Kirx.— Descriptions of New Plants. 549 
Hab.: South Island: Limestone Rocks, Broken River, Canterbury. 
J. D. Enys and T. Kirk. 
Allied to L. aromaticum, Banks and Sol., from which it differs in its 
singular habit, excessively thick, glaucous leaves, connate involucre and 
broad fruit. The cauline leaves are not furnished with sheathing bases. 
Composit. 
Celmisia walkeri, n. s. 
Plate XXX. 
Stem woody, procumbent, stout, sparingly branched; branches ascending. 
Leaves crowded, linear, 1-14 inches long, acute, patent, with broad 
imbricating bases, wider than the blade, slightly coriaceous, serrulate, 
clothed beneath with snow-white appressed tomentum, margins not revolute. 
Peduncles 5-8 inches long, solitary, axillary, one to three near the tips of the 
branches; very slender, with numerous linear bracts. Head 1} inch in 
diameter. Involucral scales linear, tips recurved, glandular; ray florets 
80-40, narrow. 
Hab.: South Island: Dividing range above Lake Harris, Otago, 3,500 
to 4,000 feet. Captain J. Campbell Walker and T. Kirk. 
Stem clothed at the base with the persistent remains of dead leaves ; 
whole plant slightly viscid, peduncles and involucre glandular. 
A remarkable plant, which might with almost equal propriety be 
referred to Ulearia, with which it agrees in having the lower part of the 
stem woody, in the spreading leaves, and lateral inflorescence. The broad 
membranous leaf bases, and the slender bracteate flower-heads are essen- 
tially those of Celmisia. 
It is allied to C. ramulosa, Hook., f., from which it differs in its larger 
size, acute spreading leaves, which are never revolute, and in the long 
axillary peduncles. There can be no doubt that other species with woody 
‘stems will ultimately be discovered. 
I have named this fine plant in compliment to my friend, Captain J. 
Campbell Walker, in whose company I had the pleasure of collecting it. 
Raoulia petriensis, n. 8. 
A small, hard, densely tufted species; branches short, erect. Leaves 
loosely imbricate, ;!; inch broad, broadly spathulate, thickened at the tips, 
nerveless, clothed on the upper surface with appressed white hairs, greenish 
below ; tips of old leaves recurved. Heads deeply immersed amongst the 
uppermost leaves ; involucral scales about 20, rather stout, with mem- 
branous apex and margins; outer series linear oblong, obtuse; inner 
series linear obovate, narrow. Florets numerous. Pappus of few white 
hairs with thickened tips, finely serrulate. Achene faintly grooved, smooth. 
Hab.: South Island; Mount St. Bathans, Otago. D. M. Petrie. 
