½–¾ in. long, 110–18 in. broad, linear-lanceolate, tapering from the base to a rather obtuse or subacute tip, coriaceous, somewhat rigid, green or glabrous above, beneath and on the sheaths sparsely covered with minute white lepidote scales; margins thick, revolute; midrib impressed above, much thickened and flattened beneath. Peduncles near the ends of the branches, solitary or more rarely 2 or 3, 1½–2½ in. long, slender, sparsely glandular-lepidote; bracts 8–10, small, erect, linear-oblong, obtuse. Heads ¾ in. diam.; involucral bracts linear-oblong, acute, more or less clothed with white glandular scales, inner with a tuft of cottony hairs at the tip. Ray-florets numerous, spreading. Achenes grooved, hispid.
South Island: Nelson—Mount Cobb (to the north of the Mount Arthur Plateau), F. G. Gibbs!
An interesting novelty, quite distinct from the other species of the section, and remarkable for the lepidote pubescence on the under-surface of the leaves, &c.
4. C. ramulosa, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 738.—Stems woody, procumbent, branched, 2–8 in. long; branches short, ascending or almost erect. Leaves numerous, densely imbricating, ¼–½ long, linear-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, with broad membranous sheathing bases, glabrous above, clothed with soft white tomentum beneath; margins strongly revolute. Peduncles 1 or rarely 2 at the tips of the branches, short, slender, ½–1½ in. long, glandular-tomentose; bracts 1–3, small, narrow-linear. Heads ¾–1 in. diam.; involucral bracts linear-oblong, acute, glandular-pubescent. Rays spreading, narrow. Ripe achenes not seen.—Kirk, Students Fl. 281.
South Island: Otago—Mount Pisa, Petrie! Mount Cardrona, Goyen; Mount Bonpland, H. J. Matthews! mountains above Dusky Sound, Hector and Buchanan! Reischek! mountains near Lake Hauroto, G. M. Thomson! 3000–6000 ft. January.
A very distinct little plant, much smaller than the preceding, and with smaller appressed leaves wbich are white and cottony beneath, and show no signs of the peculiar lepidote scales of G. Gibbsii.
5. C. lateralis, Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. iv. (1872) 226, t. 15.—Stems 3–12 in. long or more, slender, procumbent, woody at the base, much and closely branched, often forming compact patches; branches crowded, ascending or suberect. Leaves very numerous, densely crowded, spreading at the base but usually incurved at the tips, ¼–½ in. long, linear-subulate, acute or apiculate, flat above but slightly convex beneath, green on both surfaces, glabrous or glandular-ciliate at the margins and apex, base with a short and broad membranous slightly cottony sheath. Peduncles slender, 2–3 in. long, often numerous, terminal and lateral, glandular-pubescent or cottony; bracts linear-subulate. Heads ½–¾ in. diam.;
