Ammi.] XXXIV. UMBELLIPERAE. 197 



* A. majus, L. Glabrous. Lower leaves pinnate; pinnules lanceolate, serru- 

 late, apiculate ; upper leaves pinnatisect; ; involucral leaves 3-fid. Flowers white. 



NORTH Island : naturalised in the Auckland Domain, Gheeseman. 



• CARUM, Linn. 

 Calyx-teeth small or 0. Petals obcordate, usually with the tip inflexed. Stylo- 

 podium conical. Fruit ovate or oblong, glabrous or hispid, compressed laterally ; 

 carpophore 2-fid ; carpellary ridges 5, filiform ; vittae usually solitary, rarely 1-3 

 together. Glabrous herbs. Eoots fusiform or tuberous. Leaves pinnate or 2-3-pin- 

 nate. Bracts and bracteoles few or 0. Flowers perfect, dioecious or polygamous. 



Leaves dissected ; segments filiform . . • C. Garui. 



Leaves 2-3-pinnate ; segments broad . . . . . . . . * C Petroselinum. 



* C. Carui, L. Eoot fusiform, biennial. Stem erect, slender, 1ft. -2ft. high, 

 branched, glabrous. Leaves 2-pinnate ; leaflets cut into opposite filiform segments. 

 Umbels irregular. General involucre reduced to 1 leaf or ; partial involucres 0. 

 Vittae prominent. Styles spreading. Carpels aromatic. 



SOUTH Island ; neB,r: Daneiin, A. Hamilton ! Local. Garraway. Dec. Europe. 



* C, Petroselinum, Benth. Eoot fusiform, biennial. Stem erect, branched, 

 solid. Leaves deltoid, 2- or 3-pinnate, shining ; seginents cuneate at the base, 

 crenate or toothed; cauline leaves often with entire linear segments. Umbels 

 regular, flat. Bracts of general involucre often divided ; bracteoles filiform. Flowers 

 yellow. 



Not infrequent from Auckland to Otago, but closely eaten down by sheep. Parsley. Dec, 

 Jan. 



6. OREOMYRRHIS, Endl. 

 Calyx-teeth 0. Petals shortly inflexed at the tip, imbricate in bud. Disk 

 continuous with the base of the styles. Fruit linear or ovate-oblongs narrowed 

 above, slightly compressed laterally. Carpels with 5 obtuse prominent ridges 

 and a vitta under each furrow. Seed nearly terete. Perennial silky hairy or 

 glabrous scapigerous herbs, with pinnate or 2— 3-pinnate leaves and simple 

 pedunculate umbels. Involucral bracts small, linear or ovate. 



A small genus, comprising about 6 species, chiefly Andine, ranging from Mexico to Fuegia, 

 with a single species extending to Australia and New Zealand. Etym. Prom the Greek, in reference 

 to the montane habitat of mo.'st of the species, and to Myrrhis, a closely-related plant. 



1. O. andicola, Endl., Gen. PL 787. Solitary or densely tufted, nearly 

 glabrous or hairy or silky, slender or rigid. Radical leaves few or many, lin.- 

 6in. long, linear-oblong, pinnate or 2-pinnate ; leaflets sessile or petioled, broadly 

 oblong, pinnatifid or incised ; segments acute or obtuse. Scapes simple or 

 branched, 2in.— 18in. long. Umbels 2— 30-flowered. Involucral leaves 6—8, 

 ovate or linear. Flowers sessile in the involucres or nearly so. Pedicels 

 lengthening in fruit, 5in.-2in. long, unequal. Fruit linear or ovate-oblong, 

 glabrous, pubescent, or almost hispid. Carpels glabrous or pubescent. — Benth., 

 Fl. Austr. iii. 377 ; F. Muell., 2nd Cens. Austr. PL 108. 0. eriopoda, Hook, f., 

 Fl. Tasm. i. 162. O. argentea, Hook, f.. I.e., and in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 300. Cal- 

 dasia andicola, Lag. ex DC, Prod. iv. 229. Myrrhis andicola, H. B. and K., 

 Nov. Gen. et Sp. v. 13, t. 419. 



