| 
i 
| 
ll 
a 
90 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. | Umbellifere. 
eegualibus lineari-oblongis, jugis 5 omnibus eegualiter alatis, semine canaliculato. Ligusticum aromaticum, 
Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic. 
Haz. Northern Island. East and south coasts, and interior, Banks and Solander, Colenso, etc. Mid- 
dle Island, Bidwill, Lyall, etc. 
The smallest species I know, 8 inches to a foot high. Leaves all radical, except one at each fork of the stem, 
recurved. Petiole 4-6 inches long, stout, jointed, with eight pair of pinnas extending nearly to the base, 4 inch broad 
across the pinnze, which are coriaceous, deeply veined, cuneate-orbicular, more or less deeply toothed, or cut into 
linear segments, each ending in a little bristle. Stems or scapes slender, sparingly divided. Male umbels 13-2 
inches across, many-flowered ; flowers white, one line across. Calyw lobes variable, sometimes obsolete. Female 
umbels much smaller, contracted, fewer-flowered. Involucral leaves partial and general, few, linear-subulate, shorter 
than the peduncles. Fruit shortly pedicellate. Carpels linear, 2 lines long, equal, each with five winged ribs. 
Seeds deeply grooved.— Very variable in the amount and depth of lobing of the pinnæ: sometimes they are cut to 
the base, and I have a specimen from Mr. Colenso (without flower) of what may be a variety of this (but more pro- 
bably a new species), in which the leaflet is pinnate, with a few irregular linear, aristate, lobed pinnules. 
Subgenus EustyLis. 
Fructus late ovatus, dorso valde compressus. Carpel/a 5-7-juga, jugis 2 lateralibus late alatis, 3-5 
dorsalibus filiformibus. Semen alte sulcatum. Styli recti, elongati.—Suffrutices, ramis subscandentibus v. 
flagellatis. 
The great breadth of the lateral wings of the carpels and length of the styles, are the only technical characters 
of this subgenus: the remarkable subscandent habit, and elongated woody-branched stems, are features so different 
from those of Umdéellifere in general, and from the other Anisotomes, as to afford a better character. —A. Gingidium, 
in its egual broad-winged carpels and rather long styles, should perhaps be included here, but its habit is that of the 
herbaceous species. 
5. Anisotome rosefolia, Hook. fil.; suffruticosa, caule tortuoso subscandente ramoso, foliis oppositis 
imparipinnatis, foliolis oppositis sessilibus obligue oblongo-ovatis acutis serratis basi utringue stipellatis ! 
reticulatim venosis infimis interdum compositis, involucri foliolis paucis lineari-subulatis, floribus uni- 
sexualibus, carpellis ovato-cordatis. Angelica? roseefolia, Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 581. 
Has. Northern Islands, south of Auckland; not unfreguent, Sinclair, Colenso, etc. Nat. name, 
* Koheriki," Colenso. : 
Stems thicker than a goose-quill, hard and woody, several feet long, much branched. Branches covered with mem- 
branous sheaths of old leaves, leafy upwards. Petioles 3-5 inches long, with the vagina produced into ovate mem- 
branous auricles on each side, jointed at the insertion of the pinnae. Leaflets two to six pair, spreading, opposite, 
sessile, 1-24 inches long, obliquely ovate or linear-lanceolate, simply or doubly serrate, sharp, each with two small 
deciduous membranous stipules at the base, on the upper and under surface of the leaflets. Uimbels 1-4 inches across. 
Involucral leaves four to eight, linear-subulate, shorter than the peduncles. Flowers white, unisexual. Pedicels as 
long as the carpels, which are ovate, cordate, usually equal and five-ribbed, but sometimes one is seven-ribbed, the 
five dorsal ribs being filiform.—The stipelle at the base of the pinne are, I believe, not found in any other plant 
belonging to this Natural Order. 
6. Anisotome geniculata, Hook. fil.; caule tenui elongato ramosissimo subscandente, ramis flagellatis 
geniculatis apices versus distanter foliosis, foliis vaginatis 1- rarius 3-foliolatis, petiolo gracili, foliolo rhom- 
beo-ovato v. rotundato obtuso basi cuneato v. truncato obscure crenato reticulatim venoso rarius lobato v. 
tripartito, umbellis parvis terminalibus lateralibusgue, involucri foliolis paucis inconspicuis, floribus mini- 
mis, carpellis ut in priore. Peucedanum? geniculatum, Forster. DC. Prodr. A. Rich. Flora. A. Cunn. 
Prodr. Bowlesia, Schultz et Sprengel. Tas. XX. 
