992 COMPOSITAE. [ Celmisia. 
Var. rugulosa Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 313.—Shorter and stouter. Leaves 
more coriaceous, wrinkled above; sheaths more cottony. Scape stouter, densely 
cottony. 
Norts Istranp: Auckland—Castle Rock, Coromandel, 7. fF. C.; Table Mountain 
(Whakairi) and other hills between the Thames and Tairua, Adams! T. F. C. Vayr. 
rugulosa: Mount Manaia and hills to the north of Whangarei Harbour, 7’. Kirk / 
To BO: December—January. | 
Most nearly allied to C. major, from which it-is separated by the broader and 
flatter membranous leaves. Mr. Kirk placed my variety rugulosa under C. Monroi, 
from which it differs markedly in the much less rigid habit, spreading thinner leaves, 
shorter cauline bracts, nearly glabrous involucre, and fewer rays. It is much nearer 
to C. Adamsit. P 
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40. C. major, Jheesem. n. sp.—Rhizome stout, as thick as the finger, 
erect or inclined. “Leaves very numerous and very closely packed, forming 
large dense clumps; spreading or curved, 4-l5in. long, 4-2in. broad, 
narrow-linear, gradually tapering upwards into an acuminate point and 
downwards into a thin and membranous sheath which is densely cottony 
along the margins; blade thick and coriaceous, glabrous above excepting 
a thin silvery pellicle, beneath covered with appressed silvery-white 
tomentum ; margins more or less revolute. Scapes stout, numerous, erect, 
equalling or shorter than the leaves; bracts many, appressed to the scape, 
both bracts and scapes covered with snow-white cottony tomentum. 
Heads large, 1-l1} in. diam. ; involucral scales more or less cottony. Ray- 
florets many. Achene linear, grooved, glabrous.—C. eracilenta var. b 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 123. C. longifolia vars. major and asteliac- 
folia T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 289; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 314. 
Nortu Istanwp: Auckland—Great Barrier Island, 7. Kirk / cliffs north of the 
Manukau Harbour, 7. Kirk, T. F.C. Taranaki—Mount Egmont Ranges, Buchanan, 
Tad: Ci Sea-level to 4500 ft. December—February. 
This is such a remarkably distinct plant that it is difficult to understand why 
Hooker should have ‘associated it with either C. gracilenta or C. graminifolia, from both 
of which its stout spreading habit, thick coriaceous leaves, and large heads at once 
distinguish it. 
41. C. graeilenta Hook. f. Fl. Antaret. i (1844) 35.—Stems usually 
densely tufted. Radical leaves numerous, 3-15 in. long, ~,-in. broad, 
very narrow-linear, strict and erect or softer and almost flaccid, sub- 
corlac-ous, convex above and obsoletely channelled about the middle, 
brownish-green and glabrous, or more or less covered with cobwebby 
tomentum when young; beneath clothed with silvery-white tomentum ; 
margins strongly revolute, sometimes almost to the midrib: base of leaf 
dilated into a short and broad membranous sheath. Scapes usually 
several, shorter or longer than the leaves, slender, usually clothed with 
white cottony tomentum; bracts numerous, very narrow-linear. Heads 
+—3 in. diam.; involucral bracts narrow linear-subulate, glabrate or more 
or less cottony, often blackish at the tips. Achene narrow, glabrous.— 
Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 122. C. longifolia Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. FI. (1864) 
1545 T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 289; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. FI. (1906) 344 
(in part, not of Cassini). Aster gracilentus Banks and Solander MS. 
NortH AND Souts Istanps, Stewart Istanp: From the Thames Valley and 
the Waikato abundant throughout. Sea-level to 5000 ft. ovember—January. 
This, the first species of Celmisia collected in New Zealand, was gathered by Banks 
and Solander in March, 1770, on the hills overlooking Admiralty Bay, a little to the 
west of Queen Charlotte Sound. Solander described his plant under the name of Aster 
