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Celmisia.]

30. C. Monroi, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 133.—Leaves 3–12 in. long, ⅓–¾ in. broad, narrow linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, acute or subacute, strict, coriaceous, longitudinally grooved or plaited above and covered with a delicate pellicle of silvery hairs, beneath clothed with appressed white tomentum, often wrinkled in parallel lines when dry; margins recurved; sheaths short, densely clothed with snow-white tomentum. Scapes 1 or several, 8–16 in. long, stout, woolly and cottony; bracts numerous, linear. Head 1–2 in. diam.; involucral bracts numerous, linear-subulate, usually more or less woolly and cottony. Rays numerous, ½–¾ in. long; tube of corolla glabrous. Achene hispidulous.—''Bot. Mag. t. 7496; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 288.

31. C. Adamsii, ''Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxvii. (1895) 329.—Leaves 6–18 in. long including the sheaths, ½–1 in. broad, narrow linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, narrowed into an evident petiole at the top of the sheath, membranous, glabrous above, beneath clothed with soft white tomentum except the evident midrib; margins minutely denticulate, flat or slightly recurved; sheaths thin and membranous, grooved, sparingly cottony or almost glabrous. Scapes equalling or exceeding the leaves, slender, sometimes flexuose, thinly clothed with cottony tomentum; bracts short, linear. Head 1–1½ in. diam.; involucral bracts subulate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous or cottony. Rays few, spreading. Achene glabrous.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 288.

Var. rugulosa, Cheesem.—Shorter and stouter. Leaves more coriaceous, wrinkled above; sheaths more cottony. Scapes stouter, densely cottony.

Auckland—Castle Rock, Coromandel, T.F.C.; Table Mountain (Whakairi) and other hills between the Thames and Tairua, ''Adams! T.F.C.'' Var. rugulosa: Mount Manaia and hills to the north of Whangarei Harbour, ''Kirk! T.F.C.'' December–January.