Celmisia.] COMPOSIT. 305 
Var. petiolata, Kirk, l.c.—Smaller in all its parts. Leaves with an oblong 
blade suddenly narrowed into a distinct petiole at the top of the expanded 
sheath, often quite glabrous above, the tomentum of the under-surface more 
silvery and appressed. Heads smaller, $-$in. diam. 
Nort Istanp: Summit of Moehau (Cape Colville), ddams! Mount Hiku- 
rangi, Colenso, Adams and Petrie! Ruahine Mountains, Colenso! Tararua 
Mountains, Buchanan. SourH IstAND: Not uncommon on the mountains as 
far south as Canterbury and the west of Otago. 2500-5000 ft. December-— 
January. 
The typical state, with large broad plaited leaves clothed on both surfaces 
with snow-white tomentum, has a very distinct appearance; but small forms, 
with smaller and narrower leaves almost glabrous above, are difficult to separate 
from C. discolor. 
13. C. Haastii, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 131.—Forming large 
patches. Rhizome creeping, putting up short erect branches. 
Leaves greenish-grey, 14-3 in. long, 4-1 in. wide, broadly oblong to 
oblong-spathulate or narrow obovate-spathulate, obtuse or acute, 
narrowed towards the base, subcoriaceous, glabrous and usually 
longitudinally plaited above, beneath clothed with thin whitish 
tomentum; margins recurved, minutely denticulate; sheaths 4-4 
as long as the blade, thin, membranous, glabrous. Scapes usually 
several, 2-6in. long, stout, densely tomentose or almost glabrous ; 
bracts many, linear, acute or rarely obtuse, tomentose. Heads 
1-14 in. diam.; involucral bracts linear, acute or acuminate, mem- 
branous, softly tomentose or almost villous. Rays spreading. 
Achene linear, glabrous, longer than the pappus.—Kirk, Students’ 
Fil. 284. 
SoutH Jsnanp : Not uncommon in the central and western portions of the 
Southern Alps, from the Spencer Mountains southwards. 3000-6000 ft. 
December—February. 
Well marked by the greenish-grey foliage, stout usually tomentose scapes 
with numerous linear bracts, membranous involucral bracts, and glabrous 
achene. 
14. C. Lindsayi, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 132.—Often forming 
large rounded masses. Stems stout, woody, prostrate; branches 
numerous, decumbent or suberect. Leaves numerous, crowded, 
8-8 in. long, 4-lin. broad, linear-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or 
subacute, coriaceous, obscurely and remotely denticulate or quite 
entire, glabrous above, clothed with appressed white tomentum 
beneath, midrib evident; sheaths broad, glabrous, deeply grooved. 
Scapes usually numerous, 2—8in. long, slender, flexuous, glabrous 
or pubescent above; bracts linear. Heads 1-2in. diam. ; invo- 
lucral bracts linear, acuminate, glabrate or pubescent. Ray-florets 
30-40, spreading, rather distant. Tube of the disc-florets some- 
what thickened; anther-cells obtuse at the base. Achene linear, 
silky. — Lindsay, Contrib. N.Z. Bot. 53, t. 38, f. 1; Bot. Mag. 
t. 7134; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 284. Hrigeron Bonplandii, Buch. in 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. (1887) 213. 
