664 UMBELLIFERAE. [Aciphylla. 
J. B. Armstrong in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii (1881) 336; TL. Kirk Students’ 
Fil. (1899) 208. A. Lyallii var. crenulata Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
211. 
Soutu Istanp: Nelson—Mount Arthur Plateau, 7. F. C.; Mount Owen, W. 
Townson. Canterbury—Waimakariri Glacier, J. D. Enys, T. Kirk, T. F. C., Hill's 
Peak, Cockayne / mountains above Arthur’s Pass, 7’. J’. C. ; Browning’s Pass, Haast ; 
Upper Rakaia Valley, J. B. Armstrong ; Sealey Range, Mount Cook district, 7. F. C. 
2500-5000 ft. December—February. ) 
Near to A. Lyallit, from which it is separated by the slender and more flaccid 
habit, more leafy panicle, and longer leaf-segments. 
9. A. Townsoni Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 1138. — Erect, slender, 
smooth and grassy, often somewhat flaccid, 6-12in. high. Radical 
leaves numerous, very slender, 3-9in. long, pinnate or bipinnate at 
the base; leaflets 2-4 pairs, very narrow, $in. long, .4,-:/,in. broad, 
usually flaccid but tipped by a short spinous point; margins minutely 
crenulate ; petioles long, with broad membranous sheathing bases. Scape — 
short, leafy; bracts very numerous, usually more rigid than the leaves, 
with broad membranous sheathing bases and a trifoliolate or pinnately 
divided lamina, Male umbels numerous, compound, on long slender spread- 
ing peduncles ; females much fewer and smaller, on shorter erect peduncles, 
almost concealed in the broad membranous bract-sheaths. Fruit linear- 
oblong, about sin. long; carpels 3-5-winged.—IIl. N.Z. Fl. i (1914) t. 62. 
— at ICUs) OG 
SoutH Istanp: Nelson — Mount Faraday, Mount Buckland, and the Lyell 
Mountains, alt. 3000-4500 ft., W. Townson / December—February. 
The nearest ally of this species appears to be A. Lyallii. But it is amply distinct 
in the much more slender and more flaccid habit, and in the extremely narrow leaf- 
segments, which do not exceed 54, in. diam. and in some cases are even narrower. Nec 
other species of Aciphylla, in fact, has such narrow leaves. 
10. A. similis Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlvii (1915) 42.—Stout, 
smooth, simple, 6-15in. high. Leaves 10-20, outer spreading, inner 
suberect, 3-10in. long, regularly pinnate, never bipinnate at the base ; 
leaflets 4-10 pairs, 1-3in. long, 4-+in. broad, narrow-linear, rigid, flat, 
striate, narrowed at the apex into a short pungent point; midrib usually 
evident ; margins thickened and cartilaginous ; sheaths smooth, flattened, 
furnished at the top with a rigid spine on each side 4-lin. long. Peduncle 
or flowering stem considerably exceeding the leaves, rather stout. Male 
inflorescence of numerous compound umbels forming an open panicle, 
2-5in, long; bracts with broad sheathing bases tipped with a small 
pinnate leaf. Rays of the primary umbels 8-15, }-4in. long; of the 
secondary umbels about the same number. Flowers white. Fruit about 
$ in. long, linear-oblong. Carpels 3-5-winged. 
SoutH Istanp: Mountains of Canterbury, Westland, and Otago, probably not 
uncommon, but distribution of the species somewhat uncertain, on account of its 
having been confounded with A. Monroi. Peaty bogs on Arthur’s Pass, and near the 
Waimakariri Glacier, 7. F. C.; Upper Rakaia Valley, J. D. Enys/ summit of the 
Griffin Range, Teremakau Valley, P. G. Morgan! Mount Dick, near Kingston, 
Cockayne! Garvie Mountains, Poppelwell / The Remarkables, near Lake Wakatipu, 
J. Speden! Lorn Peak, Hector Mountains, Cockayne / 3000-5000 ft. 
This differs from A. Monroi in the leaves never being bipinnate, which they 
often are in A. Monroi; in the leaflets being longer and broader and flatter; in the 
stouter peduncle or flowering stem; and in the more highly developed and broader 
sheathing bases of the bracts. 
