88 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [ Unbellifere. 
Var. a. angustifolia; foliorum segmentis angustissimis. 
Var. B. latifolia; foliorum segmentis brevioribus latioribus. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands. Rocky east and southern coasts, and interior of the Northern 
and all parts of the Southern Islands; also found on the mountains, Banks and Solander, Forster, Bid- 
will, Colenso, Lyall, etc. Nat. name, “Kuri Kuri,” Middle Island, Lyall. 
One of the most remarkable plants of its large Natural Order and of New Zealand, very aromatic, perfectly 
glabrous everywhere, but tuberculated minutely at the cartilaginous edges of the leaves and ribs of the stem, etc. 
Root as thick as the wrist. Stem thicker than the thumb, deeply channelled, granulated on the surface. Radical 
leaves numerous, spreading. Sheaths 1-3 inches long, 1-14 broad, with erect spinescent auricule at the top. 
Leaves 8 inches to 2 feet long, pinnate, with the pinne very long and spreading; rachis or common petiole com- 
pressed, distinctly jointed on to the sheath and at every pair of pinnee, which are opposite, grass-like in appearance, 
but not in texture, 1-2 feet long, 2—6 lines broad, acuminate, pungent; midrib very strong, tubereulate ; margins 
cartilaginous, crenulate-dentate. Floral leaves with rigid glossy channelled sheaths 1 inch long, and three to five 
long subulate lobes, of which the lateral often project horizontally, and the middle one (which is much the longest, 
2—4 inches) points downwards; altogether these leaves form a compact chevaus-de-frise around the flowers. Male 
umbels compound, spreading: female smaller, shorter, less compound, nestling amongst the sheaths. Carpels 
1 inch long.—Very variable in the breadth of the leaf-lobes. The whole plant assumes, when dry, a rich bright 
yellow colour. Mr. Bidwill and Mr. Colenso both regard the variety with broad pinne as distinct, but the former 
botanist never finds it in flower, and I perceive no difference in the flowers and fruit of Mr. Colenso’s. Var. 6 may 
be the first year’s broad leaves of a biennial or perennial plant. Mr. Bidwill says that this plant often grows 9 feet 
high, and so densely as to render tracts of country impassable to all but pigs, who grub up the roots for food; he 
adds, that it exudes an aromatic gum-resin in great abundance, that every part tastes like all the garden Umbel- 
lifere, and that it might be cultivated to advantage. It is closely allied to the following genus, and, like it, is 
usually dicecious, but hermaphrodite flowers often occur, especially in the male umbels. 
Gen. VII. ANISOTOME, Hook. jit. 
Dioica v. polygamo-monoica. Fructus dorso compressus, late ovato-oblongus v. elongatus, alatus. 
Carpella plano-convexa, dissimilia (rarius similia), unico jugis 5 omnibus alatis, altero (seepe abortivo) jugis 
4 v. 5 aliis alatis aliis filiformibus; valleculis grosse vittatis; semine profunde sulcato v. tereti. Calycis 
margo contractus, insequaliter 5-dentatus. Petala apice inflexa. Stamina incurva. Stylopodia $ magna, 
depressa; stylis 9 elongatis. Umbelle composite; involucris 0 v. oligophyllis, seepe foliosis.—Herbe 
habitu varia, erecta, prostrate v. subscandentes ; folis pinnatis v. decompositis. 
A remarkable genus of perfectly smooth, herbaceous, very aromatie, herbaceous or half-shrubby plants, often 
attaining a great size, first described in the “Flora Antarctica” from two Auckland Island species, which are much 
larger than any hitherto found in New Zealand. Calyx margin of five unequal teeth. Petals with an inflexed 
point. Stamens long, incurved. Stylopodia of male flowers broad and flat; of the female conical, terminating in 
long erect styles. Fruit oblong, broad or narrow. Carpels dorsally compressed, unequal, rarely equal, one often 
empty, all with winged ribs, five in the perfect carpels (two lateral and three dorsal) as many or fewer in the other 
carpel, where two or more are reduced to mere lines. Umbels compound.—This genus is, as far as at present known, 
confined to New Zealand and the islands south of it. (Name from avoos, unequal, and veuve, to cut; from the 
unequal carpels of the fruit.) 
8 a. Erect, herbaceous. Leaves radical, compound. 
1. Anisotome Zya/lii, Hook. fil.; robusta, caule striato ramoso, ramis floriferis, foliis 1-2-pedalibus 
bi-tri-pinnatisectis oblongis, petiolo crasso articulato basi vaginante, pinnis primariis late oblongis rachi arti- 
culato secundariis in lobos lineares obtusos varie incisis. 
