956 COMPOSITAE. [ Celmisia. 
sometimes almost to the midrib, which is wholly covered with softer and 
paler more appressed tomentum. Sheaths broader than the blade, tightly 
appressed to the branch, thin and membranous, strongly grooved, glabrous 
except the margins,. which are clothed with long whitish tomentum. 
Scape usually one to a rosette, 1$-2}in. long, stout, densely clothed with 
buff tomentum; bracts few, linear. Heads 1-l4in. diam.; involucral 
bracts few, linear-spathulate, acute, tomentose. Achene silky. 
SourtH Istanp: Nelson—Summit of Mount Arthur, 6000ft., 7. F£. C.  Canter- 
bury—Crest of Mount Ollivier Range, Mount Cook district, in rocky places, not 
common, 6500-7000 ft., 7. F. C. 
Allied to C. Hectori, and closely approaching it in size and habit, but differing in 
the laxer yellowish-buff tomentum, linear-subulate leaves with tightly appressed 
sheaths, strongly revolute leaf-margins, and prominent midribs. 
49. ©. Maemahoni 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvu (1895) 327.— 
Tufted, forming small patches. Leaves numercus, crowded, resulate, 
1-11 in. long including the sheath, linear-oblong, acute or subacute, thick 
and coriaceous, densely clothed on both surfaces with Jong white or butt 
silky hairs, 5-7-nerved beneath; margins flat; sheaths short, about as 
broad as the blade, glabrous above, with silky hairs beneath. Scapes 
stout, 8-5in. long, densely villous with long silky hairs; bracts very 
numerous, narrow-linear. Head 2-lin. diam. ; involucral bracts numerous, 
linear, acute or acuminate, outer villous, inner hispid with short brownish 
hairs. Rays short, broad, Achene hispid.—Students’ Fl. (1899) 291; 
Cheesem, Man. N.Z, Fl. (1906) 316. 
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SourH Istanp: Marlborough — Mount Stokes, alt. 3800ft., J. H. Macmahon ! 
Nelson—Mount Richmond, alt. 4000 ft., J. H. Macmahon ! January. 
A beautiful little plant, apparently with a very restricted distribution, and widely 
different from any other species. I have seen no specimens except those gathered by 
Mr. Macmahon. 
50. C. parva 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii (1895) 328.—Small, 
densely tufted, seldom more than 2-3in. high. Leaves numerous, spread- 
ing; blade 4-1 in, long, }-4in. broad, linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate 
or narrow-oblong, acute, narrowed into a rather slender petiole and then 
expanded into a membranous cottony sheath as long as the blade, sub- 
coriaceous, glabrous and often reticulated above, beneath clothed with white 
appressed tomentum; midrib usually evident; margins flat or slightly 
revolute, distinctly denticulate. Scape 14-3 in. high, very slender, glabrate 
or slightly cottony ; bracts 2-3, small, narrow-linear, sheathing and dilated 
at the base. Head 4-2in. diam.; involucral bracts linear-lanceolate, 
acute, scarious, often reddish at the tips, glabrate or the outer slightly 
pilose. Rays narrow. Achene hispid.—Students’ Fl. (1899) 291; Cheesem. 
Man, N.Z. Fl. (1906) 316. 
Sours Istanp: Nelson—Mountains at the Heaphy River, Dall! Mount Cobb, 
F. G. Gibbs; Mount Rochfort, H. J. Matthews. 3000-4000 ft. Decem ber- 
January. 
A very curious little plant. Mr. Dall’s specimens are all I have seen. 
51. C. sessiliflora Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 135.—Much branched 
at the base; each branch clothed with densely imbricating leaves, and 
forming a hard rosette 1-l4in, diam., the rosettes usually compacted into 
