296 COMPOSITE. [Pleurophyllum. 
beneath, above setose with moniliform hairs intermixed; principal 
nerves 8-16, parallel, but following the outline of the leaf; margins 
remotely and minutely spinulose-serrate. Cauline-leaves smaller 
and narrower, sessile, clothed with thin white tomentum on both 
surfaces. Flowering-stem stout, 2-6 ft. high ; raceme of 15-30 heads 
or more. Heads subglobose, discoid, 1-14in. diam., purple; in- 
volucral bracts ovate-lanceolate, margins ciliate. Ray-florets with 
a very short and inconspicuous 2-3-fid ligule. Achenes silky- 
strigose. Pappus-hairs slightly thickened at the tips.—Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. 129; Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxiii. (1891) 434. 
P. Hombronii, Dene. in Voy. Astrol. et Zél. 36.  Albinea ori- 
segenesa, Homb. ¢ Jacq. Voy. Astrol. et Zél. 37, t. 4. 
AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL ISLANDS, ANTIPODES IsLAND: Abundant from 
sea-level to over 1000 ft. December—January. 
Separated from the preceding by the petiolate leaves and subglobose discoid 
heads. Kirk has pointed out that the plate in the ‘‘ Flora Antarctica,’ excellent 
in most respects, is faulty in the leaf figured not being that of the present 
species, but of P. speciosum. 
3. P. Hookeri, Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi. (1884) 395 
(excl. t. 37).— Leaves all radical, 6-12 in. long, 3-4in. broad, obovate 
or oblong-obovate, acute or acuminate, narrowed into a short broad 
petiole, coriaceous, clothed on both surfaces with rather loose white 
and silvery tomentum; principal nerves 8-12, slender; margins 
entire or minutely denticulate. Flowering-stems 1-3, 14-2 ft. high, 
strict, silky-tomentose, naked below excepting for 1-3 narrow-linear 
bracts ; raceme of 12-24 heads. Heads subglobose, discoid, #in. 
diam.; involucral bracts narrow -linear, acuminate. Ray- florets 
few, with a very short and inconspicuous 2-lobed ligule. Achene 
silky. Pappus-hairs hardly thickened above.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 
278. P. Hookerianum, Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxiii. (1891) 435. 
P. Gilliesianum, Kirk in Rep. Austral. Assoc. (1891) 220. 
AUCKLAND Is~tanps: Kirk! CaMPBELL Is~tAND : Buchanan! Kirk! Mac- 
QUARIE IsLAND: Scott, Hamilton! 500-1000 ft. December—January. 
Closely allied to the preceding, but sufficiently distinct in the smaller size, 
leaves silvery-tomentose on both surfaces, rigid scapes, and smaller heads, 
6. CELMISIA, Cass. 
Perennial herbs, usually tufted or with a short creeping rhizome, 
rarely with a procumbent or suberect branched stem. Leaves all 
radical and rosulate, or cauline and densely imbricated, narrowed 
into a sheathing base, usually clothed beneath with appressed 
white or buff tomentum. Scapes or peduncles long or short, rarely 
almost wanting, bracteate. Heads large, solitary, radiate. In- 
volucre broadly hemispherical ; bracts imbricated in several or many 
series, narrow, pubescent or cottony or glandular. Receptacle flat 
or convex, pitted. Ray-florets female, in a single row, ligulate ; 
