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the base, coriaceous, glabrous and subviscid above, beneath clothed with 
fulvous tomentum; margins recurved. Heads very numerous, in terminal 
rounded corymbs, shortly pedicelled, cylindrical, }in. long; invclucral 
bracts few, in several series; outer shorter, pubescent or glabrate; inner 
with short white radiating tips. Scales among the florets wanting or | or 2 
only. Florets few, 5-8. Achene pubescent. Pappus-hairs few, thickened 
above.—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 316; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
346. C. leptophylla var. y Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 133. 
Var. linearis 7'. Kirk l.c—Leaves rather distant, }-} in. long, very narrow, narrow- 
linear or linear-lanceolate, clothed with white tomentum beneath. Florets 4—6. 
Norta anp Sours Isuanps, Stewart Istanp: Not uncommon from Opotiki 
and Rotorua southwards. Sea-level to 3500 ft. December—February. Var. 
linearis : Near Dunedin, B. C. Aston! H. J. Matthews ! 
Very close to some forms of C. leptophylla, and only to be distinguished by the 
more fulvous viscid tomentum, fewer florets, and by the paucity or total absence of the 
scales among the florets, 
16. CRASPEDIA Forst.{.173 é 
Perennial herbs, usually more or less silky or woolly, rarely almost 
glabrous. Leaves radical or alternate, entire. Heads homogamous and 
discoid, small, numerous, sessile or nearly so, crowded together into a 
dense globose or ovoid glcmerule or compound head, which is surrounded 
by scarious bracts forming a general involucre. Involucre of the partial 
heads of several scarious hyaline bracts, without radiating tips. Receptacle 
small, with hyaline scales similar to the involucral bracts at the base of each 
floret. Florets 3-8, all hermaphrodite, tubular with a campanulate 5-toothed 
limb. Anthers sagittate at the base, more or less distinctly tailed. Style- 
branches almost terete, truncate at the tip. Achenes small, compressed, 
silky. Pappus-hairs in | series, plumose, free or connate at the base. 
A small genus of 5 or 6 species, confined to New Zealand, Australia, and 
Tasmania. The New Zealand species has the range of the genus. 
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1. C. uniflora Forst. f. Prodr. (1786) ee Baad variable stout or 
slender unbranched herb 4-20 in. high, silky, cottony .cr woolly, or nearly 
glabrous. Leaves nearly all radical, 1-8 in. long, obovate-oblong to spathu- 
late or spathulate-lanceolate, obtuse, narrowed into a short broad petiole, 
usually but not always fringed with white tomentum, often slightly viscid ; 
cauline leaves smaller and narrower, the upper reduced to distant bracts. 
Compound head or glomerule solitary, terminal, }-2 in. diam., globose or 
nearly so; bracts 4-10, ovate, herbaceous with a scarious margin, shorter 
than the head. Partial heads 3-8-flowered ; involucral bracts oblong or 
linear-cblong, thin and hyaline. Achene silky. Pappus-hairs plumose, as 
long as the florets—A. Roch. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 245; A. Cunn. Precur. 
(1838) n. 446; Raoul Choiw (1846) 45; T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 316 ; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 347. C. fimbriata DC. Prodr. vi (1837) 152 ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 131; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 144. C. Richea 
Cass. in Dict. Sci. Nat. xi (1834) 353; Benth. Fl. Austral. 11 (1866) 579. 
Staehelina fimbriata DC. Prodr. Forst. f. ec DC. Prodr. vi (1837) 152. 
Var. robusta Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 131.—Stout. Leaves obovate-spathu- 
late, subacute, narrowed into a broad flat petiole, sparsely hispid or glabrate, without 
white cottony margins. Scape leafy. Compound head large, 1-2 in. diam.—C. uniflora 
var. pedicellata 7’. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 317. 
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