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the racemes, and that the same tree may exhibit racemes both lon 
shorter than the leaves. 
PROPERTIES AND USEs. 
The wood is firm, hard, and compact, with a satiny lustre usually wit 
small silver grain, and often streaked or clouded: it is of a light-browt 
becoming much darker towards the heart. It is suitable for many kinds 
| ornamental work. 
Olearia Colensoi is of high value as an ornamental shrub: the beta is 
of a deep glossy green above, contrasting with the white under-surface, r 
this species very attractive. 
DIsTRIBUTION OF THE GENUS, 
See under Olearia Traversit, p. 47, ante. 
DistTRIBUTION OF THE SPECIES. 
Olearia Colensoi is endemic in New Zealand, and attains its northern limit 
on Mount Hikurangi near the East Cape, and extends southwards alon, 
crests of the Ruahine and Tararua Mountains. Itis plentiful immediately 
the gorge of the Pohangina, Ruahine; but, speaking generally, it is local it 
North Island, and does not descend below 3,o00ft. 
In the South Island it is found on the summit of Mount Stokes, but no 
other locality is known to me in the Marlborough District, and it appears to be 
very local in the Nelson and Canterbury Districts, although it occurs freely 
Westland. It is plentiful in Otago, and forms almost iapeadteetne scrub. 
mountain-slopes of the West Coast. It is abundant from sea-level to the | 
peaks on Stewart Island, and attains its southern limit on the Snares. 
Its altitudinal range is from sea-level to upwards of 5,000ft. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Olearia Colensoi, Hook. f., ‘‘ Flora Nove-Zelandiz,” 1., 
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A much-branched shrub or, rarely, a small tree soft. high, with trunk 
diameter. Branches stout. eaves alternate, shortly petioled, under-s 
white or brown with appressed tomentum, coriaceous, rigid, ovate-acum nit 
. broadly oblong or narrow-obovate, acute margins cently or closely ser 
doubly serrate, or crenate. Flower-heads in terminal bracteate racemes | a 
tips of the batnelies shorter or longer than the leaves. Rhachis, bracts 
peduncles white, with appressed aie Heads 3in. to 1in, broad, dest 
rays; involucral scales in one or two series, tomentose at the tips. 
very numerous, all perfect or with a few female florets in the nee 
Corolla tubular, campanulate, very silky. Achene silky; pappus-hairs b 
in two or three series, 
| EXPLANATION OF PrarE Cli, 
Olearia Colensoi, Hook. f, Flowering specimen, natural size. 
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