Aciphylla. | UMBELLIFERAE. 671 
24. A. Dobsoni Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 93.—Stout, smooth 
and shining, forming compact yellowish-brown patches 3-9in. diam. 
Rootstock thick and woody, branched at the top. Leaves all radical, 
very numerous, densely imbricated, excessively thick and coriaceous, 13—4 in. 
long; sheaths 4-14in. or more, #in. broad ; leaflets 3 at the top of the 
sheath, about equal, 1-2in. long, 4in. broad at the base, linear-subulate 
or dagger-shaped, rigid, concave, transversely jointed, keeled at the back 
towards the top, pungent-pointed. Flowering stem very stout, almost as 
thick as the little finger, grooved: Umbels 4-5, clustered at the top of 
the stem, forming a capitate inflorescence ; peduncles short, thick. Fruiting- 
umbels densely packed, forming a rounded head lin. in diam. or more. 
Fruit linear-oblong, 4in. long; carpels 4-5-winged, but not seen quite 
ripe.—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 210; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
213. 
SoutH Istanp: Canterbury—Summit of Liebig Range, J. C. Andersen ; Mount 
Dobson, Dobson and Haast, T. F.C. ; mountains above Lake Ohau, Buchanan! Otago— 
Near Lake Hawea, Haast ; Mount Jones, Cockayne ; Mount St. Bathan’s, Petrie! The 
Remarkables, near Lake Wakatipu, W. EH. Thomson / 5000-6500 ft. December— 
February. —T 7H APA hon : 
Usually found on shingle-slopes. A most remarkable plant, nowhere plentiful, 
and seldom seen in flower or fruit. 
25. A. simplex Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii (1890) 440.— Very 
similar to A. Dobsoni, and with precisely the same habit, but differing 
in the leaves, which are quite entire, 14-4in. long; lower 4 gradually 
expanded into a broad rounded sheath, which is thin and membranous at 
the base, with the surface covered with numerous parallel ribs, and which 
is sometimes as much as $in. diam. ; blade linear-subulate, rigid and coria- 
ceous, concave above, rounded beneath, tip obtuse with a very short 
pungent mucro, more or less transversely jointed and often longitudinally 
grooved, midrib usually evident, margins thickened. Flowering stem 
stout, slightly exceeding the leaves; umbels 4-6, peduncles variable in 
length, }-lin.; bracts 4-6, oblong-lanceolate, acute ; secondary umbels 
3-y1n. diam., globose ; flowers densely packed. Ripe fruit not seen.— 
T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 211; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 214. 
SoutH Istanp: Otago—Mounts Pisa and Cardrona and the Hector Mountains, 
Petrie! Garvie Mountains, Poppelwell! The Remarkables, near Lake Wakatipu, 
J. Speden ! 5000-6000 ft. December—February. 77: TN Guy) Ae , 
11. COXELLA Cheesem. and Hemsl. Karovluit yor. 
A glabrous perennial herb. Leaves pinnately decompound; segments 
linear, flat, flaccid, not spinescent. Umbels compound, axillary, stalked, 
arranged in a panicle. Involucral bracts few, small, narrow-lanceolate. 
Flowers white. Calyx-teeth somewhat prominent. Petals broad, with a 
short inflexed point. Fruit broadly oblong, dorsally compressed, equally 
5-winged ; wings broad, thin, membranous. Carpels one 3-winged, the 
other 2-winged. Vittae large, 1 or 2 in the interspaces, and 2 or 3 on the 
commissural face. Carpophore 2-partite. 
A very remarkable plant, which has been placed by turns in the genera Gingidium, 
Ligusticum (or Anisotome), Angelica, and Aciphylla. From Anisotome it differs markedly 
in the flattened and conspicuously winged fruit, one carpel being 3-winged and the 
other 2-winged, or very rarely both carpels may be 3-winged. From Angelica it is 
