Celmisia. | COMPOSIT. 319 
CAMPBELL ISLAND: Perseverance Harbour, rare, Chapman, Kirk ! 
The flower-heads closely resemble those of C. vernicosa, but the leaves are 
altogether different. I have only seen one poor specimen. Mr. Chapman’s 
name has one month’s priority of publication over Mr. Kirk’s. 
7. VITTADINIA, A. Rich. 
Branched perennial herbs or small undershrubs, usually woody 
at the base. Leaves alternate, entire or toothed or lobed. Heads 
rather small, solitary and terminating the branches or forming loose 
terminal corymbs. Involucre hemispherical or campanulate; bracts 
in few series, imbricate, narrow, acute; margins scarious. Recep- 
tacle pitted, without scales. Ray-florets all female, numerous, 
crowded, ligulate. Disc-florets hermaphrodite, tubular, dilated 
upwards, usually 5-lobed. Anthers obtuse at the base. Style- 
branches narrow, somewhat flattened, with subulate tips. Achenes 
usually narrow, compressed, with or without ribs. Pappus copious, 
of numerous unequal capillary bristles. 
A small genus of 8 or 10 species, found in Australia, Tasmania, New 
Caledonia, the Sandwich Islands, and extra-tropical South America. 
1. V. australis, A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 251.—A small much- 
branched herb 4—12in. high, hard and woody at the base; branches 
numerous, decumbent or suberect, usually more or less hispid- 
pubescent or glandular, rarely almost glabrous. Leaves 4-4 in. 
long, obovate-spathulate to linear-cuneate, entire or 38—5-toothed or 
-lobed at the tip, narrowed into a broad flat petiole, hispid or 
pubescent. Heads solitary on short peduncles terminating the 
branches; involucral bracts few, in 2-3 series, linear-subulate, 
acute, erect, hispid or pubescent. Ray-florets in one series, usually 
exceeding the pappus, narrow, white, spreading. Disc-florets 
narrow, slender, longer than the involucre. Achene linear, com- 
pressed, obtuse at the tip, narrowed to the base, pubescent, usually 
with 5-8 striz on each face. Pappus exceeding the achene.— 
A. Cunn. Precur. n. 441; Raoul, Choix, 45; Hook. f. Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. 136; Benth. Fl. Austral. iii. 490; Kirk, Students’ FI. 
294. Hurybiopsis australis, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 125. 
NortH anp Sour Isnanps: From the Great Barrier Island and Wha- 
ngarei southwards, but local to the north of the Hast Cape. Sea-level to 
3000 ft. November—January. 
Also found in Australia and Tasmania, where it runs into numerous 
varieties, some of which differ widely from the type, and may prove to be 
distinct species. Of these var. dissecta (Benth. Fl. Austral. iii. 491) has become 
naturalised near Nelson. It can be distinguished by the leaves being pin- 
natifid, with the segments again lobed, and by the purple ray-florets. ‘Two 
other closely allied forms (var. linearis and var. erecta, Kirk, ‘‘ Students’ Flora,”’ 
295), with linear or linear-spathulate leaves 3-14 in. long and purple rays, have 
ae themselves in the interior of Otago and elsewhere in the South 
sland. 
