PLATE 69.—ANGELICA ROSAZFOLIA. 
Famity UMBELLIFER. | [Genus ANGELICA, Linn. 
Angelica rosefolia, Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 581; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 224. 
For the discovery of this curious plant we have to go back as far as October, 
1769, the time of Cook’s first visit to New Zealand. It was then collected by 
Banks and Solander on or near the site of the present town of Gisborne, and 
a few days later was observed at “ Tigadu”’ (Anaura Bay) and at Tolaga Bay. 
It was also gathered by them at Opuragi (Mercury Bay), and on Motuarohia 
Island, in the Bay of Islands. An excellent description was written by Solander 
for his manuscript “ Primitive Flore Nove Zelandizw” under the name _ of 
Ligusticum aromaticum, and a very faithful drawing was prepared for the 
Banksian plates. Notwithstanding all this, Solander’s name and drawing both 
remained unpublished, and the plant was not mentioned by any of the earlier 
writers on the New Zealand flora, as Forster, A. Richard, and Allan Cunningham ; 
in fact, it was not until seventy-five years had elapsed that it again came 
under the notice of the botanical world. 
Some time before 1843 specimens were obtained in some locality in the 
North Island by Mr. Colenso, and forwarded to Sir W. J. Hooker at Kew. Soon 
after, the plant was also gathered in the East Cape district by Dr. Sinclair, 
and from these two sources it was figured and described in the “ Icones 
Plantarum ” (t. 581) under its present name. Sir J. D. Hooker, in the “ Flora 
Nove Zelandie ” transferred it to his genus Anisotome, but in the ‘** Handbook” 
he replaced it in Angelica. In neither publication does he mention Banks and 
Solander as the first discoverers—in fact, through some curious misconception 
he applied Solander’s name of Ligusticum aromaticum to the mountain-plant 
which is now well known under that appellation. It is hard to see how the 
mistake can have arisen, for neither Solander’s description nor plate will suit 
the present LZ. aromaticum, and there is no proof that he ever collected it. 
Fortunately, however, as Solander’s name was never actually published, its use 
for a different species is admissible; so that there is no occasion to disturb 
the existing nomenclature. 
Angelica rosefolia is mainly a coastal plant, and I have not myself seen it 
any great distance from the sea. Its northern limit is on the Three Kings 
Islands, where I observed it in 1887 and again in 1889. From thence it is 
not uncommon southwards as far as Hawke’s Bay on the east coast and Raglan 
on the west. Inland it has been recorded from the Ruahine Range by 
Mr. Harding, and the Upper Rangitikei by Mr. Buchanan. I have not seen 
specimens from the South Island, but it has been recorded from Akaroa (Raoul, 
fide Hooker) and from Canterbury, without precise locality, by Travers and 
Armstrong. 
This species and the allied A. geniculatus are anomalous in the Umbellifera 
from their scrambling or subscandent stems. The leaflets are also provided 
with a pair of minute stipelle at the base: one on the upper surface, the 
other below—a very unusual character in the family. 
Pirate 69. Angelica rosefolia, drawn from specimens collected on the Little Barrier Island by 
Miss Shakespear. Fig. 1, pedicel (enlarged) ; 2, base of a pair of leaves, showing the minute stipelle 
(enlarged) ; 3, male flower (x 10); 4, the same with the petals and stamens removed, showing the 
calyx and the rudimentary ovary (x 10); 5, petal (x 12); 6, female flower (x 10); 7, the same 
with the petals removed (x 10); 8, petal from female flower (x 12); 9 and 10, fruit (x 8); 11, trans- 
verse section of fruit (x 14). 
