216 UMBELLIFERZ. [Ligusticum. 
broad decurrent bases, unequally 3-5-lobed ; lobes acuminate, with 
acicular points and thickened margins; veins reticulate. Bracts 
very large, with broad concave bases 2-3 in. diam., and smaller folia- 
ceous tips. Umbels numerous, compound, 2-3in. diam., dicecious 
or polygamous ; involucral bracts linear, acute. Flowers red. Fruit 
din. long; carpels with 5 ridges, rarely with 4 or 3; vitte solitary 
under each furrow.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 200. Anisotome latifolia, 
Hook. Fl. Antarct. i. 16, t. 8. Calosciadium latifolium, Hdl. ex. 
Walp. Ann. ii. 702. 
Var. angustatum, Kirk, l.c.—Ultimate segments of the leaves narrower, 
fin. wide or less, acicular points longer. 
AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL IsLANDS: Abundant in moist places throughout 
the group. December-January. 
A noble species, said to occasionally reach the height of 6-8 ft. 
2. L. antipodum, Homb. and Jacq. ex Dene. Bot. Voy. Astrol. 
et Zél. 63, t. 3.—Stems 2-4 ft. high, very stout, deeply furrowed. 
Leaves 1-2ft. long, coriaceous; petiole as thick as the thumb, 
sheathing at the base; blade oblong, 2-3 pinnate ; ultimate seg- 
ments very numerous, rigid, crowded, lin. long, #;—j;,in. broad, 
linear-subulate, pungent-pointed. Bracts smaller and narrower 
than in L. latifoliwm. Umbels numerous, compound, 2in. diam., 
dicecious or polygamous; involucral bracts narrow-linear. Flowers 
red. Fruit in. long, narrow-oblong; carpels one with 5 wings, 
the other 3-winged.—Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 94; Kirk, Students’ 
Fl. 200. Anisotome antipoda, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 17, t. 9, 10. 
Calosciadium antipodum, Hndl. ex Walp. Ann. 11. 702. 
AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL ISLANDS, ANTIPODES Istanp: Abundant 
throughout the group, Sir J. D. Hooker, Kirk! December—January. 
Almost as fine a plant as the preceding, which is its nearest ally, and from 
which it is easily separated by the finely divided leave with numerous linear 
segments. 
3. L. acutifolium, 7. Kirk in Journ. Bot. (1891) 237.— 
Stems 3-5 ft. high, stout, deeply furrowed ; rootstock as thick as 
the wrist. Leaves spreading, 2ft. long or more, 6—-9in. broad, 
oblong or ovate-oblong, 3-pimnate ; segments broad, acute, sharpl 
toothed ; petiole stout, finely grooved, the upper part of the sheath 
free, forming a ligule. Flowers not seen. Fruiting umbels 2-24 in. 
diam., dense, compound ; rays numerous, about lin. long. Fruit 
Lin. long, exceeding the pedicels; carpels one 5-winged, the other 
3-winged.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 201. 
THe Snares: Not uncommon, Kirk ! December. 
My knowledge of this plant is derived from a single imperfect specimen 
in Mr. Kirk’s herbarium, and in default of further information I have re- 
produced the description given in the ‘‘Students’ Flora.” It is evidently 
very close to L. intermedium, but according to Kirk can be distinguished by 
the ligulate petiole, acute segments of the leaves, smaller umbels and shorter 
fruits, and by the absence of viscid milky juice. 
