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Ruahine range, proves to have been found in the Middle Island. “Leather plant ” of colo- 
nists. A magnificent species, which Mueller appears to have found in the Australian alps, 
but his specimens not being in flower, I cannot well determine the point. 
11. C. Mackaui, Raoul, Choix, xix. 1. 18 ; — FI. N. Z. i. 122. Altogether 
similar to C. coriacea, but the mature leaves are glabrate on both sides, rather 
glaucous belotv, sparingly cottony at the base only ; the scape and involucre 
also glabrate, the achene quite glabrous, and the tube of the corolla thick- 
ened at the base as in C. verbascifolia. 
Middle Island : rocky places at Akaroa, Raoul. 
12. C. Munroi, Hook. /., n. sp. Leaves 3-5 in. long, broad, 
narrow linear-oblong, strict, subacute, very coriaceous, with a silvery pellicle 
of matted cottony hairs above, below with dense white silvery tomentum, 
wrinkled in parallel lines when dry ; margins slightly recurved ; sheaths 
densely woolly and snow-white. Scape longer than the leaves, stout, very 
woolly and cottony ; bracts numerous, linear. Head 1-1£ in. diam. ; invo- 
lucral scales numerous, linear-subulate, erect or recurved, woolly or glabrate ; 
rays very numerous, | in. long ; pappus -j in. long, Achene glabrous or his- 
pidulous. 
Middle Island: Upton Downs, Awatare, elev. 1500 ft., Mmiro ; Hopkins River, Mount 
: Cook, and elsewhere in the alps of Canterbury, 3-4500 ft., Travers and Haast. Best dis- 
tinguished from C. coriacea by the narrow, smaller, linear, longitudinally wrinkled leaves. 
Munro’s specimens have quite glabrous achenes, Haast’s are hispidulous. 
13. C. Lyallii, Hook. /., n. sp. Leaves 8-18 in. long, £- £• broad, 
narrow ensiform, gradually tapering from a silky sheathing grooved base to the 
tip, very rigidly coriaceous, quite smooth glabrous and even above, below with 
dense appressed white tomentum, even or grooved, tip tapering, rigid, pale 
! yellow when dry. Scape densely cottony; bracts rather rigid, linear. Head 
l£-li in. diam. ; involucral scales subulate-lanceolate, rigid, rather recurved, 
glabrous or cottony at the margins ; rays twisted, \ in. long ; pappus } in. 
long. Achene pubescent or silky. 
Middle Island : Dusky Bay, lyall; Hurrumui valleys, 1200-1600 ft., Travers. 
Abundant in the Rangitata, Two-thumb, and Malvern ranges, alt. 3-5000 ft., and alps of 
Hopkins River, alt. 2500 ft., Sinclair and Haast ; Otago, lake district and Liudis Pass, dis- 
placing the tussock grass at 4000 ft., Hector and Buchanan. A well-marked species, best 
distinguished by the very long, narrow, rigid leaves, which gradually taper from base to tip, 
and are usually grooved with parallel ribs beueath. 
14. C. viscosa, Hook. /., n. sp. Rhizome very stout, together with 
leaf-sheaths, 1 in. diam. Leaves crowded, 3 in. long, £ broad, exactly linear, 
obtuse, sessile on the broader, glabrous, grooved, brown, short sheaths, very 
rigid, even or grooved above, white with appressed down beneath and ridged 
with parallel ribs. Scapes much longer than leaves, stout ; bracts numerous, 
pubescent and viscid. Head ly in. diatn. ; involucral scales numerous, subu- 
late, woolly and viscid ; rays short, revolute ; pappus | in. long. Achene 
silky. 
Middle Island: summit of Mount Torlesse, alt. 5-6000 ft., Haast; Otago, lake dis- 
trict, subalpine, Sinclair and Haast. The short, linear, rigid, entire, viscid leaves, which 
are white and ribbed below, and viscid scape, are the best marks of this species ; it approaches 
states of C. discolor, but is much larger. 
