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Souta Istanp: Nelson—Heaphy River, Dall/ abundant on the Brunner and 
Paparoa Mountains, W. Townson! Westland — Arthur’s Pass, J. B. Armstrong / 
T. Kirk! T. F. C., Cockayne! Kelly’s Hill, Petrie / Mount Wilberg, Cockayne ; Mount 
Tuhua, Cockayne ; Haast River and Makarora Valley, Poppelwell. 2500-5000 ft. 
December—January. ~~. GY 
Distinguished from C. Lyalliz, which is its nearest ally, by the broader perfectly 
straight leaves with a stout orange midrib and satiny appressed tomentum. 
29. C. Petriei Cheesem. Man. N.Z, Fl. (1906) 311.—Apparently a stout 
tufted plant. Leaves 8-18in. long or more, $-in. broad, dagger-shaped, 
narrowed into an acuminate rigid and almost pungent point, contracted just 
above the top of the sheath, strict, erect, rigidly coriaceous, above perfectly 
glabrous and when dry marked with a stout longitudinal ridge or plait on 
each side of the middle of the leaf, beneath clothed with silvery-white 
appressed satiny tomentum and with two grooves answering to the ridges 
of the upper surface ; midrib not evident on either surface ; margins con- 
spicuously recurved towards the tip of the leaf, less so or almost flat else- 
where ; sheaths 14-3 in. long, broader than the blade, deeply grooved, more 
or less covered with thin cottony tomentum. Scape 12-18 in. long, stout, 
densely cottony ; bracts numerous, narrow-linear, the lower often 2-3 in. 
long. Head 14in. diam. or more; involucral bracts subulate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, chaffy and rather rigid, glabrate or the outer somewhat cottony, 
often recurved. Achene hispid. 
Sourn Istanp: Nelson—Mount Cobb, F. G. Gibbs / Otago—Haast River and 
Makarora Valley, Poppelwell ; Clinton Saddle and Mackinnon’s Pass, Petrie / F. G. Gibbs ! 
H. J. Matthews! Routeburn and Garvie Mountains, Poppelwell ; Lake MHauroko, 
J. Crosby Smith; Takitimu Mountains, dA. Wall / 3000-5000 ft. December— 
January. 
A very remarkable plant. The straight dagger-shaped leaves, with their two longi- 
tudinal plaits and rigid acuminate points, are quite unlike those of any other species. 
30. C. Lyallii Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 133.—Stem short, stout, 
crowned with a dense tuft of crowded radiating leaves. Leaves 9-18 in. 
long or more, +-4in. broad, narrow-ensiform, straight or slightly curved, 
oradually tapering from the base to the rigid almost pungent tip, ngidly 
coriaceous, glabrous and smooth and even above, beneath strongly grooved 
and clothed with thin appressed tomentum or almost glabrous; margins 
quite entire ; sheaths broader than the blade, thin, grooved, clothed with 
snow-white tomentum. Scapes 1 or several, longer or shorter than the 
leaves, rather slender, white with cottony tomentum ; bracts linear. Head 
1-2 in. diam.; involucral bracts subulate-lanceolate, rigid, glabrate or the 
margins cottony, tips recurved. Rays rather short, narrow. Achene linear, 
hispidulous, longer than the pappus.—Z. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 290 ; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 312. see Ftauw® 65 - 2ty 
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Soutu Istanp: Abundant in mountain districts from the south of the Nelson 
Provincial District to Foveaux Strait, but most plentiful on the eastern side of the 
dividing-range. 1000-4500 ft. December—January. 
One of the most distinct species of the genus, easily recognized by the narrow 
tapering rigid and coriaceous and almost pungent-pointed leaves. 
31. C. pseudo-Lyallii Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlii (1910) 314.— 
In general characters closely allied to C. Lyalla ; but the leaves are much 
less rigid, and are not drawn out into the almost pungent point of that 
