194 XXXIV. UMBELLiPEEAE. [Eryngium.. 



than the fruits. — Pozoa trifoliolata, Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 85, t. 18; Handhk. 87. 



P- microdonta, Col. in Trans. N.Z.I, xxiii. (1890) 387. Hydrocotyle trifolia, 



Banks and Sol. MSS. ! 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands: Hawke's Bay to Foveaux Strait. Sea-level to 2,800{t. Deo. 

 to Feb. 



10, A. elegans, Col. in Trans. N.Z.I, xxiii. (1890) 386. Densely tufted. 

 Stems simple, erect, slender, succulent, pflabrous. Sin. high. Leaves radical, 

 2-3-foliolate, lin.— Hin. in diameter; leaflets orbicular, membranous, obscurely 

 3-4-lobed, crenate, petiolulate ; stipules large, fimbriate. Peduncles 4—5 lines 

 long. Umbels 2—3, 20— 30-flowered . Involucral leaves linear, obtuse. Calyx- 

 teeth subobovate. Immature fruit faintly ribbed. 



SOUTH Island : " Sealy Eange, 6,000ft. ; the entire plant forming a big bunch or rosette with 

 many flowers." — H. Suter. 



Not having seen specimens of this, I have copied Golenso's description in a slightly condensed 

 form. It may be an alpine variety of the preceding. 



3. ERYNGIUM, Linn. 

 Calyx-lobes 5, acute, with pungent tips. Petals erect, deeply lobed ; mar- 

 gins reduplicate or recurved, with a laciniate process from between the lobes. 

 Margin of disk thickened. Ovary densely clothed with scales. Fruits sub- 

 terete ; ribs inconspicuous or ; vittae 0. Herbs, with rigid prickly or spinous 

 leaves, involucres, and involucels, the umbels reduced to globose or oblong bracts 

 or heads. 



The genus comprises about 150 species, distributed through warm and temperate countries. 

 The only New Zealand species extends to Australia. Name of uncertain origin. 



1. E. vesiculosum, Labill, PL Nov. Holl. i. 73, t. 98. Root stout. 

 Radical leaves rosulate, lanceolate, oblong or spathulate, narrowed into a flat 

 petiole, lin.— Sin. long or more, pinnatifid or deeply toothed ; teeth spinescent. 

 Stems 2in.— 5in. long, prostrate but never rooting at the nodes. Peduncles sin.- 

 lin. long or more, axillary; heads globose or ovoid. Outer involucral bracts 

 rigid, stellate, pungent. Flowers mixed with the projecting bracts of the invo- 

 lucels.— DC, Prod. iv. 92; Hook f., Fl. N.Z. i. 85; Handbk. 90; Benth., Fl. 

 Austr. iii. 369. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : on sandy beaches. East Gape and Poverty Bay to Oamaru on 

 the east coast and Okarito on the west. Dec, Jan. Also a native of Australia. 



4. ACTINOTUS, Labill. 



Calyx-limb 5-lobed, rarely 0. Petals 5 or 0. Stamens 5, rarelv 2. 

 Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled; styles 2, free or coherent at thfe base. Fruit of a 

 single carpel, crowned by the calyx-limb when present, dorsally compressed ; 

 ribs obvious or obscure ; vittae 0. Annual or perennial tufted herbs. Leaves 

 crenate-toothed, rarely entire or divided. Umbels simple, or the flowers capi- 

 tate. Involucres deeply divided. 



A small genus, restricted to Australia and New Zealand. 



