316 COMPOSITE. [ Celmtsia. 
Mount Alta, Hector and Buchanan ! Hector Mountains, Humboldt Mountains, 
Mount Tyndall, the Remarkables, Petrie! Mount Earnslaw, H. J. Matthews. 
4500-6500 ft. January-February. 
Apparently a very distinct species, at once recognised by the small densely 
imbricated linear-obovate leaves and rather large heads. 
36. C. Macmahoni, 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. (1895) 
327.—Tufted, forming small patches. Leaves numerous, crowded, 
rosulate, 1-14 in. long including the sheath, linear-oblong, acute or 
subacute, thick and coriaceous, densely clothed on both surfaces. 
with long white or buff silky hairs, 5-7-nerved beneath, margins. 
flat ; sheaths short, about as broad as the blade, glabrous above, 
with silky hairs beneath. Scapes stout, 3-5in. long, densely 
villous with long silky hairs; bracts very numerous, narrow-linear. 
Head 3-1 in. diam.; involucral bracts numerous, linear, acute or 
acuminate, outer villous, inner hispid with short brownish hairs. 
Rays short, broad. Achene hispid.—Students’ Fl. 291. 
SourH Isnanp: Marlborough — Mount Stokes, alt. 3800ft., rare, Mac- 
Mahon ! January. 
A beautiful little plant, apparently with a very restricted distribution. 
I have seen no specimens except those gathered by Mr. MacMahon. 
37. C. parva, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. (1895) 328.— 
Small, densely tufted, seldom more than 2-3in. high. Leaves 
numerous, spreading; blade 4-lin. long, }-+in. broad, linear- 
lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate or narrow-oblong, acute, narrowed 
into a rather slender petiole and then expanded into a membranous 
cottony sheath as long as the blade, subcoriaceous, glabrous and 
often reticulated above, beneath clothed with white appressed 
tomentum ; midrib usually evident; margins flat or slightly revo- 
lute, distinctly denticulate. Scape 14-3in. high, very slender, 
glabrate or slightly cottony; bracts 2-3, small, narrow-linear, 
sheathing and dilated at the base. Head 4-2 in. diam. ; involucral 
bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, scarious, often reddish at the tips, 
glabrate or the outer slightly pilose. Rays narrow. Achene hispid. 
—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 291. 
SourH Istanp: Nelson—Mountains at the source of the Heaphy River, 
Dall! December—January. 
A very curious little plant. Mr. Dall’s specimens are the only ones I have 
seen. 
838. C. sessiliflora, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 135.—Much- 
branched at the base ; each branch clothed with densely imbricating 
leaves, and forming a hard rosette 1-14in. diam., the rosettes. 
usually compacted into broad flat patches 2-3in.’ thick. Leaves 
very numerous, greenish-grey, most densely crowded, 4-1 in. long, 
about ;4, in. broad, narrow-linear or linear-subulate, obtuse or sub- 
acute, strict, rigid and coriaceous, hoary or silky on both surfaces, 
