beneath clothed with appressed white satiny tomentum; margins entire or minutely denticulate, often revolute; petiole shorter than the blade or equalling it, broad, grooved, densely clothed with loose snow-white tomentum. Scapes several, exceeding the leaves, softly cottony; bracts narrow-linear, purplish, tomentose. Heads 1–1¾ in. diam.; involucral bracts linear, acuminate, erect, glabrate or the outer cottony. Ray-florets numerous. Achenes silky, strongly grooved.—Students' Fl. 286.
South Island: Marlborough—Mount Stokes, Kirk! MacMahon! December–January.
A handsome and distinct species, allied to C. petiolata, but differing in the loose snow-white tomentum of the sheaths, the satiny under-surface of the leaves, and the thin erect almost glabrous involucral bracts.
20. C. spectabilis, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 35.—Often forming large patches. Stems stout, with the leaf-sheaths 1–2 in. diam. Leaves very numerous, crowded, rosulate; blade 3–6 in. long, ¼–¾ in. broad, narrow linear-oblong, acute or obtuse, slightly narrowed towards the base, very thick and coriaceous, glabrous or with a thin pellicle of silvery hairs above, longitudinally furrowed, beneath clothed with densely matted pale - buff or white woolly tomentum; margins recurved, entire or minutely serrulate; sheaths usually equalling the blade, inembranous, clothed on both surfaces with loose soft and silky snow-white tomentum. Scapes 1 or several, stout, much longer than the leaves, densely cottony; bracts numerous, linear. Heads about 1½ in. diam.; involucral bracts narrow linear-subulate, woolly or rarely almost glabrate, outer recurved at the tips. Rays numerous, rather short. Achene glabrous.—Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 122, t. 33; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 134; Kirk, Students' Fl. 287. C. ruahinensis, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. (1895) 388. C. mollis, Cockayne, l.c. xxxi. (1899) 423.
North Island: Mountains of the interior, from Mount Hikurangi and Lake Taupo southwards. South Island: Abundant in mountain districts in Nelson, Canterbury, and Westland; rare in Otago. 500–4500 ft. Puhaeretaiko. December–February.
Well marked by the short narrow rigid leaves, densely clothed beneath with pale-buff soft and matted not appressed woolly tomentum. Mr. Cockayne's C. mollis is a state with the tomentum not nearly so woolly, the hairs being straighter and more silky.
21. C. dubia, Cheesem. n. sp.—Forming large patches. Stems rather stout, ¼–½ in. diam. with the leaves on. Leaves 1½–3in. long, ⅓–⅔ in. broad; blade oblong or linear-oblong or lanceolate, acute at both ends, coriaceous, glabrous and furrowed above, clothed with soft white tomentum beneath, midrib distinct beneath; margins usually recurved, entire or very obscurely serrulate; petiole equalling the blade or shorter than it, slender, expanded below into a broad membranous sheath. Scapes 1 or more, 3–8 in. long, rather slender, white with loose cottony
