208 UMBELLIFERZ. [Actphylla. - 
A. Leaves rigid and coriaceous, pungent-pointed. Fruit small, p 5-4 in., subterete 
or slightly compressed. 
* Tall and stout, 2-5ft. or more. Inflorescence a dense linear-oblong 
panicle, often several feet in length. 
2-8 ft. high. Leaves 1-2-pinnate; leaflets broad, +in., 
excessively rigid and spinous. Middle lobe of bract not 
refracted .. .. 1. A. Colensor. 
2-6 ft. high. Leaves 9-3. pinnate ; leaflets narrow, 4-hin. 
broad. Middle lobe of bract refracted 2. A. squarrosa. 
1-3 ft. high. Leaves pinnate; leaflets }-4 in. broad, trans- 
versely jointed. Fruit narrow linear-oblong .. .. 3. A. Traversn. 
** Small, 4-18in. high, rarely more. Male inflorescence paniculate ; female - 
much contracted, almost concealed in the sheaths of the bracts. 
4-12in. high. Leaves 1-2-pinnate; leaflets almost squar- 
rose, very short, 4-3 in. long, flat, grooved above : 
12-24 in. high, polished and shining. Leaves pinnate ; 
leaflets 3-9 in. long, 7-4 in. broad .. 
10-16 in. high. Leaves trifoliolate; leaflets 14 in. long, 
4. A. Hookert. 
5 
a-3i in. broad 6 
if 
. Lyallii. 
3-7 in. high. Leaves trifoliolate or _simple ; leaflets 
1-2 in. long, 4-4 in. broad .. 
6-12in. high, excessively rigid and coriaceous. Leaves 
4-9 in., simple or forked or 3-fid; segments #-3in. broad 8. A. Kirkit. 
*** Small, 4-18in. high. Both male and female inflorescence broad and‘ 
paniculate. 
Leaves coriaceous, pinnate or Paes at the base; 
A 
A 
. A. Hectort. 
A 
. Traillii. 
leaflets 4,4 in. broad 5b .. 9. A. Monrot. 
Leaves firm but hardly coriaceous, 2- 3. pinnate ; leaflets 
3y-ap in. wide se 3° 36 oe .. 10. A: polita. 
**«** Small, densely tufted, 3-4in. high. Umbels few, terminal, forming a 
globose head. 
Leaves densely imbricating, 3-fid Mw ae .. 11. A. Dobsoni. 
Leaves densely imbricating, quite entire cfs .. 12. A. simplex. 
B. Leaves flaccid. Fruit large, 4-$in. long, oblong, much compressed ; carpels’ 
broadly 3- or 2-winged. 
Stout, 2-3ft. high. Leaves 3-4-pinnate. Inflorescence 
loosely paniculate .. js ad as .. 13. A. Dieffenbachii. - 
1. A. Colensoi, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 92.—Stem stout, 
erect, 2-5 ft. high, 2-3in. diam. at the base, deeply grooved. 
Radical leaves numerous, forming a circle of bayonet-like spikes 
round the base of the stem, 1-24 ft. long, pinnate or 2-pinnate at 
the base, with few secondary leaflets; leaflets 5-15in. long, + 
wide or more, narrow-linear, acuminate, terminating in a long and. 
stout spine, excessively thick and coriaceous, rigid, striate, margins 
rough with minute serrulations ; sheaths broad, sometimes quite 
2 in. across, very thick and coriaceous, produced on each side above 
into a spinous simple or forked narrow-linear leaflet 2-6 in. long. 
Inflorescence a narrow - oblong cylindrical panicle composed of 
numerous umbels on branched peduncles springing from the axils. 
