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Hk. f., and C. serrulata, Buchanan. Its disagreeable odour 

 recalls G. fostidisshna, which it further resembles in its large 

 terminal flowers. Mr. L. Cockayne informs me that the drupes 

 smell as vilely as the crushed leaves. The erose membranous 

 margins of the leaves distinguish the present plant from all 

 the native species except C. serrulata, from which its smaller 

 retuse leaves at once mark it off. 



5. Celmisia armstrongii, sp. nov. 



A species growing in large tufts, with very many leaves, 

 and numerous flower-scapes. 



Leaves 9in. to 12in. long (exclusive of the sheaths), -Jin. to 

 fin. wide, linear-ensiform, tapering regularly from below the 

 middle to the acute point, rigid, entire, strongly recurved at 

 and near the top, the lower part less recurved, longitudinally 

 wrinkled when dry, midrib stiff and prominent ; upper surface 

 greenish-yellow, with a broad yellow band down the middle, 

 and covered by a very delicate pellicle of greenish-grey 

 tomentum ; under surface not wrinkled, clothed except on the 

 midrib with a dense layer of white smoothly-appressed 

 tomentum ; midrib broad and ribbed at the base, and tapering 

 uniformly to the apex ; sheaths broad, many-nerved, glabrous 

 on the inner surface, the back densely covered with white 

 cottony hairs which are continued beyond the edge as a 

 delicate fringe. 



Scapes as long as, or slightly longer than, the leaves, 

 rather slender, everywhere clothed with white cobwebby 

 tomentum ; bracts numerous, linear, acute, fringed with a 

 membranous border of tomentum. 



Heads l^in. across, or less ; involucral scales glabrous, 

 linear-subulate, more or less reflexed, pale-brown. Achenes 

 finely pubescent, grooved. 



Hab. Arthur's Pass (3,000ft.) and Kelly's Hill (3,000ft.- 

 4,000ft.). This is the most abundant species above the bush- 

 line in Westland. 



I have long had it from Mr. J. B. Armstrong, who 

 referred it to C. munroi, Hk. f., but I learn from the Director 

 of the Kew Herbarium that it is quite distinct from that 

 species. 



6. Euphrasia cockayniana, sp. uov. 



A short sparingly-branched plant, 2in.-3in. high, and every- 

 where more or less pubescent with articulate glandular hairs. 

 Branches solitary, or in opposite pairs. 



Leaves in opposite pairs, sessile, quadrate-ovate in outline, 

 about ^in. long by ^in. broad, the lower half cuneate and 

 entire, the upper cut into 5-7 short obtusely rounded teeth, 

 glandular pubescent, especially at the slightly-recurved margin. 



