tomentum; bracts 4–6, linear or linear-spathulate. Heads about ¾ in. diam.; involucral bracts numerous, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, scarious, shining, sparingly cottony or almost glabrate. Rays numerous, spreading. Achene glabrous.
South Island: Nelson—Mount Rochfort, Mount Frederic, and other localities near Westport, Townson! 2000–3000 ft. January–March.
A puzzling plant, which seems nearer to C. spectabilis than to any other species, although very different in appearance. In some respects it approaches C. parva, which, however, is a much smaller and more slender plant, with an almost filiform and nearly glabrous scape, and with much smaller heads and hispid achenes.
22. C. verbascifolia, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 121.—A large handsome species. Root stout, as thick as the thumb. Leaves 8–20 in. long or more including the petiole, 1½–3in. broad, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate or spathulate-lanceolate, acute, narrowed into the petiole, coriaceous, glabrous or slightly cottony above but with woolly margins, beneath clothed with soft white or buff tomentum, entire or very obscurely serrulate; petiole as long as the blade, narrow, broader and sheathing at the base, grooved, densely woolly or almost glabrous. Scapes longer than the leaves, densely woolly; bracts numerous, linear or linear-spathulate, tomentose, the lowest sometimes 4 in. long. Heads about 4 in. diam.; involucral bracts narrow-linear, densely and softly woolly. Ray-florets slender; tube of corolla of disc-florets thickened below. Achene linear, glabrous, hardly equalling the pappus.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 132; Kirk, Students' Fl. 285.
South Island: Otago—Milford Sound and Port Preservation, Lyall (Handbook); Waitaki Valley, Horse Ranges, Flag Swamp, Macrae's, Petrie! Kirk! Sea-level to 2000 ft. December–February.
I have seen no specimens from the localities where the species was originally discovered by Lyall, and it is quite possible that the plant from the Waitaki Valley, &c., on which the above description is founded, may not be the same. It has been reported from Campbell Island, but I think erroneously.
23. C. Brownii, F. R. Chapm. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii. (1890) 444.—Leaves 6–10 in. long including the petiole, 1–2 in. broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowed into the petiole, coriaceous, quite entire or very obscurely denticulate, glabrous or sparingly pubescent above, beneath clothed with rather thin white or greyish-white tomentum; petiole shorter than the blade, tomentose. Scapes 6–14 in. long or more, tomentose; bracts linear, obtuse, almost villous. Heads 1–2 in. diam.; involucral bracts linear-subulate, villous towards the tips. Rays numerous, narrow, spreading. Achene sparingly silky.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 286.
South Island: Otago—Mystery Pass, between Lake Manapouri and Smith Sound, Chapman; Clinton Valley, Lake Te Anau, Petrie!
