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Nortru Istanp: Summit of Moehau (Cape Colville), Adams / Mount Hikurangi, 
Colenso, Adams and Petrie! Tongariro, Ngauruhoe, and Ruapehu, with other portions 
of the central volcanic plateau, 7. F. C., Spencer! Cockayne, and others ; Ruahine 
Mountains, Colenso, B. OC. Aston! Tararua Mountains, Buchanan. SoutH ISLAND: 
Not uncommon on the mountains of Nelson, Marlborough, and Canterbury, rarer to 
the south. 2500-5000 ft. December—January. 
A handsome plant, easily recognized by its broad plaited leaves clothed on both 
surfaces with snow-white tomentum ; but small forms appear to pass into the following. 
14. ©. Haastii Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 131.—Forming large 
patches. Rhizome creeping, putting up short erect branches. Leaves 
ereenish-grey, 14-3 in. long, 4-1 in. wide, broadly oblong to oblong-spathu- 
late or narrow obovate-spathulate, obtuse or acute, narrowed towards the 
base, subcoriaceous, glabrous and usually longitudinally plaited above, 
beneath clothed with thin whitish tomentum ; margins recurved, minutely 
denticulate ; sheaths 4-4 as long as the blade, thin, membranous, glabrous. 
Scapes usually several, 2-6in. long, stout, densely tomentose or almost 
elabrous ; bracts many, linear, acute or rarely obtuse, tomentose. Heads 
1-1} in. diam; involucral bracts linear, acute or acuminate, membranous, 
softly tomentose or almost villous. Rays spreading. Achene linear, 
elabrous, longer than the pappus.—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 284; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 305 ; LU. N.Z. Fl. 1 (1914) f. ie 
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Soutn Istanp : Not uncommon in the central and western portions of the Southern 
Alps, from the Spenser Mountains southwards. 3000-6000 ft. December—I*eb- 
ruary. 
Well marked by the greenish-grey foliage, stout usually tomentose scapes with 
numerous linear bracts, membranous involucral bracts, and glabrous achene. 
15. C. Poppelwellii Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xtvii (1915) 50.—Stems 
rather stout, 4in. high or thereabouts, giving off several horizontal or 
ascending branches. Leaves closely :mbricating, $-}in. long, $ in. broad, 
linear-spathulate, rather coriaceous, acute or subacute ; margins recurved, 
not toothed, suddenly expanded below the petiolar part mto a broad 
glabrous strongly nerved sheath, above more or less plaited and covered 
with a thin pellicle of silvery-grey tomentum; below clothed with loose 
erey tomentum; midrib prominent, mo-e or less glabrous. Scapes 1-3 to 
a branch, 3-5 in. long, slender, tomentose ; bracts numerous, linear. Heads 
3] in. diam. ; involucral bracts in 2-3 series, linear-subulate, viscid. Ray- 
florets numerous. Achene glabrous. 
Soutnu Istanp: Otago—Eyre Mountains, Poppelwell / Mount Cleughearn, J. Crosby 
Smith. 
This appears to be a distinct and well-marked species ; but I have only seen very 
fragmentary specimens. Mr. Petrie compares it with C. Haastii, but the branching 
stems and much smaller and narrower leaves do not show any close affinity with that 
plant. 
16. C. prorepens Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix (1887) 326.—Stems 
prostrate, much branched, often forming large patches, densely clothed with 
the remains of the old leaf-sheaths. Leaves numerous, crowded, green on 
both surfaces, 14-3in. long, $-lin. broad, linear-cblong to linear-obovate, 
acute or subacute, hardly coriaceous, longitudinally furrowed and wrinkled, 
viscid, glabrous on both surfaces.or slightly cottony beneath, coarsely 
serrate, margins slightly recurved ; sheathing petiole short, narrower than 
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