Celmisia. | COMPOSITA. 307 
acute, cordate at the base, coriaceous, entire, dull-green and glab- 
rous above, plaited, beneath clothed with velvety ferruginous 
tomentum ; petiole grooved, expanded into a broad sheath at the 
base, villous with brownish tomentum or almost glabrous, some- 
times purplish. Scape 6-12in. long, stout, clothed with ferru- 
ginous tomentum ; bracts numerous, linear. Heads 14~2 in. diam.; 
involucral bracts numerous, villous or almost glabrous. Rays 
narrow, ‘Zin. long. Achene linear, glabrous, strongly ribbed, ex- 
ceeding the pappus.—C. petiolata var. cordatifolia, Kirk, Students’ 
Fi. 286. 
SourH Istanp: Nelson—Mount Starveall, A. McKay! Bryant! Mount 
Duppa, Mount Richmond, MacMahon ! January. 
In the ‘‘ Students’ Flora” Mr. Kirk has reduced this to C. petiolata, but it 
differs from all the forms of that species in the broader coriaceous leaves cordate 
at the base, and in the dark ferruginous tomentum. In the texture of the 
leaves and their tomentum it approaches C. Traversii, but differs entirely in the 
cordate leaf-base, and in the petioles wanting the snow-white tomentum which 
is so characteristic a feature of that plant. 
18. C. petiolata, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 184.— Leaves 
4-14in. long including the petiole, 3-2in. wide; blade about half 
the length, oblong to linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, subacute, 
membranous or coriaceous, entire, glabrous or silky above, beneath 
clothed with whitish appressed tomentum ; midrib usually glabrous, 
purple, veins diverging; petiole purplish, grooved, more or less 
loosely tomentose, expanded at the base intoa short sheath. Scapes 
usually several, 6-18 in. long, often purplish, tomentose or villous ; 
bracts linear. Heads 14-24in. diam.; involucral bracts linear- 
subulate, usually densely tomentose. Ray-florets numerous, with 
a ligule $in. long. Achene glabrous or nearly so, strongly 
ribbed.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 286. 
Var. rigida, Kirk, l.c.—Leaves oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, coria- 
ceous, rigid, tomentum of under-surface white or ferruginous. Head rather 
larger, the rays sometimes 1 in. long. 
Var. membranacea, Kirk, l.c.— Leaves narrowed at both ends, acute, 
membranous, glabrous on both surfaces or nearly so. Scape glabrate or pubes- 
cent. Heads rather smaller, involucral bracts glabrate. 
Souru Istranp: Not uncommon in the central and western portions of the 
Southern Alps, from Lake Tennyson southwards to the west of Otago. Var. 
rigida: Stewart Island, Kirk! Var. membranacea: Clarence and Waiau 
Valleys, Travers! Kirk! Lyell Mountains, Townson ! 2000-4500 ft. De- 
ember-January. 
Best distinguished by the almost membranous narrow-oblong leaves, with 
purple midribs and long and slender purple petioles. 
19. C. Rutlandii, 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. (1895) 
329.—Leaves 3-12in. long including the petiole, 1-24in. broad, 
oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute or apiculate, narrowed into the 
petiole, coriaceous, glabrous above or the midrib slightly cottony, 
