T. Kirk. — On Neio Forms of Celmisia. 329 



C. adamsii, n.s. 



Leaves 5in.-12in. long, including the petiole, -Jin. -fin. 

 broad, membranous but firm, narrow oblong - lanceolate, 

 sparingly denticulate, nearly glabrous above, white with loose 

 tomentum beneath, midrib prominent beneath ; petiole 

 iin.-^in. the length of the blades, cottony, grooved. Scapes 

 6in.-15in. long, slender, often flexuous, more or less clothed 

 with loose tomentum; bracts few, short, acute. Heads 

 lin.-l^in. across. Achene glabrous. 



Hab. North Island : Kaueranga Creek ; T. E. Whakairi, 

 2,000ft. ; J. Adams and T. F. Cheeseman. Castle Eock, Coro- 

 mandel ; T. F. Cheeseman. 



In April, 1869, I collected this plant in small quantity far 

 up the Kaueranga Creek, but owing to the advanced period of 

 the season the specimens were in such poor condition that the 

 plant could only be recorded in my account of the botany of 

 the Thames Goldfield as Celmisia sp. * In 1882 Mr. Adams 

 discovered the plant on Whakairi, f higher up the creek, 

 when I attached the specific name under which it is now 

 described. Still more recently it was found by Mr. T. F. 

 Cheeseman at Whakairi and Castle Eock, Coromandel, and 

 I am indebted to his goodness for excellent specimens. 



It is a very distinct species, allied to C. graminifolia, 

 Hook, f., and G. monroi, Hook, f., with leaves intermediate 

 between C. densiflora, Hook, f., and C. discolor, Hook, f., 

 but more membranous than either. It bears exactly the 

 same relationship to G. longifolia that C. chapmanii bears to 

 C. vemicosa. 



C. rutlandii, n.s. 



Leaves with the grooved petioles 5in.-9in. long, lin. -^in- 

 broad ; petioles shorter than the blade, broad, clothed with 

 snow-white tomentum, blade broadly ovate-lanceolate, acute 

 or slightly acuminate, silvery beneath, margins entire or 

 denticulate, midrib and lateral nerves obvious. Scapes erect, 

 6in.-10in. high, hoary, bracts numerous, linear-acuminate, 

 purplish. Heads lin.-1-Jin. across; involucral bracts narrow, 

 linear-acuminate, the outer cottony ; rays many ; achenes 

 silky ; pappus brown. 



Hab. South Island : Mount Stokes. P. A. MacmaJion I 

 A handsome species, allied to C. petiolata, Hook, f., from 

 which it differs in the white tomentum of the short petiole, 

 the acute broad leaves with their silvery undersurface, and the 

 more numerous and chaffy involucral bracts. 



* Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. ii. (1869), p. 97. 



t Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xvi. (1883), p. 386, and vol. xvii., p. 378. 



