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346, close-set, erect or spreading, ¼–⅓ in. long or more, linear-obovate or linear-oblong, obtuse, narrowed into a short broad petiole or sessile, coriaceous, glabrous and usually glutinous above, fulvous or white and strongly costate beneath; margins recurved. Heads very numerous, in terminal rounded corymbs, shortly pedicelled, turbinate, ⅕–¼ in. long; involucral bracts in several series; the outer shorter, ovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, tomentose or glabrate, often reddish towards the tips; inner linear-oblong, with short white obtuse radiating tips. Scales among the florets numerous. Florets 8–15. Pappus-hairs thickened at the tips.—''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 145; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 315. Ozothamnus Vauvilliersii, ''Homb. et Jacq. Bot. Voy. Astrol. et Zel. 38, t. 5; Hook. f. Fl. Antarct.'' i. 29. Olearia xanthophylla, ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xx. (1888) 193.

4. C. amœna, ''Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxix. (1897) 391.—A small round-topped densely branched shrub 1–2 ft. high; branches stout, furrowed, the younger ones clothed with greyishwhite tomentum. Leaves close-set, spreading or suberect, ¼–⅔ in. long, narrow linear-obovate or linear-spathulate, obtuse, narrowed into a short petiole, coriaceous, glabrous above, clothed with dense white tomentum beneath; margins recurved. Heads numerous, in rounded terminal corymbs, narrow turbinate, shortly pedicelled, ⅕–¼ in. long; involucral bracts in several series; the outer shorter, ovate-oblong, obtuse, tomentose; the inner linear-oblong, with short white radiating tips. Florets few, 4–6; scales of the receptacle usually absent or rarely 1 or 2 present. Achene silky, with a thickened areole at the base. Pappus-hairs thickened at the tips.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 315.

5. C. fulvida, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 145.—A slender erect much-branched shrub 2–6 ft. high; branches glutinous, clothed with fulvous tomentum. Leaves close-set, spreading or suberect, ⅙–⅓ in.