470 Transactions. — Botany. 



Geuus 3. Celmisia, Cass. 



1. C. lucmbranacea, sp. iiov. 



Plant small, erect, 4in.-5in. high. Eootstock vertical, 

 thickish, also horizontal long and slender, sending out long 

 narrow leafy stolons. Leaves sub-rosulate, 8-10, close, 

 spreading, orbicular-elliptic and broadly oblong, f in.-lin. long, 

 membranous, green on both sides, glabrous, minutely glandu- 

 lar on upper surface and margins with depressed circular 

 glands or dots, but not puberulent, finely reticulated, margins 

 slightly revolute and sharply serrate, teeth rather long, curved ; 

 petiole flattish, 3-4 lines long. Scape solitary, erect, slender, 

 3iii.-4-^in. high, thickly glandular pubescent (also involucre), 

 with 5-8 cauline bracts, narrow linear, acute, 3 lines long, 

 equidistant. Head hemispherical, fin. diameter. Involucral 

 scales numerous in 4 rows, linear, the inner row longest, 3 

 lines long, dark-green, 1-nerved, glossy within the apical por- 

 tion, and tips largely ciliate. Florets very numerous : of ray, 

 20 or more, limb long narrow, revolute, 4-veined, tip slightly 

 3-notclied, tube very short and slender, glabrous ; stigma long, 

 exserted : of disk, 32, corolla infundibuliform smooth, 5-6- 

 lobed ; lobes sub-acute ; stigmas slightly exserted. Eeceptacle 

 deeply punctiform, with irregular and high scaly margins. 

 Pappus shorter than tube of disc-florets, of irregular lengths, 

 scabrid, acute, reddish. Achene hnear somewhat quadrangu- 

 lar, striate, sub-compressed, pubescent on stria^, base finely 

 beaked. 



Hab. Open lands at Taupo ; 1889 : Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. This species is very near C. glandiilosa, Hook. f. (a 

 plant collected by me in that same locality), but differs from 

 C. filandnlom in having membranous and broader leaves 

 without pubescence, and with differently-formed glands, long 

 petioles, numerous scales to involucre, and a much larger 

 number of florets ; its acliene also being angled, &c. 



2. C. 'pci'pii^lll'-f, !^P- iiov. 



A very small plant, sub-erect and slightly tufted ; root- 

 stock stoutish, straight, liin. long, with many long wiry 

 rootlets at the extremity. Leaves 8-14, linear-lanceolate, 

 sub lin. long, 1^ lines wide, margins entire, tip obtuse, pale- 

 green, glabrous above, very cotton\- closely appressed and 

 shining below, concave, conduplicate. Scape short as long as 

 leaves, single, erect, leafy, with a few small bracts, very 

 woolly. Head small, 4 "^hnes diameter, spreading. Outer 

 involucral scales 5, broadly oblong, woolly in the centre \ the 

 inner 7 linear, glabrous, longer than outer, green aiid shining 

 below, their tips obtuse, notched, with 1 circular brown spot, 



