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Soutn Istanp: Otago—Mount Alta, Buchanan / Hector Mountains and hill near 
Mount Aspiring, Petrie / The Remarkables, near Lake Wakatipu, J. Speden ! 
Remarkable for its excessively rigid and coriaceous habit, broad flat leaves with 
narrow membranous sheaths, and compact panicle with rigid erect bracts. 
90. A. Traillii 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi (1884) 371.—Small, 
tufted, perfectly glabrous, 3-8 in. high, somewhat flaccid when fresh. Leaves 
2-5 in. long or more, usually 3-foliolate, but sometimes quite simple, rarely 
pinnate with 2 pairs of leaflets and a terminal one ; leaflets 1-3in. long., 
tin. broad, narrow-linear, pungent-pointed, rigid and coriaceous when 
dry, striate, margins thickened ; sheath narrow, membranous. Flowering 
stem slender, often flexuous. Bracts simple or trifoliolate, pungent-pointed. 
Male umbels distant or crowded, on short or long peduncles ; females much 
smaller, concealed in the inflated sheaths of the bracts. Fruit linear-oblong, 
gst in. long; carpels 5-ribbed. Vittae 1 or rarely 2 in the interspaces, 
2 or 4 on the commissural face.—Students’ Fl. (1899) 210; Cheesem. Man. 
NZ, Fl. (1906) 211. 
Var. cartilaginea ‘Cheesem.—Leaves with broad yellow canaliculate midribs and 
much thickened yellow margins.—A. cartilaginea Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlvii 
(1915) 47. 
Stewart IstanpD: Mount Anglem and Mount Rakiahua, 7. Kirk / Var. carto- 
laginea: Mount Rakiahua, Goyen, Petrie/ Fraser Peaks, Ff. R. Chapman, Thomson, 
Peirie ! 2500-3500 ft. 
Combined with Petrie’s A. cartilaginea, this forms a distinct species. Mr. Kirk 
considered it to be “‘ nearly allied to A. Lyallii,” but it is far removed from my conception 
of that plant. 
21. A. Poppelwelli Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. li (1921) 369.—Small, 
densely tufted at the base, often forming fair-sized clumps. Leaves 
numerous, densely crowded at the base of the stem, 2-5 in. long, usually 
3-foliolate, but in small specimens frequently simple, and in larger ones 
occasionally bearing 2 pairs of leaflets with a terminal one; leaflets 
14-4in. long, ~;-+in. wide, narrow-linear, narrowed upwards into a 
pungent point, thick and coriaceous, striate, margins much thickened ; 
petiole short; sheath longer than the petiole, membranous. Flowering 
stems as long as or longer than the leaves, stout for the size of the plant ; 
inflorescence a dense oblong spike 1-4in. long; bracts very numerous, 
densely crowded, 3-foliolate, leaflets rigid, pungent-pointed, often reddish- 
orange. Umbels shortly stalked, densely compacted within the axils of the 
bracts. Fruit not seen quite ripe, linear-oblong. 
Var. major Petrie /.c.—Flowering stem much longer and stouter, far exceeding the 
leaves. 
SoutH Istanp: Otago—Mount Kveburn, Petrie’ Rock and Pillar Range, Bb. C. 
Aston! A. Wall; Garvie Mountains, Poppelwell! J. Speden! W. KH. Thomson ! 
Cockayne. Var. major: Mount Ida Range, Peirie / 32000-4500 ft. 
Very closely allied to A. Trailtiz, principally differing in the straight (not flexuous) 
flowering stem, far more numerous hracts, smaller and more compactly arranged 
umbels, and in the much more coriaceous habit. 
22. A. congesta Cheesem.in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlvu (1915) 44.—-Formine 
Jarge hemispherical simple or branched masses 6-12in. diameter; root- 
stock often as thick as the thumb, branched at the top. Leaves very 
numerous, 40-50 or more, all radical and crowded round the base of the 
