araneosis, floribus radii tubo elongato laxe piloso, ligula lata brevi trifida, acbeuio elongato profunde
costato.
Y'ar. a] tomento laxiore fnlvo, foliis majoribus, paniculis elongatis. T a b . XXIX.
Var. /S ; tomento appresso argenteo, panícula abbreviata.
H a b . Northern and Middle Islands. Yar. a. Mount Hikurangi and east coast, Colenso. Var. /S.
Dusky Bay, Lyall.
A stout, branching, large shrub, with thick branches and branchlets, more or less woolly and spreading leaves,
crowded towards the ends of tlie latter. Leaves very thick, rigid and coriaceous, 14-4 inches long, broadly obovate,
acute, tapered into a short stout petiole ; margin cut irregularly into short aud shai-p unequal teeth ; upper
surface smooth or rough, with reticulated sunk veins ; lower covered densely with wool, which is loose and yellow
in var. a, appressed and silvery in var. /S. Panicles erect, with five to seven pedunculate heads of flowers, and ovate
concave bracts, more or less silkj' and woolly all over. Heads of flowers |—1 inch across. Flotcers of the ray with
a short, broad, trifid ligula, and long hairy tube. Pappus dirty yellow-brown, 3-4 lines long. Achenia as long
as the pappus, ribbed, silky.—Plate XXIX. Fig. 1, receptacle ; 2, floret of ray ; 3, floret of disc :—all magnified.
5. Olearia Lyallii, Hook. fil. ; subarborea, ramis ramulisque validis crassis lignosis foliis subtus pani-
culisque lana molli alba appressa dense indutis, foliis amplis breve petiolatis eUiptico-ovatis obovatisve
acutis obtuse crenato-dentatis, paniculis polycephalis, capitulis pedunculatis breviter radiatis, bracteis sub-
foliaceis oblongis dorso pedunculis pedicellis involucrisque densissime lanatis, acheniis costatis dense sericeis,
pappi setis sordide fulvis, floribus radii 0 ? disci tubo dense sericeo. Eurybia Lyallii, Fl. Antaret.
il. p. 543.
H a b . Middle Island, Milford Sound, etc., .
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A very magnificent species, found originally in 1841 at Lord Auckland’s Group by Dr. Lyall, but not in
flower. In the ‘Flora Antarctica’ I assumed it to be the same species as the foregoing, and described them as one
plant, under the name of Eurybia Lyallii. Better specimens of 0. Colensoi, together with others from Dr. Lyall both
of 0. Colensoi and Lyallii, from the Middle Island, prove them to be different plants. The present differs from the
foimer in its much larger and broader leaves, with blunt denatures at the margin ; as also in apparently wanting
the ray flowers. The tube of the corolla is densely silky.
Gen. II . EURYBIA, Cass.
Capitulum pauci- v. multiflorum, heterogamum, radiatum. Involucrum oblongum ; squamis oblongis,
imbricatis, exterioribus brevioribus. Receptaculum convexum, parvum, alveolatum, nudum v. subsetosum.
FL radii 1-seriati, ligulati, foeminei : disci tubuiosi, 5-dentati, hermaphroditi. Antlieris breviter aristatis.
Achenium glabrum v. pubescens, costatum. Pappus \-%èùa.i\xs ; setis scabris, subæquilongis.—Erutices tJ.
2iThoTes hahitu variaj capitulis
Trees or shrubs, variable in habit, with generally tomentose under surface of the leaves, branches, and pedicels ;
and corymbs or panicles of small beads of white-rayed flowers, with a yellow disc. Heads few- or many-flowered ;
the outer flowers rayed, female, in one series ; the inner tubular, five-cleft, hermaphrodite. Receptacle convex, contracted,
pitted, naked or with a few bristles. Involucre oblong, of many rigid, scarious, blunt, imbricating scales,
the outer shortest. Achenia smooth, glandular, or pubescent. Pappus of one series of scabrid bristles, nearly
equal in length.—A very large New Holland and Tasmanian genus, unknown elsewhere, except in -New Zealand.
The E. argophylla forms one of the largest forest-trees of Tasmania. (Name, that of the Mother of the Stars in
Greek Mythology ; given in allusion to the numerous star-like flowers.)
Composite?]
§ a. Trees or large sh'ubs, with large broad leaves and much-branched panicles. Capitula with many fiorets.
1. E u r y b i a D C . ; arborea v. fruticosa, foliis alternis petiolatis ovatis ovalibusve coriaceis
integerrimis v. obscure sinuato-dentatis undulatisque utrinque reticulatim venosis subtus ramulis petiolis
corymboque appressissime argenteo-tomentosis nitidis, corymbo amplor amoso, involucri elongati subtur-
biuati squamis eglandulosis apices versus marginibusque lanatis, capitulis 6- 8-floris, acheniis glandulosis,
radii ligulis breviusculis. DC. Frodr. Aster, A. Rich. Flora. Haxtonia, A. Omn. Prodr. Sliawda, Raoul,
Choix de Plantes. Solidago iilita, Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic.
H a b . Throughout the Islands; abundant. Banks and Solander, etc. Nat. name, “ Ake piro,” Col.
(Cultivated in England.)
A large slmib or small tree, 8-15 feet high, with the under surface of the leaves, petioles, and branches of the
corymb covered with white or yellowish tomentum, so closely appressed as to be smooth and shining. Leaves ovate
or oblong, sharp or blunt, veiy coriaceous, 2-3 inches long, on petioles 4—4 inch long, reticulated with raised veins
on both surfaces, quite entire, waved, or obscurely remotely toothed. Corymbs terminal and lateral, 6 inches to a
span across, of very numerous white-rayed capitula, which are many-flowered. Involucre turbinate, 4 inch long;
scales oblong, blunt, pubescent or tomentose at tbe margin and sides. Flowers of the ray few, with broad white
rays; those of the disc six to eight, yellow. Achenium glandular.
2. FmyhixL nitida, Hook, f il ; arborea, foliis altemis petiolatis late ellipticis ovatisve acutis v. acuminatis
marginibus undulatis integerrimis v. repando-subsinuatis subtus pube dense appressa sericea nitenti-
bus costa nervisque fuscis, ramulis corymbique polycephali ramis pilis fuscis densis appressis nitidis,
pedunculis gracilibus, involucri breviter obconici squamis laxe imbricatis exterioribus brevissimis dense
lanatis interioribus linearibus glabratis, fl. radii 15-20 ligulis elongatis, acheniis sericeo-pilosis. E.
alpina, Lindl. in LindL Faxt. Magazine. Solidago arborescens, Forst.
H a b . Southern parts of the Northern, and throughout the Middle Islands. Mount Egmont, 4000
feet, Dieffenhach. (Cultivated in England.)
Very similar in habit and general appearance to the E. furfuracea, but the leaves are broader, usually more
acuminate, not so coriaceous or reticulated, with a less closely appressed and more silky shining tomentum on their
under surfaces. Young branches, petioles, and peduncles covered with silky brown appressed tomentum. Corymb
verjr large, effuse. Capitula 4 inch broad, on rather slender peduncles, /wuoiwcrfi very different in shape from that
of E. furfuracea, being short and broadly obconic, of few loosely-imbricated scales; the outer very short, densely
woolly; inner nearly smooth, as long as the disc. Achenia very hairy.—This pretty species grows and flowers
freely in the Horticidtural Society’s greenhouse at Chiswick, where it was named E. alpha by Dr. Lindley, a name
I had previously applied to a Tasmanian species. The under surface of the leaf is lustrous and very pretty when
fresh.
3. Eurybia Cunninghamii, Hook. fil.; arborea, ramulis corymbis petiolis involucris foliisque subtus
moUiter tomentosis, foliis petiolatis alternis ellipticis oblongis lineari-oblongisve acutis acuminatisve sinuato-
dentatis venis remotis reticulatis, corymbo composito polycephalo, involucri breviter turbinati squamis
omnibus brevibus dense tomentosis glabratisve, floribus radii ligula breviuscula, pappo fusco v. rufescente,
acheniis costatis glaberrimis. Brachyglottis Rani, A. Cmm. Prodr. Solidago canescens. Banks et Sol. MSS.
T a b . XXX.
H ab. Northern and Middle Islands; frequent from the Bay of Islands southward to Banks’
Peninsula. Nat. name, “ Wharangi piro," Middle IshnU, Lyall.
A small tree, 12-14 feet high. Branches, leaves below, petioles, and branches of the corymb covered with
thick, soft, white or ashy tomentum. Leaves petioled, very variable in size and shape, 2-5 inches long, varying from
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