660 UMBELLIFERAE. [Aciphylla. 
HK, Forming large or small, simple or branched masses 4-12 in. diam. Leaves exces- 
sively rigid and coriaceous, pungent, smooth and polished. Umbels forming a terminal 
globose head. 
Leaves very densely imbricating, 4-8 in. long, pinnatelv divid-° 
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bracts; male inflorescence much more lax than the female. Bracts with 
broad sheaths and a 3—5-partite limb, the middle segment much the longest, 
not refracted. Hlowers white ; calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit oblong, }-4 in. 
long; carpels usually one 4-winged the other 3-winged, but sometimes 
both 4-winged or both 3-winged. Vittae 2-4 in the interspaces and 5-6 
on the commissural face.— Lindsay Contr. N.Z. Bot. (1868) 49, t. 1; 
T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 207; Cheesem. Man. N.Z, Fl. (1906) 208. 
A. squarrosa var. 6 latifolia Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 88. , , 
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( Var. conspieua( 7’ Kirk le. Leat-segments ‘not so rigid, with a broad orange or “~ 
red midrib. Bracts bright-orange, often pinnately divided. 
( Var.\maxima T. Kirk Le STa er and stouter, 4-10 ft, high or even more, 2-4 in. 
diam. at the base. Leaves 14-5 ft. long; segments 2 in. broad or even more, still more. 
rigid and pungent. Peduncles and pedicels longer. Fruit larger, 2in. long. 
North AND Soutu Istanps: Common in mountain districts from the East Cape 
to Southland ; most abundant between 1000-3000 ft., but ascending to nearly 5000 ft., 
and occasionally coming down to sea-level. Var. conspicua; North Island: Locality 
not stated, Herb. Colenso/ Ruahine Mountains, W. F. Howlett / South Island: Wanga- 
peka, Kingsley; Mount Murchison, W. Townson! Upper Waimakariri, Cockayne / 
fF ain 2+ Var. maxima: Mountain districts from Nelson to Otago, not uncommon. 
Taramea ; Spaniard. December—January. 
By far the finest species of the genus; easily distinguished from all others by the 
large size and broad leaf-segments. The two varieties described above have a very 
distinct appearance, but the differences are hardly of specific value. At the Broken. 
River, Canterbury, I have measured a specimen of var. maxima'nearly 13 ft, high, 
2. A. squarrosa Forst. Char. Gen. (1776) 136, t. $2 stem tall, stout, 
erect, 2-6 ft. high, 2-4in. diam. below, deeply grooved, surrounded at the 
base by the numerous spreading spinous-pointed leaves. Radical leaves 
1-3 ft. long, 2-3-pinnate; ultimate leaflets crowded, 6-12 in. long or more, 
very narrow-linear, 4-}in. broad, coriaceous and rigid, deeply striate, 
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