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XXXIX. COMPOSITE. 
[Celmisia. 
or toothed ; petioles dilating into very short sheaths, rigid but thin. Scape 
slender ; bracts few, linear, acuminate. Head -f- in. diam. ; involueral scales 
linear-subulate, erect or recurved, pubescent and ciliate ; receptacle deeply al- 
veolate ; rays few, 5 in. long ; pappus -g- in. long. Acliene silky. 
Northern Island: base of Tongariro, Colenso. Middle Island: Mount Cook, alt. 
5-6006 ft., Haast. 
24. C. vernicosa, Hoolc.f.; FI. Antarct. i. 34. 1. 26 and 27. A 
densely tufted, very leafy, perfectly glabrous species, everywhere polished and 
shining. Leaves excessively densely crowded, rosulate, straight or curved, 
1-4 in. long, L-i broad, linear, obtuse, extremely coriaceous, convex above, 
sometimes obscurely toothed; margins often recurved. Scapes solitary or 
numerous, very stout, flexuose, 1-8 in. high, covered with leafy coriaceous 
bracts. Head 1-ly in. diam. ; involueral scales linear, erect ; rays numerous, 
-j-y in. long ; disk purple ; corolla-tube pilose ; pappus ± in. long. Achene 
hispid. 
Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell’s Island : common from the sea to 1000 ft., 
,T. B. H. A most beautiful plant, quite unlike any hitherto found in New Zealand proper. 
4. VITTADINIA, A. Rich. 
Herbs or undershrubs, branched, leafy. Heads on the ends of the branches, 
their characters those of Celmisia, but involucre obconic ; achene compressed, 
very slender; rays short, and anthers not tailed. 
A small genus, confined to Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Sandwich Islands. 
1. V. australis, A. Rich. ; — Euryhiopsis australis, DC.; — LI. N. Z. i. 
125. A small, much branched, more or less pubescent, hispid and glandular 
herb, 6-12 in. high, with a short, woody rhizome, and erect, leafy, slender 
branches. Leaves y— § in. long, cuneate or linear-spathulate, 3— 5-lobed or 
-toothed at the tip. Heads solitary, short-peduncled ; involueral scales few, 
in two series, linear, rigid, erect ; rays one series, white tipped with pink ; 
pappus white or reddish, £ in. long. Achene not so long as pappus, linear, 
compressed, hispid, hairs forked at the tip. 
Common in dry places throughout the islands, from Auckland southwards, Wairau gorge, 
alt. 4-5000 ft., Travers (a very tomentose form) ; in Otago it ranges from the sea-level to 
the snow-ranges, Hector and Buchanan. 
5. LAGENOPHORA, Cass. 
Small perennial herbs. Leaves oblong or spathulate, usually membranous. 
Scapes single-headed. — Involucre of two series of narrow, oppressed, acute 
scales. Receptacle rather broad, naked. Florets many, of ray in one series, 
female not yellow, with revolute ligule, and compressed, beaked, often glan- 
dular achene: of disk tubular, 5-toothed; achene often imperfect; pappus 0. 
A small genus, found in Australia, Tasmania, India, China, and extratropical S. America. 
Petioles slender. Leaves hairy or glabrate. Heads in 1. L. Forsteri. 
Petioles slender. Leaves hairy or glabrate. Heads V-j in 2. I. petiolata. 
Petioles short. Leaves hirsute. Aehcnes glabrous 3. L. lanata. 
Petioles broad. Leaves hirsute, piunatifid. Achenes viscid .... 4. A. pinnatifida. 
