326 XXXIX. COMPOSITAE. [Cotula. 



SOUTH Island : Nelson: Mount Captain Eange, Amuri, T. K. Canterbury: Mount Torlesse, 

 Saast ! Limestone gravel by the Thomas Eiver, T. K. Mountains above Broken River, Enys ! 

 Otago : Lake district, Hector and Buchanan! Common in the mountains, Petriel Waitaki Valley 

 and Maniototo Plains, Petrie. 1,200ft. to 3,000ft. Deo., Jan. 



Var. sericea. Leaves Jin .-fin. long, hoary, with long silky hairs; segments close-set, flat, 

 acute. Peduncle Jin.-|in. long, hoary. Heads Jin. in diameter ; involucral bracts silky, tomentose. 

 Receptacle flat. Florets as in the type, but more glandular. Mount Cardrona and Old Man Range, 

 4,000ffc. to 5,O0Dft., Petrie ! 



13. C. Featherstonii, F. Muell. ex Hook, f., Handbk. 733. Stem 

 prostrate, rather stout, branched, the entire plant downy. Leayes obovate or 

 oblong-cuneate, narrowed to the sessile base, fleshy; apex crenately 3-toothed. 

 Peduncles ^in.— 2in. long. Heads Jin.— ^in. in diameter; involuci'al bracts 

 8—14, downy, unequally 3-seriate, the outer ovate-lanceolate, the inner obtuse. 

 Receptacle hemispherical, depressed. Female florets in several rows, glandular, 

 stipitate ; corolla minute, conical, half as long as the achene ; style-arms very 

 short ; achene obovate-cylindric, streaked, glandular. Disk-florets tubular, 

 4-toothed, glandular ; stigma minutely toothed. — Leptinella Featherstonii, 

 F. Muell, Veg. Chath. Isds. 27, t. 5. 



CHATHAM Islands, H. Travers ! Cox ! 



This fine species resembles Gentipeda in habit. 



14. C. Goyeni, Petrie in Trans. N.Z.I, xviii. (1885) 295. Stem with 

 leaves Jin. in diameter, creeping and rooting, much branched. Branches short, 

 ascending at the tips. Leaves imbricating, glabrous glabrate or almost woolly, 

 broadly oblong, -gin.--|in. long, sessile by _a broad sheathing membranous base, 

 the blade above pectinately divided into 5—7 very narrow linear acute segments. 

 Heads about Jin. in diameter, on short terminal woolly peduncles as long as the 

 head ; involucral bracts in 2 series, oblong-ovate, membranous, with scarious 

 purple margins. Receptacle conical. Female florets 4—6 ; corolla broadly 

 oblong or nearly ovate, compressed ; mouth minutely 4-toothed ; stigma minute, 

 rounded or shortly bifid, with flattened arms ; achene (immature) apparently 

 oblong. Male florets tubular below, funnel-shaped above, 4-lobed. 



Var. pinnatlseota. Leaves silky, tomentose, pinnatisect. 



SOUTH Island : Otago : Mount Pisa, Hector Mountains, and Old Man Range, Petrie ! 

 5,000ft. to 6,000ft. Feb., March. 



A remarkable species, with leaves resembling those of Azorella Selago, but more deeply 

 pectinate. 



15. C. linearifolia, Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z.I, xv. (1883) 299. Stem 

 branched, prostrate, ascending at the tip. Leaves gland-dotted, fleshy, aromatic, 

 narrow-linear or linear-spathulate, ^in.-l^in. long, obtuse, entire, narrowed 

 into the short sheathing petioles. Scape slender, erect, minutely pilose, 2in.— 4in. 

 long, with 4—8 minute bracts. Heads unisexual, Jin.— ^iu. in diameter; 

 involucral bracts in 3 rows, liuear-oblong, obtuse, herbaceous, with scarious 

 margins. Receptacle convex. Florets with rounded transparent glands. Female 

 corolla slightly tetragonous, swollen at the base, thick and fleshy, narrowed 



