Celmisia Munroi inhabits the northern half of the Middle 
Island of New Zealand, at elevations of 1500 to 4500 ft. 
It was discovered by Dr. Munro of Nelson, in the Upton 
downs of the Marlborough province, and it has since 
been found at various localities about Mt. Cook and 
elsewhere in the Canterbury province. 
_ The plant here figured flowered in a greenhouse of the 
Royal Gardens in May of the present year, the flower 
— lasting, as Mr. Watson informs me, about a fortnight. 
Deser.—Whole plant except the upper surface of the 
leaves and florets clothed with a snow-white cottony ap-— 
pressed wool. Stem short, as thick as the thumb, crowned 
with a thick mass of erect and recurved linear-lanceolate 
leaves, and bearing one or more erect single-fid. scapes. 
Leaves sessile, three to eight inches long by one-third to 
one and a half inches broad, acuminate or subacute, 
coriaceous, subplicate, margins recurved, midrib very 
broad at the base, nerves almost parallel, upper surface 
dark green, clothed with a silvery pellicle, undersurface 
silvery-woolly with a stout midrib. Scape longer than the 
leaves, stout, erect, clothed with erect linear bracts one to 
two inches long, that are green above and silvery-tomen- 
tose dorsally. Head one to two anda half inches broad. 
Involucre broadly campanulate; bracts many-seriate, erect 
or recurved, linear or subulate, acuminate, dorsally woolly. 
Ray-flowers many, in two to three series, tube glabrous ; 
limb linear, white, two-thirds of an inch long or less, tip 
3-toothed. Disc-flowers golden-yellow, very many, tube 
5-cleft. Achenes linear, obtusely angled, glabrous or sparsely 
hispidulous ; pappus-hairs rigid, rather flexuous, unequal, 
scaberulous.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Involucral bract ; 2, floret of ray; 3, do. of disk; 4, hair of pappus; 
5, stamen ; 6, style-arms of ray floret :—<Ad/ enlarged, 
