130 xxxix. composite. [ Celmisia . 
Leaves £-2| x 5-3 in., suhserrate, linear or spathulate, coriaceous, 
white below 3. C. discolor. 
Leaves 11-2x1-1 in., crenate-serrate, obovate-oblong, buff below. 
Achene silky 4. C. hieracifolia. 
Leaves 1-2 x 3-2 in., obovate-oblong or spathulate, white below, mar- 
gins recurved. Bracts many. Achene glabrous 5. C. Haastii. 
Leaves 1-2 x i~i in., serrulate, coriaceous, obovate, with white, soft 
tomentum below 6 . C. incana. 
Leaves 2-21 x 1 in., scarcely serrate, linear-oblong. Rays distant, 
corolla-tube rigid 7 ■ C. lindsayi. 
Leaves 1 i— 2 x 5 -§ in., scarcely serrate, oblong or spathulate, mem- 
branous 8 . C. Sinclairii. 
B. Leaves 3-1S x |-3 in., quite entire ( obscurely toothed or rough in C. verbascifolia, spec- 
tabilis, and petiolata), silvery silky or woolly below [glabrate in C. Mackaui). 
Leaves 4-8 x 1-3 in., oblong or lanceolate, not silvery below. Achene 
glabrous 9. C. verbascifolia. 
Leaves 10-18 x 1-21 in., lanceolate, silky below. Achene pilose . . 10. C. coriacea. 
Leaves 10 x 11 in., narrow lanceolate, glabrate on both sides . . . 11. C. Mackaui. 
Leaves 3-5 x J-§ in., linear, silvery above, shining below . . . .12 . C. Munroi. 
Leaves 8-18 x l-j in., ensiform, even and glabrous above, silvery below 13. C. Lyallii. 
Leaves 3x1 in., linear, obtuse, viscons above, grooved below . . .14. C. viscosa. 
Leaves 6-12 x |-lf in., linear-oblong, with long purple sheaths . . 15. C. petiolata. 
Leaves 4-6 x 1-1 in., linear-lanceolate, with opaque, thick, huff, 
loose toinentum below 16. C. spectabi/is. 
Leaves 9x11 in., oblong, and scape and head, with dense velvety, rusty 
tomentum below 17. C. Traversii. 
C. Leaves 1-12 x ^-5 in., very narrovi-linear or linear-oblong, white below, or on 
both sides. 
Leaves 2-18 x T U-y in., narrow, margins recurved, cottony and silvery 18. C. longifolia. 
Leaves 1-1 x T V in., acerose, pungent, silvery 19. C. laricifolia. 
Leaves x f~ 4 iu., linear-spathulate, silky on both sides .... 20. C. Eectori. 
Leaves 1-f x T y in., shortly silky on both sides. Head sessile . . 21. C. sessilijlora. 
D. Leaves perfectly glabrous on both surfaces, or with minute glandular pubescence only. 
( 1 See 8 , Sinclairii, in A, and 11, Mackaui, in B.) 
Leaves i x 1 in., ohtuse, green, quite entire 22. C. bel/idioides. 
Leaves f-1 xj in., spathulate, acute, serrate 23. C. glandulosa. 
Leaves 1-4 x^- 1 in., linear, curved, coriaceous, shining 24. C. vernicosa. 
1. C. holosericea. Hook. f. FI. N. Z. i. 121. t. 31. Leaves 6-9 in. 
long, 1^-2 broad,, flat, leathery, lanceolate, acute, acutely serrate, quite gla- 
brous above, with fine, nearly parallel veins, covered below with a thin layer of 
white appressed tomentum, except the midrib ; petiolar part broadly sheath- 
ing, 1 in. long and broad, furrowed, quite glabrous, shining, margins mem- 
branous.- Scape 1-ly ft. long, slender, glabrous, with linear bracts 1 in. 
long. Head 2-3 \ in. broad ; involucral scales in many series, subulate, outer- 
most leafy, the rest glabrous or viscid, with recurved tips ; florets glabrous ; 
ray narrow, f-1 in. long; pappus i in. long, as long as the pilose achene. — 
Aster holoser iceus, Forst. 
Middle Islaud : Dusky Bay, Forster; Port Preservation, Lyall. A magnificent plant. 
2. C. densiflora, IIooJc. /., n. sp. Leaves 3-6 in. long, f-li broad, 
narrow linear-oblong, obtuse, flat, leathery, crenate-dentate, quite glabrous 
but viscid above, below covered (except the midrib) with appressed white 
