Angelica. | UMBELLIFERZ!, 223 
above. Radical leaves 6-15in. long, rather fleshy, glaucous, pin- 
nate; leaflets 5-10 pairs, close together or the lower rather distant, 
1-2 in. long, sessile, obliquely ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, finely 
crenate or serrate, rarely lobed, veins finely reticulate; petioles 
stout, often longer than the blade, sheath narrow. Umbels few, 
compound, 1-3 in. diam.; rays 10-20, slender, spreading; involucre 
wanting; partial umbels usually with an involucel of a few linear 
bracts. Flowers white. Fruit tin. long, ovate-cordate; carpels 
much compressed, with a broad lateral wing on each side, which is 
produced downwards at the base; dorsal ribs small; vitte 1 in 
each furrow and 2 on the commissural face.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 
212. Anisotome Gingidium, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 89. Ligusti- 
cum Gingidium, Forst. Prodr. n.140. Gingidium montanum, Forst. 
Char. Gen. 21. 
NortH AnD SoutH ISLANDS: From Taupo southwards to Otago; once very 
abundant, but as it is everywhere greedily eaten by stock it has become scarce in 
many districts. Sea-level to 4000 ft. Aniseed. November-January. 
2. A. decipiens, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 98.—Very aromatic, 
3-8 in. high. Root stout, thick and woody. Leaves numerous, 
spreading, usually all radical, 3-6in. long, pinnate; leaflets 6-10 
pairs, +-4in. long, sessile, ovate or ovate-oblong, membranous or 
flaccid, irregularly deeply toothed or pinnatifid; lobes linear, acute, 
not bristle-pointed ; petioles shorter than the blade, sheath broad. 
Flowering-stems several, usually unbranched, equalling or longer 
than the leaves. Umbels compound, 4-14in. diam.; rays 4-8, 
unequal, 4-1 in. long ; involucral bracts few, ovate-lanceolate. 
Flowers small, white. Fruit in. long, oblong, rounded or slightly 
cordate at the base; carpels 5-winged, the 2 lateral wings much 
wider than the 3 dorsal. Vitte 1 under each furrow and 2 on the 
commissural side.—Aciphylla decipiens, Hook. f. and Benth. Gen. 
Plant. i. 916. Ligusticum decipiens, Kirk, Students’ Fl. 205. 
SoutH Isuanp: Not uncommon in mountain districts from Nelson to 
Otago. 2000-6000 ft. December-January. 
Closely resembling Ligusticum aromaticum in foliage, but the inflorescence 
and fruit are altogether different. Mr. Kirk refers it to Ligusticum ; but all the 
fruiting specimens I have seen have the lateral wings of the carpels much wider 
than the dorsal. 
3. A. trifoliolata, Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxi. (1899) 
425.—Slender, perfectly glabrous, 3-9 in. high; stems creeping and 
rooting at the base; branches few, spreading. Leaves on rather 
long slender petioles, 3-foliolate or pinnate; leaflets few, in 1 or 2 
distant pairs, simple or again ternately divided; petiolule slender, 
4-lt4 in. long; blade 4in., rhombeo-orbicular or flabellate, cuneate 
at the base, crenate-dentate at the rounded tip, rather membran- 
ous, glaucous below ; veins reticulated. Umbels small, compound ; 
primary rays few, secondary 3-5 ; involucral bracts minute, 
