involucral bracts subulate-lanceolate, acute, glandular and silky, margins often scarious. Rays numerous, narrow, ⅓ in. long. Achene linear, silky.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 281.
Var. villosa, Cheesem.—Leaves densely clothed on both surfaces with soft spreading glandular hairs.
South Island: Nelson—Mount Arthur, Rev. F. H. Spencer! T.F.C.; mountains near Lake Guyon, H. H. Travers; Mount Rochfort, Townson! Westland—Mountains near Greymouth, Helms! Var. villosa: Mount Murchison, Buller Valley, Townson! 3000–4500 ft. December–January. A very singular species, quite unlike any other.
6. C. holosericea, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 36.—Leaves all radical, spreading, 6–12 in. long, 1½–2½ in. broad, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or spathulate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, narrowed to the base, thinly coriaceous, glabrous above, clothed with thin appressed white tomentum beneath, midrib and principal veins distinct on both surfaces; margins flat, distantly acutely serrate; petiole broadly sheathing, glabrous, smooth and shining, grooved. Scapes few, 1–2 ft. long, slender, glabrous; bracts usually several, 1–1½ in. long, linear, wiiite beneath. Heads large, 2–3 in. diam. or more; involucral bracts in several series, sometimes 1 in. long; inner narrow-linear, glabrous, usually viscid; outer broader, lanceolate, tomentose on the back. Ray-florets very numerous, with long narrow ligules. Achene pilose.—Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 121, t. 31; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 130; Kirk, Students' Fl. 282. Aster holosericeus, Forst. Prodr. n. 296; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 248; A. Cunn. Prodr. n. 438.
South Island: Dusky Bay, Forster, Hector and Buchanan! Jackson's Bay, Buchanan! Port Preservation, Lyall; Clinton Saddle and mountains west of Lake Te Anau, Petrie! Sea-level to 4000 ft. December–January.
7. C. Dallii, Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv. (1882) 355, t. 35.—Leaves numerous, all radical, spreading, 4–8 in. long, 1–2 in. broad, narrow obovate-oblong or obovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute or apiculate, narrowed to the base and then expanded into a broad grooved membranous sheathing petiole, coriaceous, glabrous above, clothed with appressed pale-buff tomentum beneath; margins flat, sharply minutely serrate. Scapes 1–6, 6–18 in. long, rather stout, glabrous; bracts usually numerous, large, 1–2 in. long, leafy, clothed with buff tomentum beneath, usually several are aggregated under the head, forming a spurious involucre. Heads large, 1½–2½ in. diam.; involucral bracts in several series, narrow-linear; inner cottony, outer slightly tomentose, viscid. Rays numerous, rather narrow. Achene pilose.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 282.
South Island: Nelson—Mountains at the head of the Aorere River, Dall! Mount Arthur Plateau, Rev. F. H. Spencer! T.F.C.; Mount Rochfort, Spencer! Townson! 3000–5000 ft. December–January.
A handsome plant, closely allied to C. holosericea, but distinguished by the smaller size, more coriaceous leaves with buff, not white, tomentum, and especially by the large leafy bracts.
