Lngusticum.| UMBELLIFERS. 221 
numerous, 1-6 in. long, coriaceous or almost membranous; petiole 
short, stout, broadly sheathing at the base; blade linear, pinnate ; 
leaflets 6-12 pairs, +4 in. long, deltoid-ovate or orbicular or broadly 
flabellate, more or less toothed or incised, sometimes pinnatifid or 
even again pinnate; lobes and teeth usually ending in a short or 
long bristle-like point. Umbels small, dicecious, compound, 4-14 in. 
diam.; males usually longer and more open than the females; rays 
slender, unequal, 4-2 in. long; involucral bracts few, small, linear- 
subulate. Fruit linear-oblong, 4in. long; carpels 5-winged.— 
Kirk, Students’ Fl. 204. Anisotome aromatica, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 
Zel. i. 89. 
Var. incisum, Kirk, l.c.—Larger and more membranous, 12-20in. high. 
Leaflets flabellate or rhomboid, 3-partite almost to the base; segments deeply 
incised, spreading. 
Var. lanuginosum, Kirk, l.c.— Leaf-segments tipped with copious long 
snow-white hairs, sometimes almost concealing the leaves. 
NortH anp SourH IsLtanps: Abundant in mountain districts from the 
East Cape to Foveaux Strait. Altitudinal range 1500-6500 ft. November-— 
February. Var. incisum: Broken River, Canterbury, Kirk! Var. lanugino- 
sum: Mountains above Lake Tekapo, 7. #. C.; Hector Mountains, Mount 
Pisa, Mount Cardrona, and other localities in Central Otago, Petrie ! 
15. L. imbricatum, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 97. — Small, 
much branched, densely tufted, forming large flat or convex 
patches. Stems stout, 1-3in. long, densely clothed with nu- 
merous closely imbricating coriaceous shining leaves. Leaves 
4-3in. long; petioles very short, with large broad membranous 
sheaths produced upwards into a hooded ligule; blade with a 
broad flattened rhachis and 4-8 pairs of closely placed often im- 
bricating leaflets; leaflets sessile, palmately 3-6-lobed; lobes ter- 
minated by a stout bristle longer than the lobes. Umbels small, 
simple or compound, sunk among the leaves; involucral bracts 
few, linear-subulate. Fruit broadly ovoid; carpels d5-winged.— 
Kirk, Students’ Fl. 205. 
SoutH Istanp: High peaks from Nelson and Marlborough to Southland, 
not uncommon. 4000-6500 ft. January—February. 
A very remarkable little plant, easily known by its small size, densely tufted 
habit, imbricated leaves, short peduncles sunk among the leaves, and broad 
fruit. 
16. L. Enysii, 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. ix (1877) 548.— 
Small, stout, depressed, glaucous-green, seldom more than 4 in. 
high. Root stout, often very long. Leaves all radical, 14-3 in. 
long, spreading or decurved, thick and coriaceous when fresh, 
linear or linear-oblong, pinnate; leaflets 3-6 pairs, }-4in. long, 
sessile, ovate or ovate-orbicular, sharply toothed or lobed ; lobes 
again cut, not piliferous; petioles with very broad short sheaths. 
Flowering-stems 2-4 in. long, simple or forked, decumbent. Umbels 
