South Island: Not uncommon in alpine localities from the Wairau Valley southwards. 4000—6500 ft. January.
A very distinct plant, well marked by the short and narrow erect grooved and viscid leaves, with glabrous sheaths.
30. C. Monroi, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 133.—Leaves 3–12 in. long, ⅓–¾ in. broad, narrow linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, acute or subacute, strict, coriaceous, longitudinally grooved or plaited above and covered with a delicate pellicle of silvery hairs, beneath clothed with appressed white tomentum, often wrinkled in parallel lines when dry; margins recurved; sheaths short, densely clothed with snow-white tomentum. Scapes 1 or several, 8–16 in. long, stout, woolly and cottony; bracts numerous, linear. Head 1–2 in. diam.; involucral bracts numerous, linear-subulate, usually more or less woolly and cottony. Rays numerous, ½–¾ in. long; tube of corolla glabrous. Achene hispidulous.—Bot. Mag. t. 7496; Kirk, Students' Fl. 288.
South Island: Marlborough—Upton Downs, Awatere, Monro! Canterbury—Mount Cook district, Haast, T.F.C.; Hopkins River, Haast. 1500–4500 ft. December–January.
The above description is based upon one of Monro's original specimens from the Upton Downs, now in Mr. Petrie's herbarium, and on others which almost exactly match it collected by myself in the Mount Cook district. Most of the specimens referred to C. Monroi in New Zealand collections are nothing more than small forms of C. coriacea; but it may be distinguished from all such by the narrower and more rigid leaves, which are usually conspicuously furrowed on both surfaces, and by the smaller heads with shorter broader rays, and by the glabrous corolla-tube. The plant figured in the "Botanical Magazine" has broader softer leaves than Monro's specimen.
31. C. Adamsii, Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. (1895) 329.—Leaves 6–18 in. long including the sheaths, ½–1 in. broad, narrow linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, narrowed into an evident petiole at the top of the sheath, membranous, glabrous above, beneath clothed with soft white tomentum except the evident midrib; margins minutely denticulate, flat or slightly recurved; sheaths thin and membranous, grooved, sparingly cottony or almost glabrous. Scapes equalling or exceeding the leaves, slender, sometimes flexuose, thinly clothed with cottony tomentum; bracts short, linear. Head 1–1½ in. diam.; involucral bracts subulate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous or cottony. Rays few, spreading. Achene glabrous.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 288.
Var. rugulosa, Cheesem.—Shorter and stouter. Leaves more coriaceous, wrinkled above; sheaths more cottony. Scapes stouter, densely cottony.
North Island: Auckland—Castle Rock, Coromandel, T.F.C.; Table Mountain (Whakairi) and other hills between the Thames and Tairua, Adams! T.F.C. Var. rugulosa: Mount Manaia and hills to the north of Whangarei Harbour, Kirk! T.F.C. December–January.
