182 Transactions. 



Celmisia Cockayniana sp. nov. 



Folia anguste obovato-spathulata, 5-10 cm. longa, l|-2 cm. lata, sub- 

 acuta, subcoriacea, minute denticulata (denticulis subteretibus), minute 

 apiculata ; superne glabra, distincte venosa ; subtus dense et appresse 

 albo-tomentosa (costa media excepta), venis haud distinctis. 



Scapi 2-3, 1^—2 dcm. longi, subgraciles, pilis articulatis glandulosis (ut 

 etiam bracteae involucrique squamae) viscosi, rare- apice divisi ; bracteae 

 numerosae, + imbricatae, lanceolato-oblongae, acutae vel subacutae. 



Involucri squamae pluri-seriatae, lineari-subulatae ; interiores longiores 

 angustioresque, apicibus sparse lanatae. 



Capitula magnitudine mediocria, + 12 mm. lata. 



Aehaenia linearia, hispido-sericea. 



Leaves rather few, narrow obovate-spathulate, 5-10 cm. long, 1^-2 cm. 

 broad, subacute, rather coriaceous, distantly and minutely denticulate, the 

 short semiterete teeth standing out from the margin, bluntly apiculate ; 

 upper surface dull green (when dry), glabrous, with evident venation ; 

 under-surface densely clothed with closely appressed whitish tomentum, 

 except the midrib, veins indistinct. 



Scapes 2-3 on each short creeping shoot, lf-2 dcm. high, viscid, 

 densely clothed, as are the bracts and involucral scales, with glandular 

 jointed hairs, rarely branched at the top ; bracts numerous, overlapping, 

 lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, acute or subacute. 



Involucral bracts numerous, in several series ; the inner longer, 

 narrower, and sparingly cottony above. 



Heads of moderate size (about 12 mm. across). 



Achenes linear, hispidly silky. 



Hab. — Mount Fyffe, Seaward Kaikouras, at 4,000 ft. 



For specimens of this species I am indebted to Dr. L. Cockayne, who 

 collected them so long ago as 1892. I have put off describing them, in 

 the hope that further material might be procured, but the plant has not 

 been met with since. Its affinity is with C. hieracifolia Hook. f. In form 

 the leaves recall those of some states of C. Sinclairii Hook, f., but they 

 are more coriaceous and much less distinctly dentate. The abundant 

 glandular pubescence of the scape and its members relates it more clearly 

 to C. hieracifolia, from which it differs in the whitish tomentum and in 

 the smaller narrower spathulate more acute leaves. 



Celmisia Boweana sp. nov. 



Folia parum numerosa, stricta, integerrima, vix coriacea, 14-22 cm. 

 longa, 1-1| cm. lata, anguste lineari - lanceolata, ad apicem versus 

 gradatim attenuata, acuta, marginibus + recurvis ; superne glabra vel 

 glabrescentia, per totam longitudinem rugato - sulcata, flavido - viridia ; 

 subtus + sulcata, pilis flavidis laxe appressis (costa media excepta) 

 tomentosa ; apicibus nonnunquam laxe lanatis. 



Vaginae + 6 cm. longae, striatae, membranaceae, extra incano-tomen- 

 tosae, intus plerumque glabrae. 



Scapi 1-4, tenuiores, foliis sabduplo longiores, pilis subfiavidis laxe 

 tomentosi ; bracteae numerosae, lineares, ad apicem versus diminuentes. 

 tomentosae. 



Capitulum + 2| cm. latum ; involucri squamae lineares, tenues, to- 

 mentosae. 



Aehaenia glabra vel parum hispidula. 



