128 xxxix. composite. [Olearia. 
Middle Island: Akaroa , Raoul; Nelson, Bidmll ; Southern Alps, Uaast ; Otago, lake 
district, Hector and Buchanan. 
17. O. albida, Hook.f. — Eurybia, FI. N. Z. i. 118. A small tree, very 
like 0. Forsteri in habit and foliage, but the leaves are not evidently reticulate 
on either surface, the under surface is rather softer and very white, the panicles 
larger, more effuse. Heads quite different, pedicelled, \ in. long, subcylindric ; 
involucral scales imbricate, short, obtuse, pubescent ; florets 2 or 3, one often 
ligulate ; pappus white, unequal. Achene pubescent. 
Northern Island, Colenso ; Auckland, Sinclair. 
. 18. O. virgata, Hook.f. — Eurybia, FI. N. Z. i. 119. Tin erect, twiggy 
shrub, 3-8 ft. high. Branches opposite, angled or grooved, glabrous or pu- 
bescent. Leaves f in. long, linear-oblong obovate or spathulate, obtuse, 
rarely quite linear, with white or fulvous tomentum beneath, veinless, margins 
flat or recurved. Heads solitary or fascicled, on short or long slender pedi- 
cels, rarely sessile, broadly campanulate, \ in. diam. ; involucral scales woolly, 
few, short ; ray florets few ; pappus white or reddish. Achene pubescent. 
Var. a. Leaves 1—1 in., narrow linear-obovate, flat. 
Var. /3. Leaves 1 in., linear, margins recurved. 
Var. 7 . Leaves 1-1 5 in., excessively narrow linear, margins recurved. 
Northern Island, var. a, boggy places, Wairarapa, Colenso. Middle Island, var. a 
and / 8 , Wairau Pass, by watercourses, Bidwill; Rangitata river, Sinclair ; Lake Tikapo and 
Wainaka, Haast ; Otago, Lindsay. Var. 7 , Otago, Lindsay; lake district, Hector and 
Buchanan. Very variable in size, breadth, and colour of foliage. 
19. O. Hectori, Hook. /., n. sp. Habit of 0. virgata , but leaves 1-2 
in. long, obovate, on slender petioles, membranous, covered below with pale- 
grey silvery tomentum, the veins distinct. 
Middle Island : Otago, lake district, Hector and Buchanan, “a beautiful shrubby tree.” 
Possibly an extreme form of 0 . virgata, but a most distinct-looking plant. 
20. O. Solandri, Hook.f. — Eurybia, FI. N. Z. i. 119. An erect shrub, 
5 ft. high. Branches stout, upper opposite, angled, often viscid. Leaves in 
opposite pairs or fascicles, i in. long, uniform, narrow linear or linear-obo- 
vate, obtuse, margins recurved, covered until yellow tomentum below. Heads 
solitary, sessile, \ in. long ; involucre turbinate, scales numerous, short, im- 
bricated, obtuse, fulvous ; florets 8-10, ray short ; pappus red, equal. Achene 
pubescent. 
Northern Island : sandy shores of the cast coast, Banks and Solauder, Cunningham , 
etc. Habit of Cassinia fulvida. 
2. PLEUEOPHYLLUM, Hook. f. 
Tall, succulent, robust, leafy, silky or woolly herbs. Leaves radical and 
cauline, with numerous stout parallel ribs. — Heads racemed. Involucre he- 
mispherical, scales in 2 or 3 series, herbaceous. Receptacle flat, alveolate, 
toothed. Florets very numerous, of the ray in 1-3 series, ligulate, female ; 
of the disk tubular, 4- or 5 -toothed, hermaphrodite. Pappus of 2 or 3 series, 
rigid, scabrid, unequal. Anthers shortly tailed. Achene angled, densely 
setose. 
The only species known are confined to the islets south of New Zealand, and are noble 
