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long, linear or narrow linear-spathulate or linear-obovate, obtuse, 
narrowed to the base, coriaceous, glabrous and subviscid above, 
beneath clothed with fulvous tomentum ; margins recurved. Heads 
very numerous, in terminal rounded corymbs, shortly pedicelled, 
cylindrical, 4in. long; involucral bracts few, in several series ; 
outer shorcer, pubescent or glabrate ; inner with short white 
radiating tips. Scales among the florets wanting or 1 or 2 only. 
Florets few, 5-8. Achene pubescent. Pappus-hairs few, thickened 
above.— Kirk, Students’ Fl. 316. C. leptophylla var. y, Hook. f. Fl. 
Nov. Zel. i. 133. 
Var. linearis, Kirk, l.c.— Leaves rather distant, +4 in. long, very narrow, 
narrow-linear or linear-lanceolate, clothed with white tomentum beneath. 
Florets 4-6. 
NortH anp SourH IsnANps, STEWART IsLAND: Not uncommon from 
Opotiki and Rotorua southwards. Sea-level to 3500 ft. December—Feb- 
ruary. Var. linearis: Near Dunedin, dston! H. J. Matthews! 
Very close to some forms of C. leptophuylla, and only to be distinguished by 
the more fulvous viscid tomentum, fewer florets, and by the paucity or total 
absence of the scales among the florets. 
13. CRASPEDIA, Forst. 
Perennial herbs, usually more or less silky or woolly, rarely 
almost glabrous. Leaves radical or alternate, entire. Heads homo- 
gamous and discoid, small, numerous, sessile or nearly so, crowded 
together into a dense globose or ovoid glomerule or compound 
head, which is surrounded by scarious bracts forming a general 
involucre. Involucre of the partial heads of several scarious 
hyaline bracts, without radiating tips. Receptacle small, with 
hyaline scales similar to the involucral bracts at the base of each 
fioret. Florets 3-8, all hermaphrodite, tubular with a campanu- 
late 5-toothed limb. Anthers sagittate at the base, more or less 
distinctly tailed. Style-branches almost terete, truncate at the 
tip. Achenes small, compressed, silky. Pappus-hairs in 1 series, 
plumose, free or connate at the base. 
A small genus of 5 or 6 species, confined to New Zealand, Australia, and 
Tasmania. The New Zealand species has the range of the genus. 
1. C. uniflora, Forst. Prodr. n. 306.—A very variable stout or 
slender unbranched herb 4-20 in. high, silky, cottony or woolly, or 
nearly glabrous. Leaves nearly all radical, 1-8 in. long, obovate- 
oblong to spathulate or spathulate-lanceolate, obtuse, narrowed 
into a short broad petiole, usually but not always fringed with 
white tomentum, often slightly viscid; cauline leaves smaller and 
narrower, the upper reduced to distant bracts. Compound head 
or glomerule solitary, terminal, 1-2 in. diam., globose or nearly so ; 
bracts 4-10, ovate, herbaceous with a scarious margin, shorter 
than the head. Partial heads 3-8-flowered; involucral bracts ob- 
