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Middle Island : near the glacier of Lake Okau, alt. 4-4500 ft., Haast. I received this 
plant first from the late Mr. Veiteli, of Exeter, who cultivated it from seeds brought from 
New Zealand, bearing the MS. name Eurybia parvifolia. 
13. O. moschata, IIoo/c. /., n. sp. A much-branched shrub, smell- 
ing strongly of musk. Branches, peduncles, and leaves below covered 
with densely appressed, white or yellowish tomentum. Leaves •§— f in. long, 
narrow obovate-oblong, obtuse, quite entire, flat, narrowed into a very short 
petiole, hardly reticulated above ; veins quite obsolete below. Corymbs 
axillary, long-peduncled. Heads few, long-pedicelled, campanulate, ^ in. 
diam. ; involucral scales in few series, outer short, obtuse, white, tomentose, 
inner brown ; florets 12-20 ; pappus whitish, unequal. Achene silky. 
Middle Island : Mount Cook, 2500-3500 ft., and banks of Haast and Hopkins rivers, 
Haast ; Otago, lake district, alt. 2000 ft., Hector and Buchanan. 
14. O. mmrnmlarifolia, Hook. f. — Eurybia, FI. IST. Z. i. 118. A 
rigid, erect shrub, 1-10 ft. high, more or less viscid. Branches stout, erect, 
often glutinous. Leaves close-set, erect spreading or reflexed, | in. long, 
orbicular oblong or obovate, obtuse, quite entire, margins recurved, very hard 
and coriaceous, reticulate and shining above, below white or yellow, covered 
with appressed down. Heads solitary, on peduncles longer or shorter than 
the leaves, £ in. long, ■§ broad ; involucre turbinate, scales appressed, im- 
bricate, broad, obtuse, nearly glabrous or the outer pubescent ; florets 8-10, 
rays rather broad ; pappus white, unequal. Achene pubescent. 
Alps of the Northern and Middle Islands, alt. 4000 ft: Tongariro, Bidwill ; Mount 
Hikurangi, Colenso ; Nelson, Bidwill ; Southern Alps, in various places, Sinclair, Haast, 
Travers ; Otago, lake district, Hector and Buchanan. Travers sends a variety from the 
Wairau gorge, alt. 4500 ft., with the margins of leaves so recurved that the latter are cymbi- 
forra, and the outer scales of the involucre are tomentose. 
15. O. Forsteri, Hook. f. — Eurybia, FI. N. Z. i. 119. A small tree, 
closely resembling O. furfuracea in habit and foliage. Leaves 2-3 in. long, 
oblong, obtuse, margins undulate, both surfaces finely reticulate, lower 
white with densely appressed down ; petioles 1 in. long. Corymbs shorter 
than the leaves, peduncled, spreading, many-headed. Heads fascicled and 
sessile on the branches of the panicle, 4- J- in. long ; involucre narrow, scales 
few, lax, coriaceous, shining, white, obtuse, nearly glabrous; florets 1 or 2, 
one often ligulate ; pappus white, unequal. Achene pubescent. — S/iawia 
paniculata, Forst. 
Northern and Middle Islands, Banks and Solander, etc. ; head of Ruamalianga and 
banks of the Pahawa river, Colenso ; Akaroa, Raoul. 
16. O. avicenxiiaefolia, Hoolc. f. — Eurybia , FI. N. Z. i. 120. A 
small tree. Branches hoary. Leaves l|-2£ in. long, elliptic- or lanceolate- 
oblong, narrowed at both ends, subacute, margins flat, reticulate on both 
surfaces, white or rufous with closely appressed tomentum below ; petioles 
in. long. Corymbs peduncled, densely very many-headed. Heads 
shortly pedicelled, 4 in. long, narrow ; involucre cylindric, scales few, imbri- 
cate, coriaceous, glabrous, ciliate, not shining; florets 3 or 4, one with a 
broad ray ; pappus white. Achene silky. — Shawia aviceunicrfulia , Baoul, 
t. 13. 
