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NOTES ON SOiME COMPOSIT.E OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND. 259
Buchanan, in the N. Z. Exhib. Catalogue (p. 68), mentions the fol-
lowing also as Otago species :
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3. S. rotundifolim. Hook. f. The " Puheritaiko" of the South Is-
land Maori (Lvall). A very ornamental shrub-tree of west coast.
Flowers in corymbs. Leaves thick, leathery, 3-7 in. long.
4. >S'. elengtiifoUns, Hook. f. Also an ornamental shrub- tree. Leaves
elliptico-oblong ;
flowers in racemes.
5. S. sciadopliilus, Kaoul. A climbing shrub of rambling habit.
Genus IIL Cassinia.
1. C.fulvida, Hook. f. {C. leptophjlla, Fl. N. Z. pr. p.). Uplands
about base of Saddlehill ; Chain Hill ranges ; Lookout Point near
Dunedin ; Kaikorai valley and slopes of Kaikorai Hill ; October, in
flower, W. L. L. Usually forming " scrub ;" frequently intermixed
with the dwarf scrub forms of the Leptosperraa, and probably confounded
therewith by th.e settlers under their designations " Manuka" or " Tea-
tree."
Tilt; plant was named by. Dr. Hooker in my herbarium C. lepto-
phjlla, but in his ' Handbook' (p. 145) he evidently refers it to C.
fidvida. I have no authentic specimens of the former ; but the de-
scriptions of the two species in the Handb. Fl. N. Z. lead me to refer
both to one type. I suspect they grow intermixed and exhibit pas-
sage-forms. I doubt whether mere glutinosity and the fulvous colour
of the tomentum of the under side of the leaf are sufficient characters
for separation as species.
Again, the only good difterence between fulvida and Vauvilliersii
seems to me to be the constantly narrower leaf in the former. There
is much less difterence between these species than between varieties of
the species of several other common Otago plants [e.g. Rubiis ails-
trans']. C. fulvida seems to connect leptophylla with Vauvilliersii.
Probably all the N. Z. Cassinia at present known will at no distant
date be united into one or at most two types. "What appears to be a
dwarf, procumbent form oifulvida has proved hardy in cultivation about
Edinburgh. At Trinity it has stood against northern and western
walls for two winters (1865-7). Some exposed shoots only were in-
jured by the frost of January, 1867 (Gorrie), In this cultivated form,
there is no tomentum on leaf or branches ;
nor is there any glutinosity.
Both leaf and branches are quite glabrous. But the under side of the
leaf, in the young wholly, and in the old in patches, is stained a gam-