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SoutH Istanp: Not uncommon in alpine localities from the Wairau Valley 
southwards. 4000-6500 ft. January. 
A very distinct plant, well marked by the short and narrow erect grooved 
and viscid leaves, with glabrous sheaths, 
30. C. Monroi, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 1383.—Leaves 3-12 in. 
long, 4-2 in. broad, narrow linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, acute 
or subacute, strict, coriaceous, longitudinally grooved or plaited 
above and covered with a delicate pellicle of silvery hairs, beneath 
clothed with appressed white tomentum, often wrinkled in parallel 
lines when dry; margins recurved; sheaths short, densely clothed 
with snow-white tomentum. Scapes 1 or several, 8-16in. long, 
stout, woolly and cottony ; bracts numerous, linear. Head 1-2 in. 
diam.; involucral bracts numerous, linear-subulate, usually more 
or less woolly and cottony. Rays numerous, 3—#in. long; tube of 
corolla glabrous. Achene hispidulous.—Bot. Mag. t. 7496; Kirk, 
Students’ Fl. 288. 
SoutH Isntanp: Marlborough—Upton Downs, Awatere, Monro! Canter- 
bury— Mount Cook district, Haast, T. F. C.; Hopkins River, Haast. 
1500-4500 ft. December—January. 
The above description is based upon one of Monro’s original specimens from 
the Upton Downs, now in Mr. Petrie’s herbarium, and on others which almost 
exactly match it collected by myself in the Mount Cook district. Most of the 
specimens referred to C. Monroi in New Zealand collections are nothing more 
than small forms of O. coriacea ; but it may be distinguished from all such by 
the narrower and more rigid leaves, which are usually conspicuously furrowed 
on both surfaces, and by the smaller heads with shorter broader rays, and by 
the glabrous corolla-tube. The plant figured in the ‘‘ Botanical Magazine’’ has 
broader softer leaves than Monro’s specimen. 
31. C. Adamsii, Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. (1895) 329.— 
Leaves 6-18in. long including the sheaths, 4-lin. broad, narrow 
linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, narrowed into 
an evident petiole at the top of the sheath, membranous, glabrous 
above, beneath clothed with soft white tomentum except the 
evident midrib; margins minutely denticulate, flat or slightly re- 
curved; sheaths thin and membranous, grooved, sparingly cottony 
or almost glabrous. Scapes equalling or exceeding the leaves, 
slender, sometimes flexuose, thinly clothed with cottony tomen- 
tum; bracts short, linear. Head 1—-14in. diam.; involucral bracts 
subulate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous or cottony. Rays few, spread- 
ing. Achene glabrous.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 288. 
Var. rugulosa, Cheesem.—Shorter and stouter. eaves more coriaceous, 
wrinkled above ; sheaths more cottony. Scapes stouter, densely cottony. 
Norty Isuanp:; Auckland - Castle Rock, Coromandel, 7. F. C.; Table 
Mountain (Whakairi) and other hills between the Thames and Tairua, Adams ! 
1. F.C. Var. rugulosa: Mount Manaia and hills to the north of Whangarei 
Harbour, Kirk! T. F.C. December—January. 
