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A rather low sparingly branched nndershrub. 



Branches slender, ascending and more or less divaricating, subterete, 

 striate, hoary with soft dense pubescence, in age almost glabrous. 



Leaves alternate, rather distant, narrow-elliptic, 3 cm. long, 1 cm. broad, 

 subacute, slightly coriaceous, shortly petiolate ; above dull green glabrous 

 and with evident midrib and areolate veining ; below densely clothed 

 with appressed greyish-white tomentum, venation very obscure ; a pro- 

 minent scar with decurrent ridges standing out from the branches after 

 leaf-fall. 



Heads few, few-flowered (5-8 flowers in each), 4 mm. long, rather 

 crowded, subracemosely arranged on short lateral branchlets placed some 

 distance below the tops of the main branches ; bracts short, linear. 



Involucre more or less turbinate ; bracts in 3-4 series, lanceolate or 

 linear-lanceolate, subacute, dark brown, nearly glabrous, not viscid ; the 

 upper gradually longer than the lower. 



Rays few, little conspicuous. 



Achenes pubescent. 



Hob. — Queenstown Hill, Lake County. 



This species, which I am pleased to name after its discoverer, was col- 

 lected by Mr. William Willcox, Director of the Queenstown Park. It is 

 somewhat closely allied to 0. oleifolia T. Kirk. Dr. L. Cockayne, F.R.S., 

 F.L.S., of Christchurch, kindly lent me the material for this description. 

 As it was very scanty, allowance must be made for possible inaccuracies, 

 especially in my account of the habit of the plant, which is still but little 

 known. 



5. Celmisia intermedia sp. nov. 



Caules a basi + ramosi, primo plerumque prostrati demum erecti v. 

 ascendentes, in aetate reliquiis vaginarum foliorumque demortuorum per- 

 sistentibus vestiti, graciles. 



Folia conferta, imbricata, anguste obovato- v. elliptico-spathulata, 

 + \\ cm. longa, 6-10 mm. lata, subacuta, tenuia, in partem petiolarem 

 perangustam contracta, denique in vaginam latam amplectentem striatam 

 glabram ampliata, infra (costa excepta) tomento candido arete appresso 

 vestita, supra glabra viscidaque v. tenui pubescentiae subtomentosae 

 argenteae pellicula praedita, a marginibus apiceque minute et subremote 

 dentata, venis baud distinctis. 



Scape in ramulis singulis plerumque 1 (rarius 2), axillares, prope summos 

 ramulos inserti, 7-1-5 cm. longi, gracillimi, parce laxeque tomentosi ; bracteae 

 subdistantes, lineari-subulatae. 



Capitula l-\^ cm. lata ; involucri squamae lineari-subulatae delicate 

 glanduloso-pubescentes, interioribus longioribus. 



Achenia linearia, parce pubescentia, pappo paulo breviora. 



Stems more or less branched below, at first usually prostrate, then erect 

 or ascending, in age clothed with the persistent remains of sheaths and 

 decayed leaves, slender, forming considerable low patches. 



Leaves crowded, imbricating, narrow obovate- or elliptic-spathulate, 

 ± 1| cm. long, 6-10 mm. broad, subacute, thin, contracted below into 

 a very narrow petiolar part and then suddenly expanded into a long broad 

 striate glabrous sheath ; densely clothed below with glossy closely appressed 

 whitish tomentum except on the midrib ; above viscid and almost glabrous, 



