South Island: Marlborough, from Blenheim southwards to the Conway and Mason 'Rivers. Sea-level to 4000 ft, December–January.

A very handsome and remarkable plant, quite unlike any other species. It departs widely from the typical Olearias in the large broadly ovoid involucre with the bracts in very many series, and in the pappus of perfectly equal hairs.

Chatham Islands: Abundant in moist places, near the margin of woods, &c. Hangatare. November–December.

A beautiful little plant, easily recognised by its small size, narrow leaves, slender peduncles, and purple flowers. I am indebted to Mr. Cockayne for a very interesting series of specimens showing the range of variation in the size and shape of the leaves. See his paper on "The Plant-covering of Chatham Island," Trans, N.Z. Inst. xxxiv. 288, for some remarks on the subject.

Chatham Islands: In swampy places on the higher parts of the island and on cliffs, H. H. Travers! Enys! Cox! Keketerehe. November–February.

This comes very near to O. operina and O. angustifolia, but is sufficiently distinct in the broader leaves and more slender peduncles with fewer bracts.

Var. robusta, Kirk, Students' Fl. 265.—Branches short, stout. Leaves shorter and broader, with more deeply toothed margins. Peduncles shorter and stouter.

South Island: Sounds of the south-west coast, from Martin's Bay to Preservation Inlet; abundant. December–January.

South Island: Puysegur Point, Kirk; near the Bluff Hill, Aston.-Stewart Island: Sea-coast south of Paterson's Inlet, Lyall, Kirk! Petrie Thomson! Titi-a-weka. November–December.

A very handsome plant, distinguished from O. operina by the larger size, narrower and longer leaves with the veins evident beneath, large foliaceous bracts, and larger heads with deep-purple disc-florets. The flowers are highly fragrant.

Stewart Island: Near the sea in the southern part of the island, rare and local, Kirk! November–December.

A very fine plant, closely allied to 0. Golensoi, but easily separated by the narrower leaves and rayed flower-heads.

North Island: Mount Hikurangi, Ruahine Mountains. Tararua Mountains, alt. 3000–5500 ft. South Island: Common on the mountains on the western side of the Island, descending to sea-level in the sounds of the southwest coast. Stewart Island: Abundant from sea-level to the tops of the hills. Tupari. December–January.

A very handsome plant. On the mountains it usually forms a densely branched shrub, but at low levels on Stewart Island it attains the dimensions of a small tree.

The Snares: Abundant, Kirk! Auckland Islands: Apparently rare,. Lyall, Bolton, Kirk!

A magnificent plant, nearly related to O. Colensoi, but at once distinguished by the open and far more robust habit, larger and broader leaves, which are tomentose on the upper surface as well as beneath, and by the scales of the involucre being in several series.

North Island: Buchanan! The exact locality not known.

Founded on a single specimen in Mr. Kirk's herbarium stated to have been, collected by Mr. Buchanan in the year 1870 in some locality in the North Island. It is evidently a distinct species, not closely related to any other. It and O. Traversii are the only species found in New Zealand with large opposite leaves.

Chatham Islands: Abundant in woods. Akeahe. October–November.

A well-marked plant, easily recognised by the opposite leaves, axillary panicles, and discoid heads.

North Island: Abundant from the North Cape to Hawke's Bay and Tara-naki. Wharangipiro; Akepiro. November–February.

A very common plant to the north of the East Cape, varying greatly in the size, shape, and texture of the leaves, the size of the flower-heads, and the number of florets. Two forms may perhaps be distinguished, one with broad heads containing 8–12 florets, the other with much narrower heads and 4 to 8 florets. To this state Mr. Kirk gives the varietal name of angustata,

North Island: Great Barrier Island, not uncommon, ascending to 2500 ft., Kirk! November–December.

Differs from O furfuracea in the much smaller size, smaller close-set excessively rigid and coriaceous leaves, and especially in the much larger heads with twice the number of florets. I have a plant from Castle Hill, Coromandel, which resembles it in foliage, but forms a large shrub 12 ft. high. A similar form has been gathered by Petrie at Mercury Bay. But both of these have few-flowered heads only slightly larger than those of the typical state of O. furfuracea, and are best placed under that species.

Var. cordatifolia, Kirk, Students' Fl. 268.—Leaves orbicular, cordate at the base, very coriaceous. Heads broadly obconic; involucral scales densely woolly, inner villous at the tips. Florets about 20; those of the ray with long and narrow ligules.

Var. angustifolia, Cheesem.— Leaves 2–3½ in. long, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, almost membranous, margins sinuate. Corymbs lax, much-branched. Heads large, in. long; rays long and narrow.

Var. capillaris, Kirk, l.c.—Small, stout or slender, densely or sparingly branched. Leaves small, ¼–1 in. long, ovate or rounded, membranous or sub-coriaceous, silky above when young. Heads 3–12, in sparingly branched corymbs longer than the leaves; pedicels very slender; involucral scales glabrate or slightly villous. Florets 8–12.—O. capillaris, Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. iii. 1871) 212.

North and South Islands, Stewart Island: Not uncommon from the East Cape and Taupo southwards. Sea-level to 4000 ft. November–January. Var. cordatifolia: Stewart Island, Kirk! Var. angustifolia: Ohinemuri Gorge, Thames Valley, T. F. C. Petrie! Var. capillaris: Mount Egmont, Adams and T.F.C.; Nelson mountains, H. H. Travers! Dall! source of the Poulter River (Canterbury), Cockayne!

Perhaps the most variable species of the genus, but generally to be recognised in all its forms by the thin white and peculiarly satiny tomentum on the under-surface of the leaves.

North and South Islands: In mountain districts from the East Cape-and Taupo southwards. 1500–4000 ft. January–February.

A distinct species, at once recognised by the large coarsely toothed leaves.

Var. mollis, Kirk, Students' Fl. 269.—Young branchlets, inflorescence, and leaves beneath densely clothed with laxly appressed white or yellowish-white-tomentum. Leaves rounded at the bass, with much smaller, softer, and less spinous teeth; veins more prominent beneath.

North and South Islands, Stewart Island: In mountain districts from the East Cape and Taupo southwards. Sea-level to 4000 ft. January–February. Var. mollis: Nelson, Dall! Teremakau Valley, Westland, Petrie! Cockayne!

In its ordinary state this has a very different appearance to O. macrodonta,. but intermediates are not uncommon.

Var. colorata, Kirk, Students' Fl. 269.—Leaves narrower, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate. Otherwise as in the type.—O. colorata, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xii. (1880) 362.

North and South Islands: Abundant in woods from the North Cape to Marlborough and Nelson. Sea-level to 2500 ft. Heketara. October–November.

A very variable plant. The leaves are sometimes coarsely toothed and at other times almost entire; the involucral scales vary from linear-oblong and densely tomentose to linear and almost glabrous. Mr. Kirk describes the var. colorata as having the scales nearly glabrous, but they are densely tomentose in Mr. Colenso's type specimens and in all others that I have seen.

North Island: Tararua Mountains, Mitchell! Mount Holdsworth, T. P. Arnold! South Island: Mr. H. J. Matthews has sent specimens from a cultivated plant raised from seed obtained in the Nelson District.

South Island: Nelson—Mountains behind Collingwood, Dall! Mount Arthur Plateau, T.F.C. 3000–4500 ft. January.

A well-marked plant, distinguished by the pale fulvous tomentum, oblong; obtuse leaves, and small heads collected in slender much-branched panicles.

South Island: Nelson—Heaphy River and mountains at the source of the-Aorere, Dall! source of the Takaka, Mount Arthur Plateau, Mount Owen, T.F.C.; Mount Murchison, Townson! Lake Rotoroa, Travers. Canterbury— Harper's Pass, Haast; Poulter River, Cockayne! Westland—Teremakau Valley, Petrie! 3000–4500 ft. January–February.

A well-marked plant, easily known by the large linear leaves clothed with rusty tomentum beneath, and transversely rugose from the numerous main veins spreading at right angles to the midrib.

North Island: Wellington—Tararua Mountains and hills towards Wanganui, Buchanan.

I have seen no specimens of this, and the above description is adapted from Buchanan's. It is evidently near to O. lacunosa, but appears to have narrower-leaves.

South Island: Canterbury — Arthur's Pass, Kirk! Upper Rakaia, Haast! Rangitata Valley, Potts; Mount Cook district, abundant, Haast, T.F.C.; Lake Ohau, Buchanan! Otago—Lake district, Hector and Buchanan! Humboldt Mountains, Mount Tyndall, Clinton Saddle, Petrie! 2000–4500 ft. January–February.

A distinct species, easily separated from its immediate allies by the small obovate leaves, soft white tomentum, and broad many-flowered heads.

South Island: Canterbury—Kowai River, Petrie! T.F.C.; Upper Rakaia, Haast; Rangitata Valley, Potts! Ohau Glacier, Haast. 1500–4500 ft. December–January.

South Island: Canterbury—Ashburton Mountains, Potts! Upper Rangitata, Armstrong! Otago—Resolution Island and Preservation Inlet, Enys! 1500–3500 ft. January.

Only differs from O. Haastii in the more erect habit and longer and narrower leaves. Intermediate forms have been collected, but the usual aspect of the plant is distinct.

South Island: Marlborough—Awatere Valley and Mount Fyffe, Kirk!

Apparently a very distinct species, the exact position of which must remain doubtful until flowering specimens have been obtained.

Var. cymboifolia, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 732.—Leaves spreading or deflexed, oblong, obtuse, convex above, margins much revolute all round, hence boat-shaped with the cavity beneath; more or less clothed with white stellate tomentum. Heads as in the typical form, but scales usually more tomentose.

North and South Islands: Mountain districts from the East Cape and Taupo to Foveaux Strait, but local to the south of Lake Wanaka. Altitudinal range from 2000 ft. to 4500 ft., but descending to sea-level in Colac Bay, Southland. Var. cymbifolia: Mountain districts in the South Island, but local; most plentiful in Nelson and Marlborough.

A variable plant, especially in the size and shape of the leaves, the extent to which the leaf-margins are revolute, the size of the heads, and the number of florets. There is a specimen in Mr. Petrie's herbarium with the heads collected in 3–5-flowered corymbs.

North Island: Spirits Bay, North Cape district, Kirk! April–May.

This only differs from O. albida in the shorter and broader much more waved leaves, and, in my opinion, would have been best treated as a form of that plant.

North Island: North Cape to Taranaki and the East Cape, usually near the sea, but not common. April–May.

South Island, Stewart Island: Abundant throughout, ascending to 3000 ft. Akeake. January–February.

Var. elliptica, Kirk, l.c.—Leaves narrower, linear-oblong or elliptic-oblong.

North and South Islands: From the East Cape southwards to Oamaru. and Greymouth; often local, usually near the coast. Sea-level to 1500 ft. Akiraho. April–May.

The heads never contain more than one floret, which is invariably tubular and hermaphrodite. On account of the constancy of this character Mr. Kirk has proposed to revive Forster's genus Shawia, but, I think, quite unnecessarily. In O. avicenniæfolia the florets are sometimes reduced to 2, and occasionally-there is no ray-floret, thus absolutely bridging over the gap between O. Forsteri and the remaining Oleariæ.

South Island: Canterbury—Lake Forsyth, Kirk! Otago—Otago Heads, Buchanan! Petrie! near Dunedin, Catlin's River, Petrie! November–December.

A very distinct species, remarkable for the heads being congested into; globose fascicles or glomerules. The flowers are deliciously fragrant, smelling, like ripe peaches.

South Island: Maryborough — Pelorus Sound, Rutland! Canterbury — Bank.s Peninsula, J. B. Armstrong. Otago — Lake district, Hector and Buchanan; Kaitangata, Catlin's River, Invercargill, Kawarau Gorge, Matukituki Valley, Petrie! Sea-level to 2500 ft. October–November.

South Island: Mountain districts in Canterbury, Westland, and Otago; not uncommon. 1000–3000 ft. January–February.

Closely allied to O. virgata, but distinguished by the terete branchlets, larger leaves, many-flowered heads, and viscid and glandular involucral bracts.

South Island: Westland—Hokitika, H. Tipler!

Very similar to O. odorata in habit and appearance, but the fascicles are larger and much more lax, the peduncles longer, the involucral bracts not viscid nor glandular, and the florets much fewer in number. I have only seen two sepecimens.

Var. ramuliflora, Kirk, Students' Fl. 276.—Leaves in opposite fascicles of 2–6, rather larger, ¼–¾ in. long, flat. Heads more numerous, in fascicles of 2–6; peduncles slender, often ¼ in. long or more, silky. Involucres tomentose or villous. Florets 7–12.—0. ramuliflora, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii. (1890) 467.

Var. lineata, Kirk, Students' Fl. 276.— Branchlets more slender, spreading, often silky-pubescent. Leaves ½–1½ in. long, very narrow-linear, glabrate or silky above, tomentose beneath; margins much revolute. Heads fascicled; peduncles slender, silky. Involucre villous or tomentose. Forets 12–20.

North and South Islands: From the Thames Valley and Rotorua southwards; not uncommon. Sea-level to 3000 ft. December–January.

North Island: From the North Cape southwards, plentiful near the coast. South Island: D'Urville Island, Bryant; Queen Charlotte and Pelorus Sounds, Rutland! MacMahon. Sea-level to 1000 ft. February–May.