Bidwilliane. N. O. Umbellifere. 
TABS. DCVII, DCVIII. 
ACIPHYLLA sQuaRROSA. Forst. 
Gen. Cuar. Aciphylla, G, Forst.—Calycis margo 5-dentatus 
dentibus deciduis vel demum obsoletis. Petala quinque, 
ovata, acuta, unguiculata, apice acumine inflexa. _ Fructus 
oblongus, sectione transversali subteres. Mericarpia dissimilia, 
hine jugis 4, illine jugis tribus, omnibus alte alatis, lateralibus 
marginantibus. Vallecule et commisura multivitattee. —Herba 
Ligusticum Aciphylla. Spreng. in Schult. Syst. Veget. 6, p. 554. 
De Cand. Prodr. 4, p.159. A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 274. 
A. Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Hist, 2. p. 212. 
Laserpitium Aciphylla. Linn, Fil. Suppl. p.181. Forst. Prodr. 
da i 
p..22, 
Han. New Zealand, Middle Island ; Shores of Queen Char- 
lotte’s Sound; G. Forster. Southern extremity of the 
Northern Island, in great abundance 3 and the alpine interior ; 
Mr, Bidwiil. Roratonga ; Mr. Colenso, 
One of the most remarkable of umbelliferous plants, with a 
dense flowering spike, often four feet high. Sprengel and De 
it, “mericarpia tricostata”” In all the 
its that I haye examined, one 
other four, or in other words, 
side of the fruit, 2 on the 
« fruc 
correct; the approximate 
; out of the five angles or 
wings. ‘This circumstance, together with a peculiar habit, has 
induced me to restore the old genus Aciphylla. 
Fig. 1. Fructified spike, Jf. 2. Lower leaf; nat. size. f. 
Fruit. £4. The same, Separating. /.5. Transverse section of 
the mericarps :—maynified 
