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XXXIX. COMPOSITE. 
[ Ca&sinia . 
oblong or obovate, obtuse, margins recurved, costate below, opaque or shining 
and generally glutinous above. Heads numerous, in terminal globose corymbs, 
-J- in. long, turbinate, on tomentose, very short pedicels ; involucral scales few, 
scarious, woolly; scales amongst the florets numerous. — Ozothamnus Vauvil- 
liersii, Homb. and Jacq. Yoy. au Pol. Sud, Bot. t. 5. 
Northern and Middle Islands : common on the mountains, Bidwill, etc. Scarcely 
distinguishable from a true Ozothamnus of Tasmania (0. cuneifolius , A. C.). 
12. OZOTHAMNUS, Br. 
Characters of Cassinia, but without any scales amongst the florets ; inner 
scales of the involucre without white radiating tips in the New Zealand spe- 
cies, and hairs of pappus not always thickened at the tip. 
A large Australian and Tasmanian genus, very variable in habit. 
Heads corymbose. Slender shrub. Leaves orbicular, petiolate, lax . 1. 0. glomeratus. 
Heads solitary, terminal, sessile. 
Leaves sub-4-farious, keeled and polished at back 2 . 0. microphyllus. 
Leaves sub-6-farious, linear, hoary or silky 3.0. depressus. 
Leaves iinhricated in very many series, polished and convex on back 4. 0. coralloides. 
Leaves imbricated in 6-8 series, polished and keeled on back . . 5. 0. Selayo. 
1. O. glomeratus. Hook. f. FI. N. Z. i. 133. A spreading bush; 
branches slender, flexuous, tomentose at the tips. Leaves scattered, i-1 in. 
broad, orbicular or broadly ovate or spathulate, quite entire, often apiculate, 
margins recurved, white and cottony beneath, suddenly contracted into slender 
petioles. Heads in small, lateral, stibglobose, sessile or peduncled corymbs, 
small, T \y in. long, pedicelled or sessile ; involucral scales scarious, woolly at the 
base, a few outer florets slender, female. Pappus-hairs thickened at the tip. 
Achene puberulous. — Sivammerdamia glomerata, Raoul, Choix, 20. t. 16. 
Northern and Middle Islands: dry hills from the Bay of Islands to Otago, Banks 
and So/ander, etc. 
2. O. microphyllus, Hoolc.f. FI. N. Z. i. 134. t. 35 A. A depressed 
woody shrub. Branches tomentose, ascending, crowded, densely covered 
with imbricating leaves, in. diam. Leaves minute, t V“tV in. long, closely 
imbricating, almost quadrifariously, oppressed to the stem, triangular, ovate, 
thick, obtuse, obtusely keeled, woolly next the stem, green and polished at 
the back, with sometimes an oblong spot below the tip. Heads solitary, 
terminal, sessile, turbinate, A— i in. long ; involucral scales scarious, glabrous 
or pubescent, inner somewhat dilated at the tip. Pappus not thickened at the 
tip. Achene pubescent. 
Middle Island : Wairau Pass, 4000 ft., Bidwill, Sinclair ,- Southern Alps, clefts of per- 
pendicular rocks, Sinclair and Haast. The Nelson specimens have more slender branches 
than the more southern. 
3. O. depressus, Hook.f. FI. N. Z. i. 134. A prostrate, silver-grey, 
woody shrub, sometimes 5 ft. high, with straggling, divaricating, rigid, 
slender branchlets, hoary or with appressed cottony down. Leaves minute, 
xt i n - l°ng, closely appressed to the branchlets and imbricating towards 
their tips, linear, obtuse, silky, woolly above. Heads i- J in. long, solitary, 
sessile on the tips of the branchlets ; involucral scales very narrow, acuminate, 
recurved, cottony at the base. Pappus very slender. Achene glabrous. 
