all fulvid. 



On this, the noblest plant brought by Mr. Travers from the 

 Chatham-group, I gratefully bestow the name of the young pro- 

 mising naturalist and of his enlightened father, though offering 

 thereby but a faint acknowledgment of their generous response to a 

 proposition of adding by a phytological exploration of the Chatham- 

 Islands a limited but interesting contribution to the physical geo- 

 graphy of the globe. 



Eurybia Traversii counts amongst the very few species of the 

 vast order, of Compositse, attaining the height of stately trees. In 

 Continental Australia, and Tasmania we know only Eurybia argo- " 

 phylla to attain the same and occasionally even greater dimensions ; 

 indeed the latter may be the most gigantic species of this order any- 

 where in existence, Kke amongst Labiatse our Prostanthera lasi- 

 anthos, which perhaps represents in that order the greatest if not 

 only timber tree. Eurybia argophylla attains occasionally the height 

 of 60', and in this regard amongst coordinal plants only Synchoden- 

 dron ramiflorum of Madagascar and Melanodendron integrifolium 

 of St. Helena seem to rival with it. Eurybia lirata and Bedfordia 

 salicina may be noted 30' high, but their stems are never so robust 

 as those of the forenamed plants ; and none of the tall Eurybia and 

 Senecio species of New Zealand seem even to equal these latter in 

 height, unless Senecio Forsteri. 



Eurybia Traversii is to be drawn to the series of species with 

 always or frequently opposite leaves, apparently not represented in 

 New Zealand, but of which from Continental Australia the following 

 are known : E. viscosa (Cassini Diet, xxxvii. 487), E. chrysophylla 

 (Cand. Prodr. v. 266), E. megalophylla (F. M. in Papers of the Roy. 

 Soc. of Tasm. iii. 228), E. alpicola (F. M. 1. c. 229), E. rosmarinifolia 

 (Cand. Prodr. v. 268), E. oppositifolia (F. M. Fragm. Phyt. Austr. ii. 

 88). From all these the Chatham-plant is well distinct by its tall 

 arboreous growth, by the form of its leaves, by its inflorescence, and 

 particularly by the singular reduction of the size of the female 



