316 XXXIX. COMPOSITAB. [Craspedia. 



narrow, turbinate; ipvolucral bracts narrow, the outer ovate-oblong, pubescent, 



the inner oblong, glabrous, membranous, with short radiating tips. Florets 5. 



Scales of receptacle few or 0. 



NOETH Island : cliffs near the North Cape ; abundant ; Cheeseman I 



Near to C. VauvilUersii, but distinguished by the smaller leaves, the narrow heads, and fewer 

 florets. 



6. C. fulvida, Hook. /., Handbk. 145. Erect, 2ft.-5ft. high, much 

 branched, rather slender, glutinous. Branches clothed with subviscid tomentum. 

 Leaves Jin.— Jin. long, spreading or ascending, sessile, linear or narrow linear- 

 spathulate or linear-obovate, obtuse, margins slightly recurved, clothed with 

 fulvous tomentum, glutinous above, midrib obvious below. Heads very nume- 

 rous, Jin.— Jin. long, in terminal simple or compound corymbs, cylindric or 

 oblong ; involucres cylindric, pubescent or glabrate. Florets 6—10. Scales 

 among the florets few or 0. — C. leptophylla y, Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 133. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : from the East Gape to Foveaux Strait. STEWART Island. 

 Sea-level to 3,500£t. Deo. to Feb. 



Var. linearis. Leaves Jin.-Jin. long, distant, very narrow, linear-lanoeolate or spathulate- 

 lanoeolate, obtuse, clothed with white tomentum beneath, flat. Florets 4-6. Dunedin, Aston ! 



Distinguished from C. retorta and C. leptophylla by the fulvous or yellowish tomentum and the 

 paucity or absence of scales amongst the florets. 



14. CRASPEDIA, E. Br. 



Flower-heads in clusters of 3—8, very numerous, forming a dense globose 

 or ovoid compound head, subtended by a common involucre consisting of several 

 bracts. Heads narrow; involucral bracts linear, hyaline, membranous. Recep- 

 tacle very narrow. Florets 5—8, hermaphrodite, tubular, 5-toothed, with scales 

 intermixed. Anthers tailed. Style-branches terete, truncate, included. Achene 

 narrow, silky. Pappus-hairs in 1 row, plumose. Perennial erect simple leafv 

 herbs, glabrous silky or woolly. 



A small genus of about 5 species, restricted to Australia and New Zealand. 



Name, from the Greek, sigaifying a fringe, in reference to the white margins of the leaves. 



1. C. uniflora, G. Forst., Prod. n. 306. A perennial herb, 4in.-20in. 

 high, glabrate cottony or excessively woolly in all its parts. Rootstock simple 

 or tufted. Leaves mostly radical, lin.-8in. long, orbicular-obovate or obovate, 

 abruptly narrowed into a short broad petiole, usually fringed with white 

 tomentum ; cauline leaves narrow, the upper reduced to short distant bracts, 

 ovate to linear-oblong. The compound head 4-in.-2in. in diameter, globose or 

 often disciform ; outer bracts herbaceous, ovate, with a broad scarious margin. 

 Receptacle globular, rarely ovoid. Partial heads 3-8-flowered ; involucral bracts 

 in 1 series, free, hyaline, linear-oblong or broadly oblong, shorter than the 

 florets. Achene compressed, silky. Pappus -hairs as long as the florets, 

 plumose. — A. Cunn., Precurs. n. 416; Willd., Sp. PI. iii. .'2.392; A. Rich., 

 Fl. Nouv.-Zel. 215. C. Richea, Cass, in Diet. Sc. Nat. .\i. 353; Benth., Fl. 



