200 XXXIV. UMBELLIFEBAE. [Ligusticum . 



Small. Leaves broadly deltoid. Scape simple 



Stems spreading, slender. Leaflets distant. Umbels 6-10-flowered 



Leaves and umbels all radical, fleshy, erect 



** Leaves pinnate or 3-foliolate. 

 Leaves oblong, obtuse, pinnate, or leaflets pinnatifid 

 Rhachis broad. Leaflets toothed or pinnatifid, piliferous or woolly 

 Leaflets irregularly pinnatifid, not piliferous .. 

 Densely tuited, pahnately 3-5-lobed ; lobes piliferous . . 

 Leaflets in 2-3 pairs, often involute, fan-shaped, entire. . 

 Leaflets in 3-6 pairs, glaucous, sharply toothed 

 Leaves 3-foliolate or pinnate; leaflets petioled.. .. .. ..20. L.? trifoliolatum. 



1. L. latifolium, Hook, f., Handbk. 94.. A noble plant, 3ft.-5ft. high 

 or more. Stem 3in. — 4in. in diameter at the base, grooved. Radical leaves 

 1ft.— 2ft. long or more; petioles fin.— lin. in diameter, sheathing at the base; 

 sheath shortly ligulate* ; blade ovate, excessively coriaceous, 2-pinnate ; primary 

 divisions sessile, 2in.— 4in. long, linear-oblong ; segments obliquely cuneate 

 below, with broad winged bases, unequally 3— 5-lobed ; lobes acuminate^ with 

 acute points and thickened margins. Bracts large, 2in. broad, concave base 

 with foliaceous tips. Umbels numerous, 2in.— Sin. in diameter, mostly poly- 

 gamous, but some entirely male. Involucral leaves numerous, as long as the 

 rays, linear, acute. Flowers reddish. Calyx unequally 5-toothed. Petals not 

 inflexed. Fruit ^in. long. Carpels with 5 primary ridges, rarely 4 or 3, and a 

 single vitta under each furrow. — Anisotome antarctica, Hook, f., FI. Antarc. i. 

 16, t. 8. Calosciadium latifolium, Endl. e« Walp. Ann. ii. 702. 



Var. angustatum. Ultimate segments of the leaves Jin. in diameter or less, acioular points 

 longer. 



AUCKLAND and CAMPBELL Islands. Dec, Jan. 



The numerous crowded umbels often form large masses 6in.-10in. in diameter. 



2. L. antipodum, Homb. and Jacq. ex Deene, Bot. Voy. Astrol. et Zel. 

 63, t. 3. Stem stout, 3ft. high, deeply furrowed. Leaves 1ft.— 2ft. long; 

 petioles stout, sheath shortly ligulate at the apex ; blade oblong or broadly 

 oblong, 2— 3-piunate, coriaceous, dissected into countless narrow-linear subulate 

 segments yjin. broad, with acicular points. Umbels mostly unisexual, smaller 

 and less numerous than in L. latifolium, compound. Bracts narrower, inflated. 

 Involucral leaves longer, acuminate. Calyx unequally 5-toothed. Petals inflexed 

 at the tip. Fruit iin. long. Styles short, narrow-oblong. One carpel with 

 5 wings, the other 3-winged. — Hook, f., Handbk. 94. Anisotome antipoda, 

 Hook, f., Fl. Antarc. i. 17, t. 9, 10. Calosciadium antipodum, Endl. ex Walp., 

 Ann. ii. 702. 



AUCKLAND and CAMPBELL Islands, Hook. f. ANTIPODES Island, T. K. Dec, Jan. 



Readily distinguished from L. latifolium, to which it U closely allied, by the dissected leaves 

 witli linear aoicnlar segments. 



* The term is here applied to a membranous process arising from the sheathing base of the 

 petiole in certain species. 



