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referred to any congeners of New Zealand ; but as both kinds at .the 

 time of Mr. Traverses stay on the islands were devoid of flowers and 

 fruit, the characteristic of these plants can only be given on a future 

 occasion. 



COMPOSITiE. 



EURYBIA TrAVERSII. 



(Sect. Cardiostigma.) 



Arboreous ; leaves short-petioled, large, flat, opposite, broad- or 

 lanceolate-ovate, perfectly teethless, beneath as well as the branchlets 

 and peduncles pale-silky, above smooth and shining ; the primary- 

 veins forming large meshes ; the veinlets but slightly conspicuous ; 

 panicles cymose, axillary and termimal, subsessile, with short 

 opposite branches and branchlets, condensed into a leafy rich inflo- 

 rescence ; capitula small, without rays, 5-16-flowered ; scales of 

 the involucre 6-13, acute, outside as well as the peduncles and 

 bracts silky ; corollse appressed-downy ; those of the female flowers 

 -half as long as the male ones, considerably shorter than their style 

 and their pappus, attenuated into a minute ligular apex ; coroUse of 

 the bisexual flowers little longer than the pappus ; stamens enclosed ; 

 stigma of the bisexual flowers with eodremely short lobes; pappus 

 twice or less than twice as long as the almost silky achenia ; its outer 

 bristles half or nearly as long as the inner ones, all slightly scabrous. 



Generally distributed through the woods of Chatham- and Pitt- 

 Island, stUl most abundant near the sea-border. 



A very beautiful not viscid tree, attaining a height of 30-35', 

 called inappropriately by the colonists Bastard Sandalwood-tree and 

 passing under the native name " Ake-Ake." The stem often 4' in 

 girth, but almost always hollow, a character it has in common with 

 Eurybia argophylla. Branches and branchlets opposite ; the latter 

 somewhat quadrangular, and covered with a very close indument. 

 Petioles 2-5"' long. Leaves coriaceous, 1^2|" long, 1-1^" broad, 

 rather distantly and spreadingly nerved, tapering at the base, mi- 

 nutely apiculate at the generally somewhat acute apex. Panicles 

 towards the summit of the branches rather copiously axillary, by 

 the fall of the leaves construing a terminal inflorescence. Ultimate 

 peduncles often shorter than the capitula and occasionally suppressed. 

 Bracts at the base of the general peduncle imbricate ; those at the 

 base of the succeeding and other peduncles solitary, opposite, 1-3'" 

 long, narrow-lanceolate, all persistent. Capitula from semiovate to 

 hemispherical. Scales of the involucre in very few rows, 1-1^'"^ 



