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XXXIX. COMPOSITE. 
[ Celmisia . 
Northern Island : Mount Hikuraugi and Ruahine range, Colenso. Middle Island : 
Upper Wairau, Sinclair ; top of Gordon’s Nob and Macrae’s Run, alt. 4-5000 ft., Munro ; 
Otago, lake district, Hector and Buchanan. Generally a very distinct species, at once dis- 
tinguished by the size, soft, loose, snow-white tomentum, and very coriaceous serrate leaves, 
but I fear it may pass into C. discolor. 
7. C. Lindsayi, Ilook.f., n. sp. Rhizome creeping, as thick as a quill, 
clothed with coriaceous, glabrous, short leaf-sheatlis. Leaves 2-2 f in. long, 
f in. broad, linear-oblong, subacute, with a few small serratures, snow- 
white below with appressed shining tomentum, midrib black, cottony towards 
the short sheath, opaque and glabrous above. Scape slender, flexuous, 
nearly glabrous. Head 1 f in. diam. ; involucral scales subulate, imbricate, 
glabrous, short ; rays patent, few, distant, not recurved, f in- l° n g 1 tube 
of corolla much thickened, rigid ; pappus red, f in. long. Achene silky. 
Middle Island : Otago, Trap Cliffs at Shaw’s Bay, the Nuggets, mouth of the Clntha 
river, Lindsay. A very distinct species, remarkable for the slender, flexuous, glabrous 
scape, small imbricate involucre, few straight distant rays, and much thickened, rigid corolla- 
tubes. 
8. C. Sinclairii, HooJc.f., n. sp. Rhizome long, as thick as a quill. 
Leaves 1^—2 in. long, f-f in. broad, linear-oblong or obovate-spathulate, 
obtuse or acute, obscurely toothed, glabrous on both sides, or white below, 
membranous, contracted into membranous, glabrous or hoary sheaths 1 in. 
long. Scape slender, nearly glabrous. Head 1-1 f in. diam. ; involucral 
scales subidate, squnrrose, recurved, pilose ; rays numerous, -3 in. long; pappus 
whitish, i in. Achene silky. 
Middle Island : Dun mountains, Sinclair (leaves white below) ; Tamdale, Sinclair 
(leaves glabrous on both surfaces). Leaves more membranous than usual in the genus. I 
have only three specimens. 
9. C. verbascifolia, Hoolc.f. Fl.N. Z. i. 121. Yeiy large. Root thicker 
than the thumb, spindle-shaped. Leaves oblong or lanceolate, narrowed into 
very broad, purple, glabrous, sheathing petioles, with woolly edges, 4-8 in. 
long, If -3 broad, coriaceous, scarcely crenulate, opaque, glabrous above, below 
thickly clothed with pale, buff, loose, soft, thick tomentum ; veins diverging. 
Scapes as long as the leaves, and heads densely woolly ; bracts long, linear. 
Head 2 in. diam. ; involucral scales erect, linear- subulate ; tube of corolla 
much thickened below ; rays very slender, {■ in. long ; pappus f in. long. 
Achene glabrous, ripe not seen. 
Middle Island : Milford Sound and Tort Preservation, Lyall. A splendid species. 
10. C. coriacea, Hook. f. FI. N. Z. i. 121. Leaves 10-18 in. long, 
f- 2f broad, lanceolate, coriaceous, narrowed into broad woolly sheaths, co- 
vered above with a silvery pellicle of matted cottony hairs, below with dense 
white silvery tomentum. Scapes very stout, very cobwebby and cottony, 
with many linear bracts. Head lf-3 in. diam. ; involucral scales very nu- 
merous, linear-subulate, cottony or glabrous ; rays excessively numerous, 
If in. long ; tube of corolla pubescent. Achene linear, compressed, f in. 
long, pilose. — Aster coriaceus, Forst. 
Middle Island : abundant in the mountains, from Nelson to Dusky Bay, Forster, etc. 
Not hitherto found in the Northern Island, the plant alluded to in the FI. N. Z., as from the 
