288 OLEARIA ANGUSTIFOLIA. 
PROPERTIES AND USEs. 
The wood of Olearia angustifolia 1s of a whitish-brown colour, and of < 
lustre, with dark streaks and small silver grain. It is suitable for many ku 
ornamental work. If felled during the growing season the bark shrinks 
tudinally in a most remarkable manner, and the sapwood becomes discol« 
It affords good firewood, but I am assured that if water is thrown on the 
an explosion takes place, and the embers assume a remarkable slag-like ap 
ance, the cause of which is unknown. | 
This species is easily cultivated in cool soils, but suffers if exposed to 
winds. 
DISTRIBUTION OF THE SPECIES. 
Olearia angustifolia is one of the most local plants in the New Zealand flc ) 
being restricted to the southern portion of Stewart Island and some of t 
outlying islets. It attains its northern boundary on the southern side 
Paterson’s Inlet, and is only found on the verge of sea-cliffs, and in sg 
situations. It ascends from the sea-level to about rooft. i 
DESCRIPTION. 
Olearia angustifolia, Hook. f., ‘‘ Flora Novee-Zelandie,” 1., p. 115. 
A shrub or small round-headed tree, Gt. to 20ft. high, with stout branch A 
white with appressed tomentum. Leaves alternate, pe) 3in. to gin. lor 
excessively coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, acumunate, nite with appres 
tomentum beneath, crenate or doubly crenate, the teeth small, rounded, 
hard. Flower- heads with stout leafy ipeaquntles rather shorter than the lea 
and clustered at the tips of the branches; leaves on the peduncles ain 
long; heads din. to 2in. in diameter ; ieeokiein leaves in one series, rl 
linear, with scarious margins. Disc- Hoes all perfect, with tubular camp 
corollas; ray-florets Pansate, with ligulate corollas, each with a linear ae a 
base ; acvene silky, grooved ; pappus rediepeBrowi, short, unequal. i 
Expianation of Prater CXXXVIII. 
Olearia angustifolia, Hook. f. 1. Flowering specimen, natural size. 2 and 
3. Disc-floret, natural size and magnified. 4. Transverse section of the sa 
5. Stamen. Both magnified. 7 and 8. Ray-floret, natural size and magniied. 
g. Fruiting specimen, natural size. 10 and ii. Achene, natural size and 
magnified. ) ‘ : 
