acute, cordate at the base, coriaceous, entire, dull-green and glabrous above, plaited, beneath clothed with velvety ferruginous tomentum; petiole grooved, expanded into a broad sheath at the base, villous with brownish tomentum or almost glabrous, sometimes purplish. Scape 6–12 in. long, stout, clothed with ferruginous tomentum; bracts numerous, linear. Heads 1½–2 in. diam.; involucral bracts numerous, villous or almost glabrous. Rays narrow, ¾ in. long. Achene linear, glabrous, strongly ribbed, exceeding the pappus.—C. petiolata var. cordatifolia, Kirk, Students' Fl. 286.
South Island: Nelson—Mount Starveall, A. McKay! Bryant! Mount Duppa, Mount Richmond, MacMahon! January.
In the "Students' Flora" Mr. Kirk has reduced this to C. petiolata, but it differs from all the forms of that species in the broader coriaceous leaves cordate at the base, and in the dark ferruginous tomentum. In the texture of the leaves and their tomentum it approaches C. Traversii, but differs entirely in the cordate leaf-base, and in the petioles wanting the snow-white tomentum which is so characteristic a feature of that plant.
18. C. petiolata, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 134.—Leaves 4–14 in. long including the petiole, ¾–2 in. wide; blade about half the length, oblong to linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, subacute, membranous or coriaceous, entire, glabrous or silky above, beneath clothed with whitish appressed tomentum; midrib usually glabrous, purple, veins diverging; petiole purplish, grooved, more or less loosely tomentose, expanded at the base into a short sheath. Scapes usually several, 6–18 in. long, often purplish, tomentose or villous; bracts linear. Heads 1½–2½ in. diam.; involucral bracts linear-subulate, usually densely tomentose. Eay-florets numerous, with a ligule ½–¾ in. long. Achene glabrous or nearly so, strongly ribbed.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 286.
Var. rigida, Kirk, l.c.—Leaves oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, coriaceous, rigid, tomentum of under-surface white or ferruginous. Head rather larger, the rays sometimes 1 in. long.
Var. membranacea, Kirk, l.c.—Leaves narrowed at both ends, acute, membranous, glabrous on both surfaces or nearly so. Scape glabrate or pubescent. Heads rather smaller, involucral bracts glabrate.
South Island: Not uncommon in the central and western portions of the Southern Alps, from Lake Tennyson southwards to the west of Otago. Var. rigida: Stewart Island, Kirk! Var. membranacea: Clarence and Waiau Valleys, Travers! Kirk! Lyell Mountains, Townson! 2000–4500 ft. Deember–January.
Best distinguished by the almost membranous narrow-oblong leaves, with purple midribs and long and slender purple petioles.
19. C. Rutlandii, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. (1895) 329.—Leaves 3–12 in. long including the petiole, l–2½ in. broad, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute or apiculate, narrowed into the petiole, coriaceous, glabrous above or the midrib slightly cottony,
