| C. Herbaceous. Leaves rosulate. Disc-florets purple. | |
| Leaves 1–4 in. × 18–13in., linear, coriaceous, shining, glabrous | 42. C. vernicosa. |
| Leaves 3–5 in. × ½–¾ in., lanceolate, grooved and sparingly tomentose beneath | 43. C. Campbellensis. |
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.
South Island: Canterbury—Mountains above Arthur's Pass, T.F.C. Westland—Kelly's Hill, Petrie! Otago—Mountains near Lake Harris, Kirk! Mount Alta, Buchanan! Mount Aspiring, Petrie! near Mount Earnslaw, H.J. Matthews! 3000–5000 ft. December–February.
A very remarkable plant, easily recognised by the stout branching stem, densely clothed with imbricating leaves. Its only near ally is the following species.
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.
South Island: Nelson—Ravines on Mount Peel, alt. 4000–5000 ft., T.F.C.
Nearest to C. Walkeri, but distinguished by the smaller size, smaller narrower and more silky leaves with revolute margins, and by the smaller heads.
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,
