Plate 2556. 



ACIPHYLLA LYALLII, Hook, f, 



UxMBELLIFER.E. 



A. Lyallii, Hook. f. Handb. N. Zeal. Fl. p. 92, pro maxima parte ; 

 species foliis radicalibus pinnatis nunquam trifoliolatis. 



Herba perennis, omnino glabra, caulibus subsimplicibus 1-2 ped. 

 altis. Folia rigidissiina, radicalia longe petiolata, pinnata, foliolis 

 5-9 linearibus aculeato-acuminatis ; stipulee fere aciculatse, longe 

 adnata. Flore* dioici vel polygamic in umbellas pauciradiatas dispo- 

 siti. Carpella vix alata, valleculis 1-2-vittatis, commissura 2-vittata. 



A figure of this plant has been given here, partly because leaves 

 of A. Hectori, Buchan. (Trans. New Zeal. Inst. xiv. p. 346, t. xxvii.), 

 were mixed with the original specimens and included in the description, 

 and partly because there were no good figures of the fruit of any 

 species of the genus. Mr. Thos. Kirk, Government Biologist, Welling- 

 ton, New Zealand, suspected some confusion, and we are now able to 

 clear it up at Kew. — W. Botting Hemsley. 



Fig. 1, receptacle of male flower ; 2, a ripe fruit ; 3, 4, 5, 6, transverse sections of 

 carpels. All enlarged. 



