eleatee) . COMPOSITAE. 921 
SO) Mew (A.Crwr~-) Drivrce 1716+ 6 38 
19. oP Cunninghamii Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 126.—A_ shrub 
or small tree 8-25 ft. high; branches, inflorescence, petioles, and leaves 
beneath clothed with soft white or butt tomentum. Leaves alternate, 
2-6 in. long, very variable in shape, broadly ovate or elliptical to oblong 
or linear-oblong, acute or rarely obtuse, rounded or narrowed at the base ; 
margins, irregularly coarsely toothed ; petioles stout or slender, $—-1} in. 
long. Panicles very large, wide - spreading, much branched. Heads 
numerous, 4-4 in. diam., campanulate; scales of the involucre in several 
series, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, tomentose or 
villous ‘or nearly glabrous. Florets 12-24; ray-florets the most numerous ; 
ligules short, broad. Pappus-hairs white or reddish, unequal. Achenes 
quite glabrous or rarely with a few scattered hairs—T. Kirk Forest Fl. 
(1889) t. 114; Students’ Fl. (1899) 269; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 286. 
Eurybia Cunninghamii Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 117, t. 30. Brachy- 
glottis Rani 4 Luan Percur. (1838) n. 465. 
Var. eolorata/7’. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 269.—Leaves narrower, oblong-lanceolate 
to lanceolate. Otherwise as in the type.—O. colorata Col. in Trans. N.Z, Inst. xii 
(1880) 362. 
NortH AnD Soutu Is~tanps: Abundant in woods from the North Cape to Marl- 
borough and Nelson. Sea-level to 2500 ft. Heketara. _)ctober-Novemiber. 
, Sec trem) - c-& 
A very variable plant. The leaves ‘are sometimes coarsely toothed ar and 46 Sther 
times almost entire; the involucral scales vary from linear-oblong and densely tomen- 
tose to linear and almost glabrous. Mr. Kirk describes the var. colorata as having 
the scales nearly glabrous, but they are densely tomentose in Mr. Colenso’s type 
specimens and in a others that I have seen. 
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X20. O. excorticata Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. vi (1874) 241.—A small 
much-branched shrub or small tree 12-15 ft. high, with a trunk 1 ft. in 
diam.;. bark loose, papery; branchlets grooved, and with the panicles, 
petioles, and leaves beneath ee with dirty-white or buff tomentum. 
Leaves alternate, 14-4 in. long, 4-1in. broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceo- 
late, acute or pees shortly petiolate, coriaceous, glabrous and finely 
reticulated above ; lateral veins spreading, but hardly at right angles ; 
margins flat, obscurely sinuate-dentate. Panicles longer than the leaves, 
branched, corymbose : pedicels slender, densely tomentose. Heads nume- 
rous, nals 4-4 in. long; involucre narrow-turbinate ; outer scales small, 
ovate, aiercies inner linear-oblong, obtuse, villous at the tips. Florets 
about 12 ; ray-florets 5-7. Pappus-hairs slender, in one series. Achenes 
grooved, hispid.—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 270; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. 
Fl. (1906) 287. 
. Norta [stanp: Tararua Mountains, Mitchell / Mount Holdsworth, 7. P. Arnold ! 
Mount Hector, B. C. Aston! Petrie! Soursn Istanp: Nelson—Mountains near Col- 
lingwood, Dall! Westland—Not uncommon on the western slopes of the Southern 
Alps. 3000-4500 ft. December—January. 
“21. O. suavis Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxiv (1892) 409.—A densely 
branched shrub or small tree 6-18 ft. high; branches stout; branchlets, 
panicles, and under-surface of leaves clothed el pale-yellowish or fulvous 
tomentum. Leaves alternate, #-1}1in. long, 4-?in. broad, linear-oblong or 
oblong to ovate, obtuse at both Rade shortly penialetes coriaceous or almost 
membranous, entire or obscurely sinuate, glabrous above; lateral veins 
conspicuous beneath, spreading almost at right angles. Panicles much 
longer than the leaves, slender, corymbose, much branched ; pedicels slender, 
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