Aciphylla.| UMBELLIFERZ. 211 
5. A. Lyallii, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 92.—EHrect, smooth and 
shining. Stems 1-2ft. high or more, 4—-%in. diam. at the base, 
deeply grooved. Leaves numerous, 4—12 in. long, pinnate; leaflets 
5-9, 3-9 in. long, ;4-+ in. broad, very narrow-linear, acuminate, gra- 
dually narrowed into spinous points, rigid and coriaceous, striate; 
margins minutely serrulate; sheaths rather narrow, produced at 
the top into two long spines. Inflorescence forming a, linear-oblong 
spike-like panicle. Bracts with broad sheaths and 3-5 spinous 
leaflets. Male umbels on slender peduncles 1-3 in. long; female 
on much shorter peduncles, almost concealed in the sheaths of 
the bracts. Fruit narrow-oblong, 4in. long; carpels 4-5-winged. 
Vittze 1-2 in the interspaces, 2-4 on the commissural face.— 
Hemsl. in Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 2556; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 209. A. 
montana, Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. iv. (1872) 290. 
Var. crenulata.—Rather taller, much less rigid and coriaceous. Leaves 
sometimes almost flaccid; margins serrulate; midrib often bright-red. In- 
florescence more open, with longer and more leafy bracts. Carpels 4-winged, or 
one 3-winged.—A. crenulata, Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 336; 
Kirk, Students’ F'l. 208. 
SourH Istanp: The typical form apparently rare. Rangitata Range and: 
Ashburnham Glacier, Haast; Mount Ida, Petrie! H. J. Matthews ! Humboldt 
Mountains, Cockayne! Var. crenulata: Not uncommon on the central and 
western slopes of the Southern Alps, from Mount Arthur, Nelson, to Lake 
Wanaka. 3000-5000 ft. December-January. 
6. A. Hectori, Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv. (1882) 346, t. 27. 
—Stem 10-16in. high, stout, deeply grooved. Leaves numerous,. 
3-6 in. long, trifoliolate or rarely pinnate with 2 pairs of leaflets ; 
leaflets 14-4 in. long, 4-4in. broad, narrow-linear, suddenly nar- 
rowed into a spinous point, smooth, rigid and coriaceous, striate : 
margins thickened, entire or serrulate; sheaths long, narrow, 
produced at the top into 2 very long leaflets almost equalling 
the leaves proper. Inflorescence forming a contracted spike-like 
panicle 2-5in. long. Male umbels on slender peduncles; female 
on much shorter ones, crowded in the axils of the bracts. Bracts 
with long narrow sheaths and 3 narrow spinous leaflets. Carpels 
linear-oblong, 3-5-winged. 
SourH Istanp: Otago—Hector’s Col, near Mount Aspiring, Buchanan ; 
Mount Kyeburn, H. J. Matthews ! 4000-5000 ft. January-February. 
Mr. Kirk reduced this to A. Lyallii in the ‘‘ Students’ Flora,” but it differs 
from that species in the trifoliolate leaves, and in the leaflets at the top of the 
leaf-sheath being almost as long as the leaves proper, whereas they do not reach 
the base of the lowest pinnule in A. Lyalliit. It is much nearer to A. Traillii 
which may be a depauperated state of it. : 
7. A. Traillii, 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi. (1884) 371.— 
Simall, 3-7 in. high, clothed below with the bases of the old leaves. 
Leaves 2-4 in. long, simple or 3-foliolate, or rarely pinnate with 
2 pairs of leaflets and a terminal one ; leaflets 1-3in. long, ,—4 in. 
