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290 longer, linear-oblong, almost glabrous or pubescent at the tips. Florets 4–8; ray-florets 2–4, short, broad. Achenes grooved, pubescent.—Students' Fl. 272. O. angustata, ''Armst. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xiii. (1881) 337.

24. O. (?) coriacea, Kirk, Students' Fl. 276.—A sparingly-branched rigid shrub 6–8 ft. high; branches erect or ascending, rather stout, pubescent. Leaves alternate, ½–⅔ in. long, ovate or orbicular-ovate, obtuse, shortly petiolate, excessively thick and coriaceous, glabrous above, white with appressed tomentum beneath; margins recurved. Flowers not seen, but the peduncles of the previous year's inflorescence are about twice as long as the leaves, and are apparently branched at the top.

25. O. nummularifolia, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 127.—A much and closely branched shrub 2–10 ft. high; branches stout, woody, scarred; younger ones often viscid, more or less clothed with whitish or yellowish stellate tomentum or almost glabrous. Leaves alternate, close-set, erect or spreading, $1⁄5$–$1⁄2$ in. long, almost orbicular to broadly oblong or obovate, rounded at the tip, very shortly petiolate, excessively thick and coriaceous, shining and reticulate above, clothed with appressed stellate tomentum beneath; margins recurved. Heads ⅓–½ m. long, solitary, on axillary peduncles longer or shorter than the leaves. Involucre narrow-turbiuate; scales in several series, closely imbricating, tomentose or pubescent or almost glabrous; outer short and broad; mner linear, obtuse. Florets 6–12; ray-florets 3–5, rather broad. Achenes pubescent.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 273. O. Hillii, ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xx. (1888) 194. Eurybia nummularifolia, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' i. 118.