Buowanan.—-On a new Species of Celmisia, 497 
Male flowers terminal on the short lateral branchlets, in fascicles of 
three or sometimes more; each fascicle enclosed at its base by a cupular 
involucel, apparently formed of metamorphosed stipules ; calyx short, 
cupular, with four or fewer short blunt lobes; corolla bell-shaped, four- 
partite almost to base; stamens exserted ; the fascicles of male are often 
on twigs destitute of leaves. 
Female flowers terminal on the short lateral branches, usually solitary, 
but sometimes two or three together, with a four-lobed tubular more or less 
ciliated involucel enclosing the calyx ; calyx tubular, indistinctly four- 
lobed at the ciliated margin; corolla four-partite to base; the lobes narrow, 
oblong ; styles papillose, twice as long as the corolla lobes; drape not seen. 
Habitat: Dunedin, Water of Leith, Vauxhall, Saddle Hill, where it was 
first gathered by Mr. A. C. Purdie. 
The species belongs to the group with fascicled female flowers, and is 
very distinct and well marked in its characters. It appears to be closely 
allied to another undescribed species growing near Dunedin, and forming a 
link between it and C, rotundifolia, 
Arr. LXIII.—Deseription of a new Species of Celmisia. By J. BUCHANAN. 
Plate XVIII 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 11th January, 1879.) 
Celmisia cordatifolia, n.s. 
Leaves entire, with the petiole 6-8 inches long, 2 inches broad, obtuse or 
acute at tip, and cordate at the base, thickly covered below with rusty 
brown tomentum, glabrous and dull green above in old leaves, and in young 
leaves sprinkled with white silky hairs, which are more abundant at base 
and on midrib; petiole and petiolar sheath ribbed, covered and fringed with 
pale brown tomentum ; inner surface glabrous, purple. Scape 10-12 inches 
high, with long linear bracts, the whole covered with rusty brown 
tomentum, which often disappears on the bracts after flowering, leaving 
terminal tufts. Head 14 inches in diameter; involucral scales numerous, in 
two series, outer series with terminal tufts of rusty-brown tomentum; rays 
narrow, 3 inch long; pappus 1 inch long; achene large, glabrous. 
Collected by. Mr. A. McKay, January, 1879, on Mount Starvation, 
elson, : 
