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Stems creeping and rooting at the nodes, leafy, moderately stout, 

 glabrous. 



Leaves in opposite pairs, connate at the base, close-set and often over- 

 lapping, 2\- 3J cm. long, l-\\ cm. broad, narrow elliptic-obovate, obtuse, 

 contracted into rather broad flat petioles nearly as long as the blades, semi- 

 membranous, glabrous, delicately repando-denticulate above the middle, 

 reddish at the edges ; veins evident, diverging from the conspicuous 

 midrib. 



Peduncles short, elongating in fruit, slender, near the tips of the branches ; 

 calyx-lobes lanceolate-subulate, acute, nearly equalling the rather broad 

 slightly notched pale-red p Is. 



Capsules glabrous, rather stout, + 5 cm. long, when mature on slender 

 erect peduncles about as long as the capsules ; seeds obovate, 1^ mm. long, 

 delicately papillose. 



Hob. — Antipodes Island. B. C. Aston ! 



The above description has been drawn up from specimens grown in my 

 garden, and raised from seed obtained from dried capsules kindly sent me 

 by Mr. Aston, whose specimens were all past flower. 



3. Celmisia semicordata sp. nov. 



Celmisia C. coriaceae Hook. f. affinis ; differt foliis subcordatis, supra 

 pellicula delicatissima argenteo-cinerea levi vestitis ; scapis gracilioribus 

 brevioribusque ; capitulis minoribus ; petalis brevioribus glaberrirnisque ; 

 acheniis glabris. 



Leaves 15-30 cm. long, 3-5 cm. broad, oblong-lanceolate, acute or sub- 

 acute, semicordate at the base, coriaceous, quite entire, with evident mid- 

 rib but otherwise nerveless ; above more or less furrowed longitudinally 

 when dried, and covered with a very delicate smooth silvery or greenish- 

 grey pellicle ; below flat, more or less recurved at the edges, clothed with 

 dense smooth closely appressed white silky tomentum ; sheaths about ^ as 

 long as the blades, thin, striate, narrowed above, more or less clothed with 

 white cottony tomentum. 



Scapes 30^0 cm. long, slender covered with loosely appressed cottony 

 pubescence, scarcely tomentose ; bracts erect, narrow-linear, becoming 

 shorter upwards. 



Heads 2|— 4 cm. across, few to each tuft ; involucral bracts in 2-3 series, 

 glabrate or the outer slightly cottony, linear-subulate, brown, thickened 

 below ; petals numerous, spreading, narrow, If cm. long ; tube of corolla 

 narrow and quite glabrous. 



Achene 5 mm. long, glabrous, linear, ribbed, slightly compressed ; pappus 

 equalling or slightly exceeding the achene. 



Hob.— Buckland Peaks (near Westport), 3,300-4,000 ft, ; Charleston, 

 30-40 ft. 



The Charleston specimens have much shorter and more slender scapes 

 and smaller flower-heads than usual, while their subacute leaves exhibit 

 remarkable variation in size, being often less than half as long as in the 

 typical mountain form, which shows very little variation. The plant is 

 plentiful above the bush-line on the Buckland Peaks, and at higher levels 

 is associated with C. Armstrongii and C. Dallii. 



2— Trans. 



