290 XXSIX. COMPOSITAE. [Celmisia. 



radiating, lin.— 5iii. long, ^in.— ^in. broad, narrow-linear, acute, not pungent, 

 margins strongly recurved, longitudinally furrowed, and clothed with a shining 

 pellicle of fine matted hairs above, beneath with lax short whitish tomentum 

 except the stout midrib ; sheaths one-third to half the length of the leaves and 

 rather broader, flat, membranous, grooved, clothed with shining silky tomentum 

 on the outer surface. Scapes 1 or several, lin.— lOin. high, silky or tomentose, 

 glistening ; bracts few or many, subulate-acuminate, springing from a dilated 

 sheathing-base. Heads lin. in diameter; involucral bracts lanceolate-acumi- 

 nate, with a distinct midrib, the outer cottony and recurved, the inner glabrate 

 or glabrous. Rays numerous, short. Achene pubescent. 



SOUTH Island: Canterbury, J. B. Armstrong. Otago : Maungatua, Petrie ! STEWART 

 Island : summit of Mount Anglem ; Rakiahua ; Taylor's Lookout ; T. K. Fraser Peaks, Petrie 

 and Thomson ! 600ft. to 3,5000ft. Dec, Jan. 



Allied to C. longifolia, but distinguished from all forms of that species by the acute shining 

 rigid leaves, the recurved margins of which usually hide the stout midrib. 



28. C. Lyallii, Hook. /., Handbk. 133. A strong tufted plant, with 

 radiating slightly-curved ensiform leaves, 9in.— 18in. long, Jin.— Jin. broad at the 

 base, tapering to the acute but not pungent apex, rigidly coriaceous, finely 

 grooved above or on both surfaces, white beneath with thinly-appressed tomen- 

 tum ; sheath a quarter the length of the blade and broader, clothed with snow- 

 white wool. Scape lOin.— 20in. high, rather slender, white with dense lax 

 tomentum ; bracts numerous on the upper part of the scape, linear, tomen- 

 tose. Head 1 Jin.— 2in. in diameter ; involucral bracts very numerous, subulate- 

 acuminate, the outer recurved, glabrate or more or less cottony. Rays rather 

 short. Achene silky. 



SOUTH Island : from Cook Strait to Poveaux Strait. Common in mountain districts. 

 l,000ffc. to 4,500ft. Blunt-leaved Spaniard. Dec, Jan. 



29. C. Armstrongii, Petrie in Trans. N.Z.I, xxvi. (1893) 269. A strong 

 tufted species, with radiating straight ensiform leaves 6in.— 18in. long, Jin. -Jin. 

 broad or more, rigidly coriaceous, acute, tapering towards the apex, slightly 

 narrowed just above the sheath, margins not recurved when fresh, serrulate 

 above, upper surface clothed with a silvery pellicle, lower with satiny appressed 

 tomentum ; midrib very stout, with several parallel longitudinal veins on each 

 side; sheaths rather broad, the length of the blade, clothed with snow-white 

 cottony tomentum on both surfaces. Scapes shorter or longer than the leaves, 

 tomentose; bracts linear. Head lin.-ljin. in diameter; involucral bracts 

 subulate-acuminate, the outer recurved, glabrous or cottony at the margins. 

 Rays very narrow. Achenes glabrous. — C. gladiata, T. Kirk MS. 



SOUTH Island : Nelson : Heaphy River, Ball! Canterbury: Arthur's Pass, Enys and Kirk 

 (1876). Westland : Kelly's Hill, Petrie and Cockayne (1893) ! 3,0001t. to 4,000ft. Jan. 



Nearly related to C. Lyallii, but easily distinguished by the perfectly straight leaves Vfith 

 stout midribs and silvery undersurfaoe. The stems with the "short sheaths are sometimes 3in. in 

 diameter. 



30. C. Viscosa, Hook. /., Handbk. 133. Viscid in all its parts. Stem 

 sparingly branched. Branches very short, stout, with leaf-sheaths lin.-ljin. in 



