Celmisia. | COMPOSITA, 309 
tomentum ; bracts 4-6, linear or linear-spathulate. Heads about 
in. diam. ; involucral bracts numerous, linear or linear-lanceolate, 
acute, scarious, shining, sparingly cottony or almost glabrate. Rays 
numerous, spreading. Achene glabrous. 
SourH Istanp: Nelson—Mount Rochfort, Mount Frederic, and other lo- 
calities near Westport, Townson ! 2000-3000 ft. January—March. 
A puzzling plant, which seems nearer to C. spectabilis than to any other 
species, although very different in appearance. In some respects it approaches 
C. parva, which, however, is a much smaller and more slender plant, with an 
almost filiform and nearly glabrous scape, and with much smaller heads and 
hispid achenes. 
22. C. verbascifolia, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 121.—A large 
handsome species. Root stout, as thick as the thumb. Leaves 
8-20 in. long or more including the petiole, 14~3in. broad, lanceo- 
late to oblong-lanceolate or spathulate-lanceolate, acute, narrowed 
into the petiole, coriaceous, glabrous or slightly cottony above but 
with woolly margins, beneath clothed with soft white or buff to- 
mentum, entire or very obscurely serrulate; petiole as long as the 
blade, narrow, broader and sheathing at the base, grooved, densely 
woolly or almost glabrous. Scapes longer than the leaves, densely 
woolly; bracts numerous, linear or linear-spathulate, tomentose, 
the lowest sometimes 4in. long. Heads about 4in. diam.; in- 
volucral bracts narrow-linear, densely and softly woolly. Ray- 
florets slender; tube of corolla of disc-florets thickened below. 
Achene linear, glabrous, hardly equalling the pappus. — Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. 1382; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 285. 
SoutH Is~tanp: Otago— Milford Sound and Port Preservation, Lyall 
(Handbook) ; Waitaki Valley, Horse Ranges, Flag Swamp, Macrae’s, Petrie ! 
Kirk ! Sea-level to 2000 ft. December—February. 
I have seen no specimens from the localities where the species was originally 
discovered by Lyall, and it is quite possible that the plant from the Waitaki 
Valley, &c., on which the above description is founded, may not be the same. 
It has been reported from Campbell Island, but I think erroneously. 
23. C. Brownii, F. &. Chapm. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii. (1890) 
444.—lLeaves 6-10in. long including the petiole, 1-2in. broad, 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowed into the 
petiole, coriaceous, quite entire or very obscurely denticulate, 
glabrous or sparingly pubescent above, beneath clothed with rather 
thin white or greyish-white tomentum; petiole shorter than the 
blade, tomentose. Scapes 6-14 in. long or more, tomentose; bracts 
linear, obtuse, almost villous. Heads 1-2in. diam.; involucral 
bracts linear-subulate, villous towards the tips. Rays numerous, 
narrow, spreading. Achene sparingly silky. — Kirk, Students’ Fl. 
286. 
Souru Isuanp : Otago—Mystery Pass, between Lake Manapouri and Smith 
Sound, Chapman ; Clinton Valley, Lake Te Anau, Petrie ! 
