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from whose bases arose no fewer than thirteen flowering scapes, ten of them with the blossoms fully expanded. 

 The delicacy of the rays, tipped with a faint rose-colour, forms a striking contrast with the dark purple eye and 

 the glossy varnished deep green foliage. Like many other Antarctic plants, it varies considerably in size, some 

 of our specimens being scarcely an inch and a half across the leaves, which lie densely compacted and all hori- 

 zontally patent, radiating from the summit of the root like the spokes of a wheel, of a very coriaceous texture, 

 singularly smooth and shining like the surface of a shell, or as if covered with a thick coat of copal varnish : 

 their apices in the smaller specimens are incrassated or the leaves are clubbed at the apex, from the union of 

 the thick costa with the equally incrassated margins. This thickening extends to the bractese or leaves on the 

 scapes and even to the scales of the involucre ; when dry they are of a rich but pale yellow-brown colour. 



The genus Celmisia, as modified above, will contain several species very closely allied in habit, and all 

 bearing a much greater similarity to the original Australian C. longifolia, A. C, than the C. vernicosa does. 

 Upon the closest examination, I can detect no characters of sufficient importance to warrant any further subdi- 

 vision of the following species, which I shall therefore include under the name of Eucelmisia, considering them 

 as typical of the genus, near to which the above -described species should assuredly rank. 



I shall here, in a note, subjoin the characters of the other species, and proceed with some remarks upon 

 them*. 



* Synopsis of the species of Celmisia known to the Author. 



CELMISIA, Cass. 



§ I. Eucelmisia. 

 1 . Species Australasica. 



1. C. longifolia, Cass.; foliis linearibus utrinque argenteo-lanatis scapo lanuginoso subsequilongis, pappo 

 rufo, achaeniis glaberrimis, stylorum apicibus breviusculis obtusis. 



a. foliis explanatis, scapo folioso. — Hab. Jamieson's Valley, Port Jackson ; Gaudichaud. 



/3. foliorum marginibus revolutis, scapo nudiusculo. — Hab. Blue Mountains ; Cunningham. 



2. C. spathulata, A. C. ; " foliis elliptico-oblongis in petiolum longe attenuatis utrinque glabris." — DeC. 

 Hab. Oyster Harbour, King George's Sound ; A. Cunningham. 



3. C. asteliafolia, MSS. ; foliis elliptico- v. lineari-lanceolatis, supra argenteo-lanatis subtus dense sericeo- 

 tomentosis marginibus revolias, scapis folio subduplo longioribus parce foliosis, achaeniis pilosis, antheris basi 

 breviter biaristatis, stylorum apicibus ut in C longifolia. 



Hab. Mount Wellington and other lofty mountains of Tasmania ; Frazer and Gunn. 



2. Species Nova Zelandia. 



4. C. gracilenta, Hook, fih Aster gracilentus, Banks and Sol. MSS. ; foliis scapisque ut in C. asteliafolia, 

 achaeniis glaberrimis, styli ramis longe productis gradatim acuminatis, papillis filiformibus elongatis. 



Hab. New Zealand, Northern Island; Banks and Solander. Great Barriere Island on the East coast; 

 Dr. Sinclair. Lofty mountains of Waikato Lake ; Colenso, Bidwill. Mount Egmont ; Dr. Dieffenbach. 



5. C. graminifolia , Hook. fil. ; foliis lanceolatis v. lineari-lanceolatis subflaccidis, supra glaberrimis, subtus 

 appresse argenteo-lanatis, acuminatis, scapis 2-3 foliis brevioribus, stylis ut in C. gracilenta. 



Hab. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 



6. C. spectabilis. Hook. fil. ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis integerrimis valde coriaceis basi vaginantibus longis- 



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