308 COMPOSITE. [Celmisia. 
beneath clothed with appressed white satiny tomentum; margins 
entire or minutely denticulate, often revolute ; petiole shorter than 
the blade or equalling it, broad, grooved, densely clothed with 
loose snow-white tomentum. Scapes several, exceeding the leaves, 
softly cottony; bracts narrow-linear, purplish, tomentose. Heads 
1-12 in. diam. ; involucral bracts linear, acuminate, erect, glabrate 
or the outer cottony. Ray-florets numerous. Achenes silky, 
strongly grooved.—Students’ Fl. 286. 
SourH Istanp: Marlborough—Mount Stokes, Kirk ! MacMahon! De- 
cember—January. 
A handsome and distinct species, allied to C. petiolata, but differing in the 
loose snow-white tomentum of the sheaths, the satiny under-surface of the 
leaves, and the thin erect almost glabrous involucral bracts. 
20. C. spectabilis, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 35.—Often forming 
large patches. Stems stout, with the leaf-sheaths 1-2 in. diam. 
Leaves very numerous, crowded, rosulate; blade 3-6in. long, 
1-in. broad, narrow linear-oblong, acute or obtuse, slightly nar- 
rowed towards the base, very thick and coriaceous, glabrous or 
with a thin pellicle of silvery hairs above, longitudinally furrowed, 
beneath clothed with densely matted pale- buff or white woolly 
tomentum; margins recurved, entire or minutely serrulate ; sheaths 
usually equalling the blade, membranous, clothed on both surfaces 
with loose soft and silky snow-white tomentum. Scapes 1 or 
several, stout, much longer than the leaves, densely cottony ; 
bracts numerous, linear. Heads about 14dia. diam.; involucral 
bracts narrow linear-subulate, woolly or rarely almost glabrate, 
outer recurved at the tips. Rays numerous, rather short. Achene 
glabrous.—Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 122, t. 83; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 134; Kirk, 
Students’ Fl. 287. C. ruahinensis, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. 
(1895) 388. C. mollis, Cockayne, l.c. xxxi. (1899) 428. 
NortH Is~tanp: Mountains of the interior, from Mount Hikurangi and 
Lake Taupo southwards. Souru Isuanp: Abundant in mountain districts in 
Nelson, Canterbury, and Westland ; rare in Otago. 500-4500 ft. Puhaere- 
tatko. December-February. 
Well marked by the short narrow rigid leaves, densely clothed beneath 
with pale-buff soft and matted not appressed woolly tomentum. Mr. Cockayne’s 
C. mollis is a state with the tomentum not nearly so woolly, the hairs being 
straighter and more silky. 
21. C. dubia, Cheesem. n. sp.—Forming large patches. Stems 
rather stout, ++in. diam. with the leaves on. Leaves 14-3in. 
long, 4-2 in. broad ; blade oblong or linear-oblong or lanceolate, 
acute i both ends, coriaceous, glabrous and furrowed above, 
clothed with soft white tomentum beneath, midrib distinct be- 
neath ; margins usually recurved, entire or very obscurely serru- 
late ; petiole equalling the blade or shorter than it, slender, ex- 
panded below into a broad membranous sheath. Scapes 1 or 
more, 8-8in. long, rather slender, white with loose cottony 
