Stems creeping and rooting at the nodes, leafy, moderately stout, glabrous. Leaves in opposite pairs, connate at the base, close-set and often overlapping, 2½–3½ cm. long, 1–1¼ cm. broad, narrow elliptic-obovate, obtuse, contracted into rather broad flat petioles nearly as long as the blades, semimembranous, glabrous, delicately repando-denticulate above the middle, reddish at the edges; veins evident, diverging from the conspicuous midrib. Peduncles short, elongating in fruit, slender, near the tips of the branches; calyx-lobes lanceolate-subulate, acute, nearly equalling the rather broad slightly notched pale-red petals. Capsules glabrous, rather stout, ± 5 cm. long, when mature on slender erect peduncles about as long as the capsules; seeds obovate, 1⅓ mm. long, delicately papillose. Hab.—Antipodes Island. B. C. Aston! The above description has been drawn up from specimens grown in my garden, and raised from seed obtained from dried capsules kindly sent me by Mr. Aston, whose specimens were all past flower. 3. Celmisia semicordata sp. nov. Celmisia C. coriaceae Hook. f. affinis; differt foliis subcordatis, supra pellicula delicatissima argenteo-cinerea levi vestitis; scapis gracilioribus brevioribusque; capitulis minoribus; petalis brevioribus glaberrimisque; acheniis glabris. Leaves 15–30 cm. long, 3–5 cm. broad, oblong-lanceolate, acute or subacute, semicordate at the base, coriaceous, quite entire, with evident midrib but otherwise nerveless; above more or less furrowed longitudinally when dried, and covered with a very delicate smooth silvery or greenishgrey pellicle; below flat, more or less recurved at the edges, clothed with dense smooth closely appressed white silky tomentum; sheaths about ⅓ as long as the blades, thin, striate, narrowed above, more or less clothed with white cottony tomentum. Scapes 30–40 cm. long, slender covered with loosely appressed cottony pubescence, scarcely tomentose; bracts erect, narrow-linear, becoming shorter upwards. Heads 2½–4 cm. across, few to each tuft; involucral bracts in 2–3 series, glabrate or the outer slightly cottony, linear-subulate, brown, thickened below; petals numerous, spreading, narrow, 1¾ cm. long; tube of corolla narrow and quite glabrous. Achene 5 mm. long, glabrous, linear, ribbed, slightly compressed; pappus equalling or slightly exceeding the achene. Hob.—Buckland Peaks (near Westport), 3,300–4,000 ft.; Charleston, 30–40 ft. The Charleston specimens have much shorter and more slender scapes and smaller flower-heads than usual, while their subacute leaves exhibit remarkable variation in size, being often less than half as long as in the typical mountain form, which shows very little variation. The plant is plentiful above the bush-line on the Buckland Peaks, and at higher levels is associated with C. Armstrongii and C. Dallii.