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Celmisia.] tomentum beneath; margins strongly recurved; sheaths from ⅓ to ½ the length of the blade, rather broad, thin and membranous, cottony on the back. Scape stout, variable in length, 1–10 in. high, cottony or tomentose; bracts few or many, linear-subulate with a broad sheathing base. Head 1 in. diam.; involucral bracts lanceolate - subulate, outer tomentose or cottony, inner nearly glabrous. Eays short. Achene silky.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 289.

34. C. laricifolia, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii. 331.—Stems prostrate or decumbent, much-branched at the base; branches 1–3 in. long, densely leafy. Leaves numerous, crowded, erect or recurved, ⅓–1 m. long, $1⁄20$ in. broad, very narrow-linear or acerose, pungent, glabrous or slightly silky above, clothed with silvery tomentum beneath; margins strongly recurved; sheaths much broader than the blade, membranous, cottony or almost glabrous. Scape 2–4 in. long, very slender, glabrate or cottony; bracts few, very small. Head ½ in. diam.; involucral bracts few, erect, linear-subulate, cottony. Rays few, short. Achene hispid.—''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 135; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 289.

35. C. Hectori, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 135.—Stems prostrate, branched, often woody at the base; branches densely tufted. Leaves numerous, crowded, imbricate, ½–1 in. long, $1⁄6$–$1⁄4$ in. broad, linear-spatbulate or linear-obovate, obtuse or subacute, gradually narrowed below, coriaceous, silky or clothed with a silvery pellicle above, covered with appressed silky tomentum beneath, margins recurved; sheaths slightly expanded, cottony or nearly glabrous. Scapes stout, 2–4 in. long, tomentose and villous; bracts usually numerous, linear. Heads ¾–1 in. diam.; involucral bracts few, linear, acute, pubescent. Rays rather short, broad. Achene silky.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 291.

Tararua Range, Budden. Canerbury—Mount Brewster, Haast; Mount Cook district, ''Dixon! T.F.C.''