Umbellifere.) FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 87 
latis ternatim sectis rarius pinnatisectis, foliolis rotundato-cuneatis inciso-lobatis. Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 819 
Petroselinum, 4. Rich. Flora. A. Cunn. Prodr. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands, on rocky coasts, D’ Urville, ete. 
A much smaller and more slender plant than 4. australe, of which I believe it to be probably a state, 
growing in rocky places, with smaller and less divided leaves. Stems 6 inches to 1 foot long. Leaves 3-6 inches, 
trifoliolate, rarely pinnate; segments more or less petiolate, obovate or rounded, variously cut. Umbels as in the 
former, but more often compound and peduncled.—Very small slender specimens a good deal resemble Pozoa 
örifoliolata. 
Gen. V. ORANTZIA, Nutt. 
Fructus subrotundus, fere orbicularis; carpellis (seepe insequalibus) semiteretibus, ad commissuram 
non contractis, 5-sulcatis, 7-jugis; jugis crassis, semiteretibus; valleculis 1-vittatis. Calycis limbus obscure 
5-dentatus. Semen versus commissuram carinatum. Petala non inflexa. Umbella simplex; involucro 
parvo, oligophyllo. 
The only known species is a small, succulent, strong-smelling, inconspicuous herb, with a creeping rhizoma, 
fasciculate, fistulose, jointed leaves, and short scapes, with minute, inconspicuous, pedicellate flowers. Involucre of 
few leaves, much shorter than the pedicels. Calyx limb five-toothed. Petals without an inflexed apex. Fruit 
rounded, contracted above. Carpels semiterete, spongy, not contracted at the commissure, five-furrowed, the 
ribs thick and convex.—This plant, placed by De Candolle near Hydrocotyle, I consider allied to O/foa and 
Ginanthe. It is a common American plant from the Falkland Islands to lat. 35° S. on the east coast of South 
America, and from 30° N. to 42° N. in the United States; and it is also found in Tasmania. The leaves in South 
American specimens often become plane, linear-lanceolate and obtuse: they are always terete and hollow, with 
transverse septa. 
1. Orantzia Zineata, Nutt. DO. Prodr. v. 4. p. 10. Fl. Antarct. p. 287. t. 100. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands, in swamps and wet sand, etc. East coast, Colenso ; Nelson, 
Bidwill. 
Rhizome as thick as a crow-quill, 2-6 inches long. Leaves very variable in length (3-4 inches) and 4-2 lines 
broad. Peduncles shorter than the leaves. Umbels simple, spreading, few-flowered. 
Gen. VI. ACIPHYLLA, Forst. 
Dioica v. monoica. Fructus lineari-oblongus, alatus. Carpella plano-convexa, dissimilia, unico 3- altero 
4-jugo; jugis alatis, lateralibus marginantibus; valleculis commissuraque 2-3-vittatis; semine semitereti, 
antice planiusculo. Calycis limbus contractus, 5-dentatus. Petala apice inflexa. Umbelle parvee, axillares, 
simplices v. composite, in spicam racemumve grandem densum columnarem foliis spiniformibus reflexis 
horridum aggregate. 
A most remarkable, tall, unbranched, rigid, spinous herb, 5—7 feet high, with pinnated jointed leaves, whose 
long, grassy, rigid, pungent divisions are spread out like a fan, and with an oblong terminal raceme of many umbels, 
nestling amongst rigid recurved spinous involucral leaves. Flowers moncecious or diecious. Calyw limb contracted, 
five-toothed. Petals with an inflected apex. Fruit linear-oblong. Carpels unequal, one three- the other five-winged. 
Uinbels axillary in boat-shaped sheaths of the floral leaves, very irregular, simple or compound ; partial involucres of 
few subulate leaflets. The male flowers have no ovarium, but long stamens, are smaller, more numerous, and ar- 
ranged in more spreading and very compound irregular umbels. (Name from axis, sharp, and prov, a leaf.) 
1. Aciphylla squarrosa, Forst. Gen. t. 38. Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 607, 608. Ligusticum Aciphylla, 
DC. Prodr. A. Rich. A. Cunn. Prodr. Laserpitium, Linn. fil. Forst. Prodr. L. spinosissimum, Banks 
et Sol. MSS. et Lc. 
