936 COMPOSITAE. : [Celmasia. 
at the base but usually incurved at the tips, $-4in. long, linear-subulate, 
acute or apiculate, flat above but shghtly convex beneath, green on both 
surfaces, glabrous or glandular-ciliate at the margins and apex, base with 
a short and broad membranous slightly cottony sheath. Peduncles slender, 
2-3 in. long, often numerous ; terminal and lateral, glandular-pubescent or 
cottony ; bracts linear-subulate. Heads 4—-#in. diam.; involucral bracts 
subulate-lanceolate, acute, glandular and silky, margins often scarious. 
Rays numerous, narrow, 4in. long. Achene hnear, silky.—T. Kirk Students’ 
Fl. (1899) 281; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 301; Lil. N.Z. Fl. i (1914) 
t. 93. ) : 
Var. Villosa Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 302.—Leaves densely clothed on 
both surfaces with soft spreading glandular hairs. Mount Murchison, Buller Valley, 
W. Townson ! | 
South Istanp: Nelson—Mountains near the Heaphy River, Diamond Lake, 
Mount Cobb, and generally not uncommon on the mountains of north-west Nelson, 
F. G. Gibbs / Mount Arthur and Mount Peel, Spencer / T. F. C.; mountains near 
Lake Guyon, H. H. Travers! Lake Tennyson, &. MW. Loing ! Mount Rochfort and 
Mount Frederic, and other mountains near Westport, W. ZYownson/ Westland— 
Mountains near Greymouth, Helms / Mount Davy,~P. G. Morgan ! 3000-4500 ft. 
January—February. Whe) Sen 7) 7 0 AW TT +4745. 
This has a very different aspect from that of any other species, and can be 
recognized at a glance. The procumbent stems, which are almost woody at the base, 
the numerous ascending or suberect branches, and the small densely crowded linear- 
subulate leaves, incurved towards the tips of the branches, but spreading below, and 
which are green on both surfaces, are in combination a very striking set of characters. 
Z. C. ramulosa Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1867) 733.—Stems woody, 
procumbent, branched, 2-8in. long; branches short, ascending or almost 
erect. Leaves numerous, densely imbricating, +-4in. long, linear-oblong, 
obtuse, coriaceous, with broad membranous sheathing bases, glabrous above, 
clothed with soft white tomentum beneath; margins strongly revolute. 
Peduncles 1 or rarely 2 at the tips of the branches, short, slender, 4-14 in. 
long, glandular-tomentose ; bracts 1-3, small, narrow-linear. Heads 3-1 in. 
diam. ; involucral bracts linear-oblong, acute, glandular-pubescent. Rays 
spreading, narrow. Ripe achenes not seen.—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 
281; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. pene) 301. 
var. +uberCelala, S47, 72+ By 
SoutH ISLAND: Otago—Mount Pisa, Petrie! Mount Cardrona, Goyen ; Mount 
Bonpland, H. J. Matthews ! Mackinnon’s Pass, H. J. Matthews and I’. G. Gibbs ! Eyre 
Mountains, J. Speden ! Poppelwell ; Cecil Peak, Old Man Range, Cockayne /! mountains 
above Dusky Sound, Hector and Buchanan! A. Reischek ! mountains near Lake 
Hauroko, Thomson / | 
A very distinct little plant, much smaller than the preceding, and with smaller 
appressed leaves which are white and cottceny beneath, and show no signs of the 
peculiar lepidote scales of UC. Gibbsii. Dr. Cockayne sends me a variety with the 
leaves patent and acute, collected on Mount Dick, near Kingston, Lake Wakatipu. 
3. C. Gibbsii Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 300.—Stems slender, 
woody, sparingly branched, creeping and rooting at the base, erect or 
ascending above; branches few, short, leafy. Leaves numerous, laxly 
imbricating, spreading or reflexed from an appressed sheathing base, 4-3 in, 
long, 7o-4in. broad, linear-lanceolate, tapering from the base to a rather 
obtuse or subacute tip, coriaceous, somewhat rigid, green or glabrous 
above, beneath and on the sheaths sparsely covered with minute white 
lepidote scales ; margins thick, revolute ; midrib impressed above, much 
thickened and flattened beneath. Peduncles near the ends of the branches, 
solitary or more rarely 2 or 3, 14-24 in. long, slender, sparsely glandular- 
lepidote ; bracts 8-10, small, erect, linear-oblong, obtuse. ‘Heads 2in. 
