Celmisia.] COMPOSITA. 301 
4-3in. long, »,—}in. broad, linear-lanceolate, tapering from the 
base to a rather obtuse or subacute tip, coriaceous, somewhat 
rigid, green or glabrous above, beneath and on the sheaths 
sparsely covered with minute white lepidote scales; margins 
thick, revolute; midrib impressed above, much thickened and 
flattened beneath. Peduncles near the ends of the branches, 
solitary or more rarely 2 or 3, 14-24in. long, slender, sparsely 
glandular-lepidote ; bracts 8-10, small, erect, linear-oblong, obtuse. 
Heads 3in. diam.; involucral bracts linear-oblong, acute, more or 
less clothed with white glandular scales, inner with a tuft of 
cottony hairs at the tip. Ray-florets numerous, spreading. 
Achenes grooved, hispid. 
SourH Istanp: Nelson—Mount Cobb (to the north of the Mount Arthur 
Plateau), #. G. Gibbs ! 
An interesting novelty, quite distinct from the other species of the sec- 
tion, and remarkable for the lepidote pubescence on the under-surface of the 
leaves, &c. 
4. C. ramulosa, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 733.—Stems woody, 
procumbent, branched, 2-8in. long; branches short, ascending or 
almost erect. Leaves numerous, densely imbricating, +4 in. long, 
linear-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, with broad membranous sheathing 
bases, glabrous above, clothed with soft white tomentum beneath ; 
margins strongly revolute. Peduncles 1 or rarely 2 at the tips of 
the branches, short, slender, $-14in. long, glandular - tomentose ; 
bracts 1-3, small, narrow-linear. Heads #-1in. diam.; involucral 
bracts linear-oblong, acute, glandular-pubescent. Rays spreading, 
narrow. Ripe achenes not seen.—Kzirk, Students’ Fl. 281. 
SourH Istanp: Otago—Mount Pisa, Petrie! Mount Cardrona, Goyen ; 
Mount Bonpland, H. J. Matthews! mountains above Dusky Sound, Hector 
and Buchanan! Reischek! mountains near Lake Hauroto, G. M. Thomson ! 
3000-6000 ft. January. 
A very distinct little plant, much smaller than the preceding, and with 
smaller appressed leaves which are white and cottony beneath, and show no 
signs of the peculiar lepidote scales of C. Gibbsit. 
5. C. lateralis, Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. iv. (1872) 226, 
t. 15.—Stems 3-12 in. long or more, slender, procumbent, woody at 
the base, much and closely branched, often forming compact 
patches ; branches crowded, ascending or suberect. Leaves very 
numerous, densely crowded, spreading at the base but usually 
incurved at the tips, 1-4 in. long, linear-subulate, acute or apiculate, 
flat above but slightly convex beneath, green on both surfaces, 
glabrous or glandular-ciliate at the margins and apex, base with a 
short and broad membranous slightly cottony sheath. Peduncles 
slender, 2-3 in. long, often numerous, terminal and lateral, glandular- 
pubescent or cottony ; bracts linear-subulate. Heads 4-3 in. diam. ; 
