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Celmisia.], cordate at the base, coriaceous, entire, dull-green and glabrous above, plaited, beneath clothed with velvety ferruginous tomentum; petiole grooved, expanded into a broad sheath at the base, villous with brownish tomentum or almost glabrous, sometimes purplish. Scape 6–12 in. long, stout, clothed with ferruginous tomentum; bracts numerous, linear. Heads 1½–2 in. diam.; involucral bracts numerous, villous or almost glabrous. Rays narrow, ¾ in. long. Achene linear, glabrous, strongly ribbed, exceeding the pappus.—C. petiolata var. cordatifolia, Kirk, Students' Fl. 286.

18. C. petiolata, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 134.—Leaves 4–14 in. long including the petiole, ¾–2 in. wide; blade about half the length, oblong to linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, subacute, membranous or coriaceous, entire, glabrous or silky above, beneath clothed with whitish appressed tomentum; midrib usually glabrous, purple, veins diverging; petiole purplish, grooved, more or less loosely tomentose, expanded at the base into a short sheath. Scapes usually several, 6–18 in. long, often purplish, tomentose or villous; bracts linear. Heads 1½–2½ in. diam.; involucral bracts linear-subulate, usually densely tomentose. Eay-florets numerous, with a ligule ½–¾ in. long. Achene glabrous or nearly so, strongly ribbed.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 286.

19. C. Rutlandii, ''T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxvii. (1895) 329.—Leaves 3–12 in. long including the petiole, l–2½ in. broad, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute or apiculate, narrowed into the petiole, coriaceous, glabrous above or the midrib slightly cottony,