Cc, yore Kos PRL . “Ne : $87. 
Celmisia. | COMPOSITAE. 4 945 
SourH Isnanp: Not uncommon in the central and western portions of the 
Southern Alps, from Lake Tennyson southwards to the south-west of Otago. Var. 
membranacea: Clarence and Waiau Valleys, W. 7. L. Travers! JT. Kirk! Lake 
RED YROD, R. M. Laing! Lyell Mountains, W. Townson / 2000-4500 ft. Decem- 
er—January. 
Best distinguished by the almost membranous narrow-oblong leaves, with purple 
midribs and long and slender purple petioles. A very conspicuous plant in the Mount 
Cook district. | 
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24. C. rigida ,Cockayne in Bot. Survey Stewart Id. (1909) 44.—Very 
close to C. petrolata, but stouter in all its parts, and more rigid and erect. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 4-6 in. long or more, 14-1? in. 
broad, rigid, thick and coriaceous, not membranous; tomentum of under- 
surface usually ferruginous, rarely white; midrib greenish-white towards 
the top of the leaf, purplish near the base; sheath full purple, edged with 
lax white tomentum. Scape stout, glabrous or pubescent. Heads rather 
larger than C. petiolata ; involucral bracts glabrate or sparingly tomentose. 
—C. petiolata var. rigida_T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 286; Cheesem. Man. 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) 307. feaas. YE: 220 5 US “RBI 
STEWART IstandD: Cliffs to the south of Mason Bay, not common,. 7’. Kirk / 
Cockayne! Ruggedy Mountains, both inland and near the sea, Poppelwell. Sea- 
level to 1000 ft. 
Closely allied to C. petiolata, but Dr. Cockayne assures me that it is strikingly 
different in appearance, and that living plants of the two species growing side by side 
can be distinguished at a glance. 
25. C. Rutlandii 7. Kerk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii (1895) 329.—Leaves 
3-12 in. long including the petiole, 1-241. broad, oblong or oblong-lanceo- 
late, acute or apiculate, narrowed into the petiole, coriaceous, glabrous above 
or the midrib slightly cottony, beneath clothed with appressed white satiny 
tomentum ; margins entire or minutely denticulate, often revolute ; petiole 
shorter than the blade or equalling it, broad, grooved, densely clothed with 
loose snow-white tomentum, Scapes several, exceeding the leaves, softly 
cottony ; bracts narrow-linear, purplish, tomentose. Heads 1-1? in. diam. ; 
involucral bracts linear, acuminate, erect, glabrate or the outer cottony. 
Ray-florets numerous. Achenes silky, strongly grooved.— Students’ FI. 
(1899) 286; Oheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 307. 
soutH Istanp: Marlborough—Mount Stokes, 7. Kirk! J. H. Macmahon ! De- 
cember—January. 
A handsome and distinct species, allied to C. petiolata, but differing in the loose 
snow-white tomentum of the sheaths, the satiny under-surface of the leaves, and the 
thin erect almost glabrous involucral bracts. 
26. €. spectabilis Hook. f. Fl. Antarct.i (1844) 35.—Often forming large 
patches. Stems stout, with the leaf-sheaths 1-2in. diam. Leaves very 
numerous, crowded, rosulate; blade 53-6in. long, }-3in. broad, narrow 
linear-oblong, acute or obtuse, slightly narrowed towards the base, very 
thick and coriaceous, glabrous or with a thin pellicle of silvery hairs above, 
longitudinally furrowed, beneath clothed with densely matted pale-buff or 
white woolly tomentum ; margins recurved, entire or minutely serrulate : 
sheaths usually equalling the blade, membranous, clothed on both surfaces 
with loose soft and silky snow-white tomentum. Scapes 1 or several, stout, 
much longer than the leaves, densely cottony ; bracts numerous, linear. 
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