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Olearia.] petioles stout or slender, ½–1½ in. long. Panicles very large, wide-spreading, much-branched. Heads numerous, ¼–⅓ 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. xchenes quite glabrous or rarely with a few scattered hairs.—Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 114; Students' Fl. 269. Eurybia Cunninghamii, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' i. 117, t. 30. Brachyglottis Rani, ''A. Cunn. Precur.'' n. 465.

17. 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 clothed with dirty-white or buff tomentum. Leaves alternate, 1½–4 in. long, ½–1 in. broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 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 numerous, small, $1⁄6$–$1⁄5$ in. long; involucre narrow-turbinate; outer scales small, ovate, tomentose; inner linear-oblong, obtuse, villous at the tips. Florets about 12; ray-florets 5–7. Pappus-hairs slender, in one series. Achenes grooved, hispid.— Kirk, Students' Fl. 270.

18. 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 with pale-yellowish or fulvous tomentum. Leaves alternate, ¾–1½ in. long, ½–¾ in. broad, Imear-oblong or oblong to ovate, obtuse at both ends, shortly petiolate, 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;