Lif/ifsticirm.] XXXlV. UMBELLIFBEaE. 203 



^in.— lin. lonj^ or more. Involuoral bracts shorter than the rays. Calyx-teeth 

 in the female flower. Fruits on very short pedicels, oblong, ^in.— ^in. long. 

 Styles very short. 



SOUTH Island: Canterbury: Lake Hawea and Waitaki, Haast! Otago : Lake district, 

 Hector and Buchanan ! Kurow and Mount Ida Ranges, Nevis Valley, &c., Petrie I 800ft. to 1,600ft. 

 Nov., Dec. 



10. L. filifolium, Hook, f., Handbk. 95. A very slender dioecious speeies, 

 4in.— 12in. high or more. Stems simple or branched above, with a small leaf 

 at the base of each branch. Radical leaves 3in.— lOin. long, on long and slender 

 petioles, 2— 3-pinnate ; leaflets ternately divided into narrow-linear flat acute 

 segments varying in width from almost capillary or filiform to jin. broad, the 

 broadest cuneate at the base and 2— 5-lobed or toothed. Umbels few, compound, 

 narrow ; rays unequal. Involueral leaves short, lanceolate or ovate, acute ; 

 rays unequal, mixed with pedicels. Pedicels unequal, g^^in.— Jin. long. Flowers 

 minute. Calyx-teeth in the female flowers. Fruit compressed, linear-oblong, 

 iin. long. Carpels with 5, rarely 4, prominent ridges ; vittae obscure. 



SOUTH Island : mountains of Marlborough, Nelson, Westland, and Canterbury. 2,000ft. to 

 3,500ft. Dec, Jan. 



11. L. deltoideum, Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z.I, xiv. (1881) 299. A small 

 slender aromatic species, 2in.— 6in. high. Rootstock stout, covered with chaffy 

 scales above. Leaves all radical, 2in.— 4in. long including the petiole, broadly 

 deltoid, 2-pinnate ; secondary leaflets ternately divided into acute or acuminate 

 linear-cuneate spreading lobes, not hair-pointed. Scapes shorter than the leaves, 

 usually naked. Umbels iin.— lin. in diameter, few-flowered. Pedicels very 

 short. Ripe fruit not seen. 



SOUTH Island : Mount Arthur Plateau, Nelson, 4,500ft., Cheeseman! 



In the absence of ripe fruit this may be only a variety of L. filifolium, some forms of which 

 have deltoid leaves, differing only in the rather broader segments. 



12. L. patulum, n. s. Stems very slender, sparingly branched, inclined, 

 spreading, 6in.— 12in. high or more. Radical leaves 3in.— 6in. long or more, 

 pinnate or 2-pinnate or pinnatifid ; leaflets in 6—7 distant pairs, petioled, laxly 

 divided into very narrow-linear toothed or tridentate acute lobes, rarely entire. 

 Rhachis very slender, scarcely jointed. Cauline leaves smaller, with narrower 

 segments. Umbels simple, on very slender axillary or terminal peduncles, 

 6— 10-flowered. Involueral bracts linear-ovate, shorter than the longest pedicels. 

 Pedicels unequal. Calyx-teeth extremely minute, acute. Petals inflexed at the 

 tips. Fruit liuear-oblong. Styles very slender. 



SOUTH Island: Canterbury: on limestone. Burke's Pass, J. B. Armstrong I Otago, 

 Buchanan ! 



The grey tint of the leaves, spreading stems, and few-flowered umbels render this species easily 

 recognised. I have only seen two specimens, botli in poor condition. 



13. L. carnosulum, Hook. /., Handbk. 96. Leaves and umbels all 

 radical ; petioles and peduncles tapering downwards, lin.— 6in. long or more, the 

 former tumid, iin. in diameter ; the rhachis jointed at the junction and ter- 



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