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lets narrow, sword-shaped, rigid, pungent, striate, 4-6 in. long, i- -§• broad, 
quite smooth. Inflorescence long and contracted, female umbels almost con- 
cealed in the tumid sheaths of the bracts ; male umbels on spreading, branched, 
slender peduncles, with subulate involucral leaves ; bracts with 3 suberect leaf- 
lets, the middle one sometimes spreading. Fruit small, jt in. long, both car- 
pels 5 -winged. 
Middle Island: Dusky Bay, By all ; Rangitata range, Ashburnham glacier, etc., alt. 
3-5000 ft., Sinclair and Haast ; Otago, lake district, alpine, Hector and Buchanan. 
4. A. Munroi, Hook. f. FI. N. Z. ii. 330. Small, rarely 1 ft. high, 
more flaccid than the preceding, perfectly smooth and shining. Leaves nu- 
merous, 3-5 in. long, pinnate, rarely 2-pinnate at the base; leaflets 1-2 in. 
long, i in. broad, linear, pungent, midrib obscure ; sheath linear, with one 
subulate leaflet on the top on each side. Scape rather slender. Umbels 
in an open branched panicle, compound. Bracts spreading, with linear sheaths 
and 1-3 spreading subulate leaflets. Fruit small, -L in. long, narrow ; carpels 
some 5 -winged, a few 3 -winged. 
Middle Island : Macrae’s Run, and other exposed alpine places, alt. 4500 ft., Munro ; 
Awatere, Sinclair ; Discovery Peak, 5800 ft., Travers ; alps of Canterbury, not uncommon 
near glaciers, alt. 3000-6500 ft., Haast ; Otago, lake district, subalpine, Hector and 
Buchanan. 
5. A. Dobsoni, Foolc. /., n. sp. Very robust, a span high, perfectly 
smooth and glabrous, yellow-brown when dry. Leaves (radical) very nume- 
rous, consisting of a broad sheath, ljr-2 in. long and f in. broad, bearing 3 
erect, rigid, very thick, subulate or dagger-shaped, rather concave, jointed 
leaflets, 1 in. long, and | in. broad at the base, pungent and keeled at the back 
towards the apex. Flowering-stem as thick as the little finger, terete, striate, 
bearing at the top 2 small leaves like the radical, and 5 peduncled, densely 
capitate, globular umbels of fruit. Peduncles unequal, f~l^ in. long, stout, 
grooved. Umbels (or heads) 1 in. diam., compound, both peduncles and pe- 
dicels very short and thick. Fruits densely packed, mixed with short, subu- 
late, involucral leaves, linear-oblong, | in. long. Calyx-teeth rather large, 
unequal. Carpels usually with 5 narrow wings. 
Middle Island : summit of Mount Dobson, near Lake Tekapo, alt. 7500 ft., Dobson and 
Haast ; amongst shingle on the summits of the ranges near Lake Hawea, alt. 6000 ft., 
Haast. A most remarkable plant, of which more specimens are required to make a good 
specific character. 
8. LIGUSTICUM, Linn. 
Glabrous, perennial, erect, often large and robust, aromatic or rank-smell- 
ing herbs. Leaves pinnate or decompound, the rhachis jointed at the inser- 
tion of the leaflets. Umbels compound, panicled, polygamous ; involucral 
leaves few or numerous. Flowers often unisexual, white or pink, females on 
very short pedicels. — Calyx-teeth oblong ; limb obsolete, or of 5 short, often 
unequal teeth. Petals with an incurved tip. Styles long or short. Fruit 
elliptic-oblong or linear-oblong ; carpels dorsally compressed or rounded, 
with 5 nearly equal winged ridges, or one with 3 the other with 5 ridges, 
rarely each with 3 wings. 
A germs of temperat e Europe, Asia, and America, not hitherto found in South America 
