Celmisia. | COMPOSITAE. _ 999 
petiole, 4-in. broad, narrow oblong-spathulate or elliptic-spathulate to 
obovate-spathulate, acute or apiculate, gradually narrowed into a linear 
petiole which expands at the base into a broad veined sheath, thin and 
membranous, green and glabrous above, beneath clothed with thin greyish- 
white tomentum. Midrib evident, veins obscurely reticulate; margins 
distantly and acutely minutely dentate. Scapes 3-4 in a tuft, tall and 
slender, 8-12 in. long, striate, glabrous or nearly so; bracts 4-6, $in. long, 
narrow-linear. Heads rather large, 14}-l4in. diam.; involucral bracts 
usually in 3 series, linear-subulate, viscid ; outer reflexed, inner erect. 
Achenes silky. 
Srrwart ISLAND: Meadows at Freshwater River, alt. 100 ft., Poppelwell ! 
A somewhat puzzling plant. On the whole, its affinities are nearest to 
C. glandulosa, of which it has the foliage with its peculiar dentate margins ; but, on 
the other hand, the indumentum is altogether different. 
57. C. vernicosa: Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i (1844) 34, it. 26, 27 .—Perfectly 
glabrous, leafy, densely tufted. Leaves very numerous, most densely 
crowded, rosulate, spreading, 1-4 in. long, 4-4in. broad, linear, straight or 
curved, obtuse or subacute, in small specimens often knobbed at the tip, — 
rigid and coriaceous, polished and shining, entire or obscurely toothed, 
flat or convex above, margins recurved, midrib prominent beneath ; sheath 
short, broad. Scapes usually numerous, 1-9in. high, rather stout, often 
flexuose, clothed with leafy coriaceous bracts. Heads 1-l4in. diam. ; 
involucral bracts linear, erect; margins often ciliate. Rays numerous, 
white, rather broad, spreading. Disc-florets purple; corolla-tube pilose. 
Achene hispid.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 136; 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 
293; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 318; Subantarct. Is. N.Z. 11 (1909) 414. 
AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL ISLANDS: Abundant from sea-level to 1500 ft., usually 
on moist grassy places, Hooker and all subsequent collectors. November—December. 
_ An exceedingly handsome plant, of which a beautiful plate is given in the “ Flora 
Antarctica.” It and the following species are the only ones with purple disc-florets. 
58. ©. Campbellensis Chapm. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxi (1891) 407.— 
Leaves rosulate, 3-6in. long, }-?in. broad, lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, 
obtuse or subacute, gradually narrowed to a short broad sheathing base, 
hardly coriaceous, glabrous above and longitudinally furrowed, sparingly 
tomentose and with prominent longitudinal ribs beneath; margins flat, 
finely and sharply serrate. Scapes 6-10in. high, sparingly tomentose ; 
bracts numerous, linear, sheathing at the base. Head 14-2in. diam. ; 
involucral bracts linear, acute, glabrate or sparingly cottony, midrib evident. 
Rays spreading, white. Disc-florets purple ; corolla-tube pilose. Achene 
hispid.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 318 ; Subantarct. Is. N.Z. i (1909) 
414. OC, ChapmaniiT. Kirk in Gard. Chron. ix (1891) 731, £. 146; Students’ 
Fl. (1899) 293." 
AUCKLAND IsLtanps: Carnley Harbour, Dorrien-Smith and Cockayne! J.S. Tennant ! 
CAMPBELL ISLAND: Venus Cove, Perseverance Harbour, fF. Rk. Chapman and T'. Kirk / 
The flower-heads and scapes hardly seem to differ from those of C. vernicosa, but 
the leaves are altogether different, being broader and not so coriaceous, longitudinally 
furrowed above, and strongly ribbed beneath. 
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