A. Res shu Cie. . T+ &1 C440) 279, 
Aciphylla.| UMBELLIFERAE. 661 
gradually narrowed into rigid spinous points, margins rough with minute: 
serrulations; sheaths broad, produced above on each side into a long 
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new species. 
Aciphylla scott-thomsonii, Ckn. & Allan. 
South Is. Mt. Maungatua, Powder Hill, 
Flagstaff, Swampy Hill. 
"Glosely allied to A. colensoi, but is 
distinguished by its constant glaucous colour, 
thinner linear-laceolata leaves, with well- 
marked mid-ribs." 
T.N.Z.I. vol. 56, ps 49. Ckn. & Allan. 
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3. A. Traversii Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 729.—Stem stout, 
erect, 1-3 ft. high, 1-2in. diam. at the base, grooved, purplish below. 
Radical leaves numerous, 6—30 in. long, pinnate ; leaflets 2-4 pairs, 4—15 in.. 
long, }-+in. broad, narrow-linear, pungent-pointed, coriaceous, *piate, 
conspicuously transversely articulate, margins smooth or nearly gp ; petioles 
4-10 in. long, sheaths broad, terminated by 2 short spines aboWejj, Bracts 
with a broad rather membranous sheath tipped with a simple or 3=4wllepflet ; 
lobes hardly pungent. Umbels very numerous, solitary or two together in 
the axils of the bracts; males on peduncles 1—5 in. long, forming a rather 
open panicle ; females on much shorter stalks and inflorescence much more 
dense. Flowers often polygamous. Fruit narrow linear-oblong, 2 in, long ; 
carpels one 4-winged and the other 3-winged. Vittae 1—2 in the interspaces. 
and 3-5 on the commissural face.—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 208 ; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 210. Gingidium Traversu F. Muell. Veg. Chath. Is.. 
(1864) 18. 
CHATHAM Isnanps: H. H. Travers, G. Mar, F. A. D. Cow! T'aramea. 
November—December. 
Closely allied to A. Colensoi, from which it principally differs in the less rigid and 
transversely jointed leaf-segzments, thinner and scarcely pungent bracts, and narrower 
fruit. 
4. A. intermedia Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xliv (1912) 180.—Stems 
erect, 15-24 in. high, stout, often 1 in. diam. at the base, strongly grooved. 
Radical leaves numerous, 9-15 in. long, 2—3-pinnate ; pinnae 4-6 pairs ; 
ultimate leaflets crowded, narrow-linear, 4-4 1n. broad, rigid and coriaceous, 
grooved, gradually narrowed into spinous points; margins thickened, 
minutely erose. Sheaths broad, produced at the top on each side into a long 
rarely pinnately divided spinous point. Inflorescence a narrow-oblong 
