202 UMBELLIFERS. [Azorella. 
6. A. hydrocotyloides, Benth. and Hook. f. l.c.—Perfectly gla- 
brous, stout, often densely matted. Root long and woody. Stems 
creeping and rooting at the nodes and putting up tufts of leaves, 
the runners sometimes 6in. long or more. Leaves numerous, 
crowded, +-2in. diam., orbicular or orbicular-reniform, very thick 
and coriaceous, 3-5-foliolate or -partite; leaflets sessile, sometimes 
overlapping, broadly obovate-cuneate, bluntly 3-5-lobed or -crenate 
at the tip; margins thickened; petioles stout, 4-ldin. long; 
stipules narrow, entire or ciliate. Peduncles variable in length, 
solitary from the nodes of the stem or 2-4 at the top of a leaf- 
bearing scion. Umbels 4-15-flowered ; involucral bracts linear, 
obtuse. Fruit linear-oblong, tetragonous, usually shorter than the 
pedicel; carpels 5-ribbed.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 192. Pozoa hydro- 
cotyloides, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 88. 
SourH Istanp: Canterbury — Mount Torlesse, Hnys! Kirk! T. F. C.; 
Kowai River, Haast; Broken River, Enys! T. F. C.; Rangitata, Sinclair. 
Otago—Kurow Mountains and Mount St. Bathans, Petrie! 2000-4500 ft. 
December—February. 
The creeping stems and excessively coriaceous leaves are the best marks of 
this curious little plant. 
7. A. pallida, 7’. Kirk, Students’ Fl. 193. — Pale-green, per- 
fectly glabrous, smooth and shining. Rhizome creeping, leafy at 
the joints, and emitting creeping stolons. Leaves numerous, 
crowded, 4—3in. diam., orbicular or reniform, usually flaccid and 
membranous, rarely subcoriaceous, 3-foliolate or rarely 3-partite ; 
leaflets obcuneate, 3-6-lobed at the tips; petioles slender, 1-3 in. 
long; stipules laciniate. Peduncles usually shorter than the leaves, 
either bearing a single terminal umbel with a 3—4-lobed leaf at its 
base, or with 2-3 long-stalked secondary umbels springing from the 
base of the primary one; sometimes the secondary umbels develop 
1-2 tertiary ones in like manner. Umbels 4—12-flowered; invo- 
-lucral leaves linear, obtuse. Pedicels longer than the linear-oblong 
obtusely 4-angled fruits; carpels 5-ribbed.—Pozoa pallida, Kirk in 
Trans. N.Z. Inst: x. (1878) 419. 
Sout Istanp: Nelson—Mount Arthur Plateau, 7. #7. C.; Lake Rotoiti 
and Upper Wairau Valley, Kirk! T. F. C.; Lake Guyon, Kirk! Canterbury— 
Pukunui Creek, Kirk! Mount Torlesse, Petrie! Broken River, Hnys and 
MNT IPA Ors 1200-4000 ft. December—February. 
8. A. nitens, Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxv. (1893) 270.— 
Small, slender, perfectly glabrous, smooth and shining, densely 
matted. Rhizomes creeping, much branched and interlaced. Leaves 
few, minute, 4-+in. diam., 3-foliolate or 3-partite; leaflets sessile 
or shortly stalked, oblong-ovate to linear-obovate, obtuse or acute, 
entire or obscurely 2—3-toothed, rather thin, perfectly glabrous; 
petioles slender, 3-l4in. long. Peduncles as long or longer than 
