Ligusticum. | UMBELLIFERZ. 219 
nately divided into narrow-linear flat acute segments 4-14 in. long 
‘and varying in width from filiform to 4in., the broadest sometimes 
toothed or lobed at the tip. Umbels few, compound, dicecious, on 
long slender peduncles; rays slender, very unequal, 4—2 in. long; 
involucral bracts few, short, subulate-lanceolate. Fruit tin. long, 
linear-oblong, compressed; carpels thin, 5-winged, lateral wings 
broader than the dorsal.—Kuirk, Students’ Fl. 208. 
SoutH Istanp: Mountain districts from Cook Strait to the south of Canter- 
bury, not uncommon. 1000-4500 ft. December—January. 
10. L. deltoideum, Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv. (1882) 
299.—Small, stout, dark-green and shining, very aromatic, 2-6 in. 
high. Rootstock stout, clothed with pale chaffy scales. Leaves 
numerous, all radical, membranous, 2—4in. long; petiole half the 
length, sheathing at the base; blade broadly deltoid in outline, 
ternately or 2-pinnately divided; leaflets 1-tin. long, cuneate- 
deltoid, deeply 3-5-lobed; lobes flat, very narrow linear-subulate, 
acute or acuminate. Flowering-stems short, seldom exceeding 
the leaves. Umbels small, $-lin. diam., compound; rays 4-8, 
slender, very unequal; involucral bracts short, linear-subulate. 
Flowers white or pink. Ripe fruit not seen.—Kuirk, Students’ Fl. 
203. 
SourH Is~tanp: Grassy slopes on Mount Arthur, Nelson, altitude 4000- 
5500 ft., 7. F. C.; Mount Stokes, Marlborough, Macmahon! December— 
-January. 
Close to L. filifoliwm. but distinguished by the smaller size, more numerous 
leaves with copious divisions, differently shaped leaflets, and short flowering 
stems, which rarely exceed the leaves. 
11. L. carnosulum, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 96. — Small, 
3-6 in. high, thick and fleshy, glaucous-green. Root stout, often as 
thick as the little finger, tortuous among shingle. Stems usually 
short, tapering downwards. Leaves 1-3 near the top of the stem 
or from the root, very thick and fleshy ; petiole 3-2 in. long, with a 
short broad sheath; biade i-3in. diam., 2-3-ternately multifid, 
ultimate segments +—2 in. long, #,-;, in. broad, very narrow linear, 
acute or subacute, curved, obscurely jointed on the rhachis. | Umbel 
solitary, compound, large for the size of the plant, 14—4 in. diam. ; 
involucral bracts about 5, 2-3-ternately divided like the leaves, 
overtopping the umbel; rays numerous, rigid, almost woody in 
fruit, }-lin. long. Secondary umbels small, concealed among the 
bracts of the involucels, which far exceed the small white or pink 
almost sessile flowers. Calyx-teeth acute, prominent. Styles 
rigid, subulate. Fruit oblong, tin. long; carpels incurved, with 5 
low obtuse ridges, commissural face rounded; vitte 1 under each 
furrow and 2 on the commissure.— Kirk, Students’ Fl. 203. 
Sour Isuanp: Bare shinge-slopes on the mountains of Nelson and Canter- 
bury, not common. Wairau Gorge, 7. F. C.; Mount Captain, Kirk! Lake 
