areole at the base. Pappus-hairs thickened at the tips.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 311. Ozothamnus glomeratus, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 133; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 146. Swammerdammia glomerata, Raoul, Choix, 20, t. 16.
North and South Islands: Not uncommon from the North Cape southwards. Sea-level to 2500 ft. November–January.
11. H. lanceolatum, T. Kirk, Students' Fl. 311.—Altogether similar to H. glomeratum, but leaves 1–1½ in. long, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute or subacute, narrowed into a short winged petiole, glabrous above, beneath clothed with white appressed tomentum; margins flat or slightly undulate. Heads, florets, and achenes precisely as in H. glomeratum.—Ozothamnus lanceolatus, Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. ii. (1870) 88.
North Island: Mountains near Hokianga, Buchanan! alt. 2000 ft.
Probably only a narrow-leaved variety of the preceding. I have seen no specimens except Mr. Buchanan's.
12. H. depressum, Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. 311.—A suberect or rarely prostrate much-branched bush 1-5 ft. high, hoary in all its parts with appressed greyish-white tomentum; branches spreading, rigid and wiry, often tortuous. Leaves minute, closely appressed to the branch, laxly imbricating, 112–110 in. long, linear, obtuse, concave and loosely woolly on the inner face, silky or woolly on the back. Heads small, ⅙ in. diam., solitary, sessile at the tips of the branchlets; involucral bracts few, linear, scarious, acute or acuminate, rarely obtuse, glabrate or cottony at the base. Florets 8–12; females few, 2–3. Achene glabrous or puberulous. Pappus-hairs in several series, copious, slender.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 311. Ozothamnus depressus, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 134, t. 35b; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 146.
North Island: Hawke's Bay—Tukituki River, Petrie! South Island: Not uncommon throughout, usually on shingly river-beds. 1000–4000 ft. December–February.
13. H. microphyllum, Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. 311.—A small depressed much-branched shrub 6–15 in. high; branchlets slender, crowded, tomentose, with the leaves 112–18 in. diam. Leaves minute, closely appressed to the branch, densely and almost quadrifariously imbricating, 116–112 in. long, ovate or triangular, obtuse, thick and coriaceous, concave and densely woolly on the inner face, green and polished and obscurely keeled on the back. Heads terminal, solitary, sessile, turbinate, ⅕–¼ in. diam.; involucral bracts in about 3 series, linear-oblong, obtuse, scarious. Florets 20–25; female few, in 1 series. Achene pubescent. Pappus-hairs few, not thickened at the tip.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 312. Ozothamnus microphyllus, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 134, t. 35a; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 146.
