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292 29. O. Forsteri, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 127.—A much-branched shrub or small tree 8–20 ft. high; branchlets grooved and angular, tomentose. Leaves alternate, 1½–3 in. long, oblong or ovate-oblong or broadly ovate, obtuse, shortly petiolate, coriaceous, glabrous above, clothed with thin closely appressed vphite tomentum beneath; veins finely reticulate; margins usually strongly undulate. Corymbs branched, peduncles usually shorter than the leaves. Heads sessile and fascicled on the branches of the corymb, small, narrow, $1⁄6$–$1⁄5$ in. long. Involucre cylindric; scales few, imbricate, glabrous or nearly so; outer small, broadly ovate; inner much longer, linear-oblong, obtuse. Florets always solitary, tubular, hermaphrodite. Pappus-hairs numerous, in one series. Achenes rather broad, pubescent.—Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 137. O. uniflora. ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxii. (1888) 469. Eurybia Forsteri, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' i. 119. Shawia paniculata, ''Forst. Char. Gen. 95, t. 48; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 243; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 434; Raoul, Choix, 18, t. 13; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 217.

30. O. fragrantissima, ''Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxiii. (1891) 398.—An erect much-branched shrub 6–15 ft. high or more; bark dark red-brown or almost black; branches rigid, flexuous or zigzag, finely grooved. Leaves distant, alternate, ¾–l½ in. long, elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong or -ovate, acute, narrowed intoa rather slender petiole, membranous, glabrous above, clothed with rather lax silky tomentum beneath; margins flat, quite entire. Inflorescence of alternate sessile glomerules ½–¾ in. diam., each containing 8–12 nearly sessile heads $1⁄5$ in. long, each head with a woolly bract at its base. Involucral bracts in 2 or 3 series, oblong, obtuse, densely woolly. Florets 4–8, yellowish; ray-florets 2–5, short and broad. Achenes grooved, silky.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 274.