Tap. 7184, 
CELMISIA Linpsayt. 
Native of New Zealand. 
Nat. Ord. Comrositm.—Tribe AsTEROIDEs. 
Genus Cetmista, Cassini; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 278.) 
Crermista Lindsayi ; rhizomate repente, foliis 2-4 pollicaribus lineari-oblongis 
lanceolatisve obtusiusculis remote denticulatis coriaceis supra levibus 
glabris subtus appresse niveo-tomentosis nervis paucis obscuris, scapo 
gracili puberulo, bracteis linearibus, capitulo 2 poll. diam., involucri cylin- 
dracei glabri viridis bracteis multiseriatis linearibus acuminatis appressis, 
ligulis ad 30 vix biseriatis lmearibus albis non recurvis, disci corollis aureis 
tubo basi incrassato, antheris basi obtusis, acheniis teretiusculis sericeis. 
C. Lindsayi, Hook. f. Handbook of the New Zealand Flora, p. 132; Lindsay, 
Contrib. to New Zeald. Bot. p. 58, t. 3, f. 1. 
Under C. spectabilis, Plate 6658, I have made a few 
observations on the Celmisias, the great Daisies of New 
Zealand, and their value as cultivated plants; but nume- 
rous as they are, nearly thirty species being known, almost 
all attempts to raise and flower them from seed have proved 
unavailing; in fact, the only two that are known to me 
in cultivation are the present and the one above alluded 
to. Their near allies, the shrubby Eurybias and Olearias 
of the same islands, grow fairly well in the latitude 
of London, but not with the luxuriance which they 
attain in the west of England and Ireland; and as 
some of them inhabit the same country and even 
localities as some Celmisias, there is every reason to hope 
that many of the latter may find as congenial conditions 
m the rock garden as Dr. Balfour tells me that C. specta- 
bilis has in the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens. aay 
C. Lindsayi was discovered by the late Dr. Lauder Lind- 
say during a visit which he made to New Zealand 
on trap cliffs at the mouth of the Cluthe River, Shaw's 
Bay, in the province of Otago. It differs from the 
normal species in the obtuse bases of the anther-cells, in 
which it resembles an Hrigeron, and invalidates the chief 
character by which Celmisia is distinguished from that 
Seprember Ist, 1890. ' 
