224 UMBELLIFERZ. [Angelica. 
linear. Flowers small, white; styles rather long, slender, spread- 
ing. Fruit + in. long, narrow ovate-cordate; carpels compressed, 
with a broad lateral wing on each side, dorsal ribs narrower but 
conspicuous. Vitte 1 under each furrow and 2 on the commissural 
face.—Ligusticum trifoliolatum, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 97; Kirk, 
Students’ Fl. 206. 
SourH Istanp: Canterbury—Swampy ground near the Kowai River, Haast, 
Cockayne ! 
Apparently a very rare and local plant, quite unlike any other species. I 
have only seen one rather indifferent specimen. 
4. A. geniculata, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 98.—Stems 2-5 ft. 
long, much branched, scrambling over rocks and shrubs; branches 
slender, terete, flexuose; internodes 1-3in. long. Leaves small, 
alternate, 1-foliolate, of young plants 3-foliolate or 3-lobed ; petiole 
slender, +-4 in. long; sheaths broad, produced into 2 blunt lobes 
at the top; leaflets -4in. diam., orbicular-ovate or rhomboid or 
transversely oblong, often cuneate at the base, rounded at the tip, 
obscurely crenate-dentate, rather thin and membranous, finely reti- 
culate. Umbels small, terminal and lateral, on short peduncles ; 
rays 2-5, very slender, about 4in. long; involucral bracts few, 
short, linear-subulate. Flowers small, white; petals inflexed at 
the tips. Fruit tin. long, oblong-ovoid, cordate at the base; 
carpels much compressed, the lateral wings very broad, pale and 
membranous. Vitte 1 under each furrow and 2 on the commis- 
sure.—Kirk, Students’ Fj. 213. Anisotome geniculata, Hook. f. Fl. 
Nov. Zel. i. 90, t. 19. Peucedanum geniculatum, Forst. Prodr. 
n. 136; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 272; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 507. 
Bowlesia geniculata, Spreng. Umbellif. 14, t. 5. 
Norty Isuanp: Rare and local. East Cape and interior, Colenso; Port 
Nicholson, Buchanan! Paikakariki, H. B. Kirk. Sourn Istanp: Akaroa, 
Raoul, Kirk! gorge of the Waimakariri, Cockayne; east coast of Canter- 
bury and Otago, Armstrong, Buchanan ! Petrie! G. M. Thomson ! January— 
February. 
5. A. roszfolia, Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 581.—Stems 2-5 ft. long, 
much branched, scrambling over rocks or among bushes, hard and 
almost woody below, clothed with the persistent sheaths of the old 
leaves. Leaves cauline, alternate, 2-5in. long, pinuate ; leaflets 
2-5 pairs, 1-24 in. long, opposite, sessile, ovate or ovate-oblong to 
ovate-lanceolate, often oblique at the base, acute, finely serrate, sub- 
membranous or coriaceous, veins reticulated ; petiole slender, rigid; 
sheaths broad, membranous, 2-lobed at the top. Umbels many, 
terminal and axillary, compound, 1-3in. diam.; rays numerous, 
slender; involucral bracts linear or lanceolate. Flowers white. 
Fruit in. long, ovate-cordate ; carpels with broad lateral wings. 
Vitte 1 under each furrow and 2 on the commissural face.— 
Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 98; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 212. Anisotome 
rosefolia, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 90. 
