204 XXXIV. UMBELLIFBEAE. \_Ligusticum,. 



nately divided at the apex into petioled leaflets, which are 2— 3-ternately or 

 -pinnately cut into glaucous linear subulate fleshy lobes Jin.— fin. long. Um- 

 bels compound, glaucous; rays 12—20 or more, 4in.— lin. long; umbellules 

 simple, 5— 10-flowered. Flowers on short stout pedicels, dioecious or poly- 

 gamous, overtopped by the secondary involucral leaves, which are divided 

 into 3—5 linear segments at the apex. Calyx-teeth acute, prominent. Sty- 

 lopodia conical ; style slender. Fruit oblong. Carpels with 4 obscure scarcely 

 acute ridges. 



SOUTH Island ; on shingle-slips, mountains of Nelson and Canterbury. Wairau Gorge, 

 Cheesetnan. Mount Captain, Amuri, T. .ff. Mount Torlesse, Baasi.' Leith Hill, Swj/s .' 5,000£t. to 

 6,500ft. Jan. 



One of the most remarkable plants in the order; now very rare, being everywhere cropped by 



14. L. piliferum, Hook. /., Eandbk. 96. Dioecious, erect, robust. 

 Stems lOin.— 20in. high, sparingly branched above. Leaves Bin.— 12in. long, 

 linear-oblong, very coriaceous, glaucous, red-purple, pinnate ; leaflets in 8—12 

 pairs, sessile, often imbricating, ovate orbicular-ovate or deltoid-ovate, entire 

 with few rounded apiculate lobes or teeth or 2— 3-lobed to the base, the mar- 

 gins lobulate and thickened, tipped with a stout bristle; petiole and rhachis 

 iin.— fin. broad, deeply striated ; sheath long and narrow. Umbels few, on 

 stout peduncles, compound, 2in.— 3in. in diameter; rays fin.— liin. long, un- 

 equal ; involucral bracts linear-oblong, shorter than the rays. Flowers rather 

 small, white. Calyx-teeth obscure. Fruit ovate-oblong. Carpels 3-winged or 

 one 5-winged. Styles slender. 



Var. plnnatlfidum. Leaves green, less coriaceous, longer, pinnatifidly divided into crowded 

 narrow-linear bristle- pointed segments. 



SOUTH Island : mountains of Marlborough, Nelson, Canterbury, and western Otago, 2,800ft. 

 to 4,000£t. 



In some small-leaved specimens the segments are almost capillary, Jin.-Jiu. long, shorter 

 than the hair-like points. 



15. L. aromaticum, Hook. /., Handbk. N.Z. Fl. 96. Dioecious, aro- 

 matic. Scapes lin.— lOin. high, simple or sparingly branched. Leaves all 

 radical, spreading, coriaceous, shining, lin.— 6in. long, iin.— lin. broad, linear- 

 oblong, pinnate ; leaflets sessile, 6-12 pairs, Jin.-Jin. long, ovate deltoid-ovate 

 or orbicular, toothed, incised, pinnatifid or even pinnate ; lobes and teeth 

 piliferous ; petiole stout; sheath short, broad. Umbels small, iin.-l^in. broad, 

 open or compact; rays unequal, slender, iin.-2iii. long. Involucral bracts verv 

 short, linear-acute, subulate. Flowers white. Calyx-teeth inconspicuous. 

 Style slender. Fruit on short pedicels or almost sessile, linear-oblong, xWin.- 

 ^in. long. Carpels 5-winged. — Anisotome arornatica. Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 99. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : very frequent in mountain districts from the East Gape to 

 Southland. 2,000ft. to 6,000ft. Nov. to Jan, 



Var. inclsum. Larger. 12in.-20in. high. Leaves more membranous ; leaflets fan shaped or 

 rhomboid, 3- partite nearly to the base ; segments deeply incised; lobules toothed, spreading, hair- 

 pointed. In limestone districts. Broken River, Canterbury, &c., Enys and Kirk. 



Var. lanuglnosum. Leaf-segments and teeth tipped with copious woolly snow-white hairs, 

 which completely hide the upper surface of the leaf. Peduncles stout. Umbels compact. Moun- 

 tains above Lake Tekapo, Gheeseman! Hector Mountains, Mount Pisa, Mount Cardrona, &o. 

 Otago, Petrie I 



