300 COMPOSITH. [Celmisia 
C. Herbaceous. Leaves rosulate. Disc-florets purple. 
Teaves 1-4in. x 4-4in., linear, coriaceous, shining, 
glabrous a te aps ae .. 42. C. vernicosa. 
Leaves 3-5 in. x 4-2in., lanceolate, grooved and sparingly 
tomentose beneath .. a: 8 3 .. 43. C. Campbellensis. 
1. C. Walkeri, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. ix. (1877) 549, 
t. 830.—Stem stout, woody, much or sparingly branched, procum- 
bent or suberect, 1-4 ft. long; branches spreading, densely leafy. 
Leaves very numerous, crowded, with broad imbricating sheathing 
bases wider than the blade, 1-14 in. long; blade spreading, linear, 
acute, subcoriaceous, glabrous and somewhat viscid above, clothed 
with soft white tomentum beneath; margins flat, serrulate. 
Peduncles 1-3 near the tips of the branches, 4-8in. long, slender, 
glandular-pubescent ; bracts numerous, linear-subulate. Heads 
1-1$in. diam.; involucral bracts linear-subulate, pubescent and 
glandular, tips recurved. Ray-florets 30-40; ligule narrow, spread- 
ing. Achenes linear, silky, with 2-3 obscure ribs on each face.— 
Students’ Fl. 280. 
SoutH Istanp: Canterbury—Mountains above Arthur’s Pass, 7’. F. C. 
Westland—Kelly’s Hill, Petrie! Otago—Mountains near Lake Harris, Kirk! 
Mount Alta, Buchanan! Mount Aspiring, Petrie! near Mount Earnslaw, 
H. J. Matthews ! 3000-5000 ft. December-February. 
A very remarkable plant, easily recognised by the stout branching stem, 
densely clothed with imbricating leaves. Its only near ally is the following 
Species. 
2. C. rupestris, Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi. (1884) 
409.—Stems long, much-branched, stout and woody, prostrate, 
scrambling over rocks; branches ascending at the tips, densely 
clothed with closely imbricating leaves. Leaves numerous, crowded, 
3—lin. long, narrow linear-spathulate, obtuse, gradually narrowed 
to the base and then expanded into a broad membranous sheath, 
silky above, beneath clothed with soft white tomentum, suberect 
when young, patent or deflexed when old; margins strongly revolute. 
Peduncles 1 or 2 near the tips of the branches, 3-6 in. long, 
glandular-pubescent. Heads about lin. diam.; involucral bracts 
numerous, narrow-linear, pubescent and glandular. Ray-florets 
numerous, narrow, spreading. Achenes not seen.—Kirk, Students’ 
HT, Ol, 
SourH Is~tanp: Nelson—Ravines on Mount Peel, alt. 4000-5000 ft., 
Jd dg OF 
Nearest to C. Walkeri, but distinguished by the smaller size, smaller 
narrower and more silky leaves with revolute margins, and by the smaller 
heads. 
3. C. Gibbsii, Cheesem. n. sp.—Stems slender, woody, sparingly 
branched, creeping and rooting at the base, erect or ascending 
above ; branches few, short, leafy. Leaves numerous, laxly im- 
bricating, spreading or reflexed from an appressed sheathing base, 
