genus. In the uniseriate ray flowers with rather broad 
ligule it more resembles Aster, differing in the terete 
achene. In his notes on the Botany of the Island, Dr. 
Lindsay states that the soft cottony matter on the leaves — 
of some species of Celmisia forms balls or concretions in 
the stomachs of animals that obstruct the passage of food 
through the intestines, and so frequently causes fatal 
disease. 
The specimen here figured is considerably larger than 
the native ones collected and figured by Dr. Lindsay, in 
which also the ray corollas are faintly lilac. It was received 
at Kew in 1884 from the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens, 
and flowered in May of the present year in a cold pit. 
Mr. Lindsay informs me that Mr. Max Leichtlin sent the 
plant to Edinburgh some years ago, that it has not yet 
flowered there in the open ground, and that it requires 
eats in winter, but from damp rather than from 
cold. 
Descr. Stems densely tufted from a stout rootstock, 
nearly as thick as a swan’s quill, and three to six inches 
long, upper parts densely leafy. Leaves two to four inches 
long, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, obscurely 
distantly denticulate, very coriaceous, smooth, dark green, 
glabrous and shiny above, beneath clothed with snow- 
white appressed tomentum; nerves beneath few, obscure, 
and midrib green. Scape five to six inches high, slender, — 
flexuous ; bracts linear, green, lower one to two inches 
long, with recurved margins, white beneath. Involucre 
cylindric, glabrous; bracts many-seriate, linear, acuminate, 
appressed. Lay flowers thirty to forty, spreading but 
not recurved ; margins recurved, tips minutely three- 
toothed. Disk flowers yellow. Stamens with obtuse bases. 
“ oD ies silky ; pappus of few rigid unequal bristles. 
Fig. 1, Flower of ray; 2, its pa bristles : ee ip | 
d, style-arms of disk flower a eh i Rey Homer oh aks 6 ; 
