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1. C. Walkeri, ''T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' ix. (1877) 549, t. 30.—Stem stout, woody, much or sparingly branched, procumbent or suberect, 1–4 ft. long; branches spreading, densely leafy. Leaves very numerous, crowded, with broad imbricating sheathing bases wider than the blade, 1–1½ in. long; blade spreading, linear, acute, subcoriaceous, glabrous and somewhat viscid above, clothed with soft white tomentum beneath; margins fiat, serrulate. Peduncles 1–3 near the tips of the branches, 4–8 in. long, slender, glandular-pubescent; bracts numerous, linear-subulate. Heads 1–1½ in. diam.; involucral bracts linear-subulate, pubescent and glandular, tips recurved. Ray-florets 30–40; ligule narrow, spreading. Achenes linear, silkv, with 2–3 obscure ribs on each face.—Students' Fl. 280.

2. C. rupestris, ''Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xvi. (1884) 409.—Stems long, much-branched, stout and woody, prostrate, scrambling over rocks; branches ascending at the tips, densely clothed with closely imbricating leaves. Leaves numerous, crowded, ½–1 in. long, narrow linear-spathulate, obtuse, gradually narrowed to the base and then expanded into a broad membranous sheath, silky above, beneath clothed with soft white tomentum, suberect when young, patent or deflexed when old; margins strongly revolute. Peduncles 1 or 2 near the tips of the branches, 3–6 in. long, glandular-pubescent. Heads about 1 in. diam.; involucral bracts numerous, narrow-linear, pubescent and glandular. Ray-florets numerous, narrow, spreading. Achenes not seen.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 281.

3. C. Gibbsii, Cheesem. n. sp.—Stems slender, woody, sparingly branched, creeping and rooting at the base, erect or ascending above; branches few, short, leafy. Leaves numerous, laxly imbricating, spreading or reflexed from an appressed sheathing base,