available; to complete the plate a drawing by Miss J. J. 
Clark of ripe fruits, collected by Sir J. D. Hooker, and one 
of a transverse section of the same, have been added. The 
genus Aciphylla is in some regards the southern representa- 
tive of the northern Ligusticum, and Mr. Hemsley has 
followed the “Genera Plantarum ” of Bentham and Hooker 
in referring this plant to the former rather than the latter 
genus. This course has also been adopted by Dr. Cockayne, 
whose personal knowledge of the islands in which it occurs 
is so extensive. But the Umbelliferae of New Zealand 
stand in need of generic revision, and Mr. Cheeseman has 
suggested, with some reason, that the genus Anisotome, 
proposed many years ago by Sir J. D. Hooker, should be 
revived for the accommodation of A. latifolia and its 
undoubted congeners. 
Drscriprion.—Ierb, almost everywhere glabrous, poly- 
gamo-dicecious or dicecious. Stem stout, 3-7 ft. high, 4-5 
in. thick at the base, furrowed, densely branched upwards, 
many-flowered. Leaves thick, leathery, the radical long- 
stalked, 1-2 ft. long, ovate, twice pinnatisect ; segments 
ovate-lanceolate, decurrent, with spinulous tips, their 
margins thickened; veins rather conspicuous; petioles of 
the leaves of the inflorescence very broad, sheathing, 
cymbiform, with few apical segments or teeth. Umbels 
compound, axillary and terminal, stipitate, rather longer 
than the leaves, many-branched, 24-4 in. across. Bracts 
linear, acute, about as long as the stout umbel-branches. 
Braeteoles like the bracts but smaller, rather longer than 
the flowers. Secondary umbels many-flowered. flowers 
purple. Calyx-teeth conspicuous, deltoid, unequal. Petals 
ovate, thickened in the centre, longitudinally ribbed, 
recurved at the tip. Carpels usually subequally 5-winged, 
sometimes only 3-4-winged; valleculae 1-vittate, vittae 
wide ; commissure 2-vittate, narrow. 
Fig. 1, a cluster of male flowers; 2, calyx and rudimentary pistil; 3, a petal; 
4, fruit; 5, the same magnified ; 6, section of a ripe fruit; 7, sketch of an entire 
oe enlarged except 4 which is of natural size and 7 which és ull 
reduced. 
