Olearia. | COMPOSITAE. 929 
glabrous or pubescent when young; bark dark red-brown. Leaves opposite 
or in opposite fascicles, ¢-}1n. long, linear-obovate or linear-spathulate, 
obtuse, narrowed into a short petiole or sessile, coriaceous, glabrous or silky 
above, clothed with white appressed tomentum beneath. Heads solitary 
or fascicled, on short arrested opposite branchlets, shortly pedunculate or 
almost sessile. Involucre broadly turbinate; bracts in about 3 series, 
linear-oblong, tomentose or villous or almost glabrous. Florets 5-12; 
ray-florets 3-6, short, slender; disc-florets often with villous tips to the _ Fas$ 
corolla-lobes. | Achenes small, linear, glabrous or slightly pubescent. —*%* <- ery 
T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 275; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 294. 
O. quinquefida Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii (1896) 596. O.,ageregata 
Col. lc. 597. O. parvifolia Col. lc. 598. Eurybia virgata Hook. f. FI. 
Now. Zel. i (1853) 169-/7?- 6. hrerHas 
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. *) Var. ramuliflora 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 276.-—Leaves in opposite fascicles of 
2-6, rather larger, 4-$in. long, flat. Heads more numerous, in fascicles of 2-6; 
peduncles slender, often in. long or more, silky. Involucres tomentose or villous. 
Florets 7-12.—O. ramuliflora Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii (1890) 467. 
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NortH AND SoutH Isuanps, Stewart Isnanp: From the Thames Valley and 
Rotorua southwards, not uncommon. Sea-level to 3500 ft. December—January. 
A variable plant. Var. ramuliflora approaches O. odorata, but differs in the corolla 
of the disc-florets not being viscid and glandular. _ orf 7s 
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40. O. Pe ee m Rep. Bot. Surv. Stewart Id. (1909) 44.— ' 
An erect shrub 3-4 ft. high; branches slender, stiff, divaricating; bark 
pale, smooth or slightly ridged ; ultimate twigs slightly pubescent. Under- 
surface of leaves, pedicels, and involucral bracts more or less densely covered 
with short rusty hairs. Leaves dark-green, obovate, cuneate at the base 
and narrowed into a short petiole, inserted 2-3 together on short lateral 
branchlets. Flower-heads jin. long, cylindrical or nearly. so, solitary or 
2-4 on short lateral branchlets; pedicels slender, 4in. long, spreading, 
Involucral bracts short, purplish-green, ovate or oblong, obtuse, pilose 
with rusty hairs. Ray-florets 4; disc-florets 3. Achene faintly pilose. 
Stewart Istanp: Slopes of Table Hill, in sheltered subalpine meadows, Cockayne / 
February. | 
Dr. Cockayne remarks that this is distinguished from ©. odorata by the few florets 
and rusty tomentum ; and from all the forms of 0. virgata by the stiffer branches, more 
divaricating habit, rusty tomentum, few florets, and pale bark. I have seen only a single 
specimen, and the above description is mainly drawn up from Cockayne’s. 
( Karke ) 
41. O. lineata,Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xhii (1911) 173.—Allied 
to O. virgata, but easily separated by the much more slender and often 
pendulous branches, which are grooved and angled, and often silky-pubescent. 
Leaves in distant fascicles which are often 1-l}in. apart, 4-2in. long, 
excessively narrow-linear, glabrate or silky above, clothed with white 
tomentum beneath; margins much revolute. Heads in few-flowered 
fascicles at the base of the leaves; peduncles short, slender. Involucre 
broadly campanulate ; bracts villous or tomentose. Ray-florets 8-14; 
disc-florets 6-12. Achene glabrous. —O. virgata var. lineata T. Kirk 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 276; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 294. 
SoutH Istanp: Not uncommon from the south of Westland through the interior 
of Otago. Srawart Isuanp: Only seen in the Rakiahua Valley, Cockayne. January. 
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