930 COMPOSITAE. | Olearva. 
42. O. Solandri Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl, (1864) 128.—An erect much- 
branched shrub 5-15 ft. high; branches stout, spreading, angled, often 
viscid, usually more or less clothed with pale-yellowish pubescence, Leaves 
of young plants opposite, 4-4 in. long, linear-obovate or -spathulate, narrowed 
into short petioles, membranous, flat, white beneath; of mature plants 
in opposite fascicles, $-4in. long, narrow-linear or linear-obovate, obtuse, 
narrowed into very short petioles, coriaceous, glabrous above, beneath 
clothed with pale-yellowish tomentum ; margins recurved. Heads $-4in. 
long, solitary, sessile, terminating short lateral branchlets. Involucre 
narrow-turbinate ; scales in 3-4 series, numerous, imbricate, obtuse or 
subacute, bright fulvous, pubescent or viscid. Florets 8-20; ray-florets 
5-14, ray short. Achenes grooved, pubescent.—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 
276; Cheesem. Man. N.Z, Fl. (1906) 294. O. fasciculifolia Col. in Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xxv (1893) 330. O.consimilis Col. l.c. xxviii (1896) 596. Eurybia 
Solandri Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 119. 
Nortu IsrAnp: From the North Cape southwards, plentiful near the coast. SouTH 
TsLAND : Queen Charlotte and Pelorus Sounds, Banks and Solander!/ J. Rutland! J. H. 
Macmahon ! D’Urville Island, Bryant! Awatere Valley, H. J. Matthews ! Sea-level 
to 150° ft, February—May. 
Although most plentiful near the sea, it is occasionally seen in several localities 
in the interior of the North Island. 
avo bode 6. PLEUROPHYLLUM Hook. ¢. /£ “"* 
Tall handsome silky robust perennial herbs. Leaves mostly radical, 
large, entire, many-nerved. Heads large, racemed at the top of the stem. 
Involucre broadly campanulate or hemispherical; bracts in 2-3 series, 
herbaceous. Receptacle flat, pitted. Ray-florets female, ligulate, in 
1-3 series; ligule long or short. Disc-florets many, regular, tubular, 
campanulate at the mouth, 4-5-toothed. Anthers shortly and obtusely 
auricled at the base. Style-branches of the disc-florets flattened, with 
lanceolate tips. Achenes compressed, striated, densely setose. Pappus- 
hairs in 2-35 series, copious, rigid, scabrid, unequal. 
The genus is limited to the 3 following species, and is confined to the outlying 
islands to the south of New Zealand. It is very closely allied to Celmisia, from which 
it is separated rather by the very distinct and peculiar habit than by any structural 
characters of importance. 
Ray-florets with a conspicuous ray. Leaves large, 6-18 in., sessile 
by a broad base. . 5 ae by mm a 
Ray-florets short, inconspicuous. Leaves large, 1-4 ft., petiolate, 
green above a ne - * sh 
Ray-florets short, inconspicuous. Leaves smaller, 6-12 in., 
petiolate, white and silvery on both surfaces 
P. speciosum. 
2. P. criniferum. 
2. P. Hookeri. 
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l. P. speciosum Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 1 (1844) 31, tt. 22, 23.—Leaves 
chiefly radical, spreading horizontally all round the base of the stem, 6-18 in. 
long, 4-10 in. broad, broadly ovate or obovate, sessile by a broad _ base, 
thick and coriaceous, quite entire, furnished with 15-20 stout longitudinal 
parallel ribs, villous and tomentose beneath, above slightly setose, with the 
bristles more or less mixed with moniliform hairs. Cauline leaves few, 
oblong-lanceolate. Flowering stems several, 14-3 ft. high, ending in a 
raceme of 8-20 heads; bracts numerous, linear. Heads 1}-24in. diam. ; 
disc-florets dark-purple ; ray-florets with a conspicuous ligule, light-purple 
