PLANTS OF CHATHAM ISLAND. 



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Olearia Teaversii. 

 FIGURE 33. 



This forms a small tree 30 feet high, with a trunk 1 to 2 feet in 

 diameter. It is abundant in the woods on the island, and is easily 

 recognized by the opposite leaves, axillary panicles, and discoid heads. 

 The wood as timber is probably the best on the islands, and is used 

 largely for fencing, when it is fairly durable. The plant is not of 

 much horticultural interest, as its flowws are rather insignificant; but 

 economically I attach considerable importance to it as a shelter plant, 

 and it is most conspicuous on the island by the way it grows in very 

 exposed places. It is probably as hardy as Euonymus maritimus, and 

 is far more durable. 



Pseudopanax chatamicum. 

 FIGURE 34. 



This plant is fairly common, and found scattered about among 

 the forest. The mature tree is not unlike Pseudopanax eras si folium, 

 so common on the mainland of New Zealand, and known as the 

 "Lance wood." The plant, however, can be at once separated by 

 the absence of deflexed leaves in the young state, the larger and 

 broader leaves of the mature plant, and the large globose fruit. It 

 attains a height of 25 feet. 



