204 UMBELLIFERS. (Eryngium. 
spinescent, narrowed into a broad flat petiole. Cauline leaves much 
smaller, opposite, cuneate or linear-cuneate, with fewer spinous 
teeth. Peduncles radical or from the nodes, }$-2in. long, bearing 
a single globose or broadly ovoid head 4-%in. diam. Involucral 
bracts linear or lanceolate, rigid and spinous, spreading, far exceed- 
ing the flowers. Calyx-tube densely scaly.—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 
i. 85; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 90; Benth. Fl. Austral. iii. 370. 
NortH AND SoutH IsLanps: On sandy beaches from the East Cape to the 
north of Otago, but often local. December—January. Also in Australia 
and Tasmania. 
4. ACTINOTUS, Labill. 
Annual or perennial herbs, erect and branching or low and 
densely tufted. Leaves toothed, lobed or ternately divided. 
Umbels simple, with an involucre of spreading bracts. Calyx- 
limb 5-toothed, rarely inconspicuous. Petals 5, unguiculate or 
spathulate or wanting. Ovary 1-celled, l-ovuled; styles 2, often 
united at the base. Fruit ovate, ofa single carpel, compressed from 
front to back ; ribs 5, often obscure. 
A small genus of about 10 species, confined to Australia and New Zealand. 
It is remarkable for the 1-celled ovary and single carpel of the fruit. 
1. A. novee-zealandiz, Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 
324.—Small, densely tufted. Stems creeping, interlaced and matted, 
forming flat compact patches. Branches villous or shaggy with soft 
white hairs. Leaves ;4-4in. long, oblong or oblong-spathulate, nar- 
rowed into a long sheathing petiole, quite entire, coriaceous and 
fleshy, glandular at the apex, glabrous or with a pencil of hairs at 
the tip. Peduncle +—in. long, usually villous with soft spreading 
hairs, naked or with a single bract towards the top. Involucral 
bracts usually 5, broadly ovate or almost rounded, obtuse. Flowers 
4-5. Calyx-limb apparently wanting. Petals absent. Stamens 2. 
Carpels somewhat compressed, convex on the outer face, obscurely 
ribbed.— Kirk, Students’ Fl.195. A. bellidioides, Benth. Fl. Austral. 
ili. 369 (im part). Hemiphues suffocata, Hook. f. in Lond. Journ. 
Bot. vi. (1847) 471. H. bellidioides var. suffocata, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. 
i. 158, t. 36a. 
Sourn Istanp: Nelson—Mountains near the Heaphy River, Dall! Mount 
Rochfort, Rev. Ff. H. Spencer! W. Townson! Otago—Blue Mountains, Petrie ! 
Longwood Range, Kirk! Srewart Istanp: Apparently not uncommon, Pe- 
trie! Thomson! Kirk ! Sea-level to 3500 ft. Also in Tasmania. 
5. APIUM, Linn. 
Erect or prostrate glabrous herbs. Leaves ternately or pin- 
nately divided. Umbels compound, leaf-opposed or terminal. In- 
volucral bracts usually wanting. Flowers white. Calyx-teeth ob- 
solete. Petals ovate, concave, usually inflected at the tip. Fruit 
