Tas. 7496. 
CELMISIA Moyrot. 
Native of New Zealand. 
Nat. Ord. Composita.—Tribe ASTEROIDES. 
Genus Cetmisia, Cass.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 278.) 
Cetmista Munroi; caule robusto, foliis perplurimis 3-8-poll. longis 3-1} poll. 
latis sessilibus anguste lineari-oblongis acuminatis coriaceis subplicatis 
marginibus recurvis supra laete viridibus pellicula gossypina argenteo- 
nitidula obtectis enerviis, subtus lana sericea argentea appressa opertis, 
costa crassa, scapo foliis longiore valido gossypino, bracteis linearibus 
numerosis elongatis erectis, capitulo 1-2} poll. lato, involucri late cam- 
panulati bracteis numerosissimis linearibus coriaceis tomentosis erectis 
recurvisve, flosculis radii perplurimis confertis 2-3-seriatis, tubo glabro, 
limbi linearis apice 3-crenato, acheniis linearibus obtuse angulatis glabris 
hispidulisve, pappi setis flexuosis scaberulis. 
C. Munroi, Hook. f. Handb. New Zeal, Fl, p. 133. 
Celmisia Munroi is one of the handsomest of the genus 
which represents in New Zealand the Asters of other parts of 
the world. Upwards of thirty species are known to inhabit 
the Southern Islands of the Archipelago, only two of which 
are also found in the Northern; and of these two one, C. 
longifolia, Cass., extends to the Alps of Australia and 
Tasmania. This latter is the only species that ranges 
throughout the whole length of the New Zealand Islands 
from the Bay of Islands to Otago. 
Many attempts have been made to introduce not a few 
of the species of Celmisia into English gardens, but with 
little success. In so far as I am aware, only two have 
been figured from liying plants grown in this country, C. 
spectabilis, Hook. f., Tab. 66538, and C. Lindsayi, Hook f., 
Tab. 7184, both of this work. 
Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons are the introducers of C. 
Munroi, as they were of CO. spectabilis. The former was 
received at Kew, under the name of C. coriacea, Hook. f., 
a closely allied species with leaves and flowers as large, 
but which differs in the pubescent tubes of the corolla and 
compressed achenes. | ; 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1896. 
