948 | COMPOSITAE. [ Celmasia. 
species. Upper surface grooved and plaited, dark-green (not yellowish- 
ereen). Under-surface densely clothed with white silky tomentum, which 
usually conceals both the veins and midrib.—C. Lyallu var. pseudo-Lyallu 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 312. 
Sours Istanp: Canterbury—Drier mountains of the Wainiakariri basin, abundant, 
Cockayne! T. F. C.; Mount Peel, H. H. Allan! Rf. M. Laing! 2500-4500 ft. 
December—January. 
There is not much to separate this plant from C. Lyalli, but the appearance is 
somewhat distinct, and Dr. Cockayne, who has had ample opportunities of studying 
it, has always maintained it as a valid species. But he is now inclined to consider it 
a hybrid between C. Lyallit and C. spectabilis. 
32. ©. viseosa Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 133.—More or less 
viscid in all its parts. Stem branched; branches short, stout, with the 
old sheaths 1-14in. diam. Leaves numerous, crowded, erect, 3-5 in. long, 
iin. broad, linear, obtuse or acute, viscid, very thick and coriaceous, 
rigid, longitudinally grooved on both surfaces, glabrous or hoary above, 
beneath white or grey with appressed tomentum; sheaths about | in. 
long, broader than the blade, glabrous, brown. Scapes usually several, 
much longer than the leaves, 6-12 in. long, stout, pubescent and viscid ; 
bracts numerous, linear. Head l4in. diam.; involucral bracts numerous, 
linear-subulate, densely woolly and tomentose, viscid. Rays short, spread- 
ing. Achene linear, silky—TZ. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 290; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 312; JU. N.Z. Fl. 1 (1914) t. 97. 
Sourn Istanp: Not uncommon in dry alpine districts from eastern Nelson, Lake 
Tennyson, and eastern Canterbury southwards to eastern Otago and Foveaux Strait. 
3900 ft.—6500 ft. December—February. = a iA i, 
A very distinct plant, well marked by the short and narrow erect grooved and 
viscid leaves, with glabrous sheaths. 
33. C. Hookeri Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlvii (1915) 115.—A large 
handsome species. Root stout, as thick as the thumb. Leaves 8-20 in. 
long or more including the petiole, 1$-3in. broad, lanceolate to oblong- 
lanceolate or spathulate-lanceolate, acute, narrowed into the petiole, cori- 
acecus, glabrous or slightly cottony above but with woolly margins, beneath 
clothed with soft white or buff tomentum, entire or very obscurely 
serrulate ; petiole as long as the blade, narrow, broader and sheathing at 
the base, grooved, densely woolly or almost glabrous. Scapes longer than 
the leaves, densely woolly ; bracts numerous, linear or linear-spathulate, 
tomentose, the lowest sometimes 4in. long. Heads about 4 in. diam. ; 
involucral bracts narrow-linear, densely and softly woolly. Ray-florets 
slender; tube of corolla of disc-florets thickened below. Achene linear, 
glabrous, hardly equalling the pappus.—C. verbascifolia 7. Kirk Students’ 
FI. (1899) 285; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 309 (in part, but not of 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 121). -7 yy 7 146 
Sourn Istanp: North-east Otago—Waitaki Valley, Horse Ranges, Flag Swamp, 
Macrae’s, Petrie! T. Kirk! Sea-level to 2000 ft. December—February. 
In the first edition of this work I followed, with great doubt, Kirk’s identification 
of Hooker’s C. verbascifolia with the plant described above. But I have long ago 
satisfied myself that this view is erroneous, and that the true C’. verbascifolia is identical 
with Chapman’s C. Brownii. Dr. Cockayne has arrived at the same conclusion, and 
s we plant of eastern Otago thus required a name he has applied that of C. Hooker 
o it. 
