Olearia excorticata, n. s.

A small, much branched, subalpine shrub-tree 12–15 feet high, trunk 1 foot diameter. Branches covered with loose papery bark. Branchlets, petioles, leaves below, and panicle, covered with whitish buff tomentum. Leaves shortly petioled, 1–4 inches long, narrow, oblong, acuminate at both ends, 1 inch broad, flat, margins bluntly sinuate, glabrous, dark green and finely reticulate above, thinly coriaceous, lateral nerves nearly at right angles to mid-rib, but not prominent. Panicles axillary, few-flowered, corymbose, peduncles elongate, branches and branchlets capillary. Flower-heads small, campanulate, involucral scales few, inner row linear, obtuse, outer row much shorter, oblong, acuminate, pubescent. Florets 12–14, very small. Pappus