296 OLEARIA CUNNINGHAMIL. 
DISTRIBUTION OF THE SPECIES. 
Olearia Cunningham occurs alike in dry broken places, in open situati 
and in woods. It is frequent from the North Cape to Cook Strait. 
South Island it is found in the Districts of Marlborough and Nelson, and. 
the authority of Mr. Buchanan, on the west coast of Orgs also, but ap 
be absent from Canterbury and Westland. It ascends noe sea a-level to up 
of 2,00oft. 
DESCRIPTION. 7 
Olearia Cunninghamii, Hook. f., ‘‘ Handbook of the New Zealand 
Flora,”’ p. 126. | 
Eurybia Cunninghamit, “ Flora Nova-Zelandia,” 1., p. 117, t. 30. 
A shrub or small tree, 6ft. to 25ft. high ; trunk sometimes ft. in diameter 
more. Branchlets, panicles, and involucres clothed with soft brown tome: 
branchlets finely grooved. Leaves alternate, petioled, 2in. to 5in. lo 
or broadly oblong or narrow-oblong or lanceolate, acute; margins with 
acute teeth; under-surface white. Panicles 3in. to 7in. long, with Sp tees 
branches, axillary. Heads very numerous, tin. in diameter, pedicelled ; invoh 
scales in several series, obtuse or subenoute Florets, cighteen to twenty-f 
ray-florets spreading, twice as numerous as the didtowereres ; disk- florets 
tubular mouth, campanulate, with recurved segments. Achene § 
pappus-hairs few, whitish or reddish-brown, slightly thickened at the tips 
__ExpranatTion or Pirate CXIV. 
Olearia Cunninghamii, Hook. f. Flowering specimen, natural size. 1. Lo 
tudinal section of involucre. 2. A ray-floret. 3. Perfect floret. 4. A flowei 
head. 5. Anachene. All magnified. 
