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Aciphylla.] 5. A. Lyallii, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 92.—Erect, smooth and shining. Stems 1–2 ft. high or more, ⅓–⅔ in. diam. at the base, deeply grooved. Leaves numerous, 4–12 in. long, pinnate; leaflets 5–9, 3–9 in. long, $1⁄12$–$1⁄5$ broad, very narrow-linear, acuminate, gradually narrowed into spinous points, rigid and coriaceous, striate; margins minutely serrulate; sheaths rather narrow, produced at the top into two long spines. Inflorescence forming a linear-oblong spike-like panicle. Bracts with broad sheaths and 3–5 spinous leaflets. Male umbels on slender peduncles 1–3 in. long; female on much shorter peduncles, almost concealed in the sheaths of the bracts. Fruit narrow-oblong, $1⁄5$ in. long; carpels 4–5-winged. Vittæ 1–2 in the interspaces, 2–4 on the commissural face.—''Hemsl. in Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 2556; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 209. A. montana, ''Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' iv. (1872) 290.

6. A. Hectori, ''Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xiv. (1882) 346, t. 27.—Stem 10—16 in. high, stout, deeply grooved. Leaves numerous, 3—6 in. long, trifoliolate or rarely pinnate with 2 pairs of leaflets;, leaflets 1½—4 in. long, $1⁄6$–$1⁄5$ in. broad, narrow-linear, suddenly narrowed into a spinous point, smooth, rigid and coriaceous, striate: margins thickened, entire or serrulate; sheaths long, narrow] produced at the top into 2 very long leaflets almost equalling the leaves proper. Inflorescence forming a contracted spike-like panicle 2–5 in. long. Male umbels on slender peduncles; female on much shorter ones, crowded in the axils of the bracts. Bracts with long narrow sheaths and 3 narrow spinous leaflets. Carpels linear-oblong, 3–5-winged.

7. A. Traillii, ''T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xvi. (1884) 371.—Small, 3–7 in. high, clothed below with the bases of the old leaves. Leaves 2–4 in. long, simple or 3-foliolate, or rarely pinnate with 2 pairs of leaflets and a terminal one; leaflets 1–3 in. long, $1⁄12$–$1⁄8$ in.