212 XXXIV. UMiiELLlPEEAE. {Angelica. 



scandent, and almost suffruticose, with pinnate or rarely 2— 3-pinnate leaves and 

 compound umbels of unisexual or polygamous white flowers. 



A small genus, most f cequeut in northern, temperate, and subarctic regions ; apparently 

 restricted to New Zealand in the Southera Hemisphere. The subscaudent species are aberrant in 

 the order. Species, about 25. 



* Herbaceous, erect. Leaves radical. 

 Leaves pinnate, erect, Ift.-ljft. high .. .. .. .. ..1. A. Gingidium. 



** Suffruticose, subscandent. 



Leaves pinnately 5-foliolate, shining .. .. .. .. ..2. A. rosaefolia. 



Leaves distant, unifoliolate, small . . . . . . . . . . 3. A. geniculata. 



1. A. Gingidium, Hook. /., Handbk. 97. Root stout, fleshy, strong- 

 smelling. Stem slender or stout, striate, 1ft.— lift, high, sparingly branched 

 above. Leaves linear-oblong in outline, pinnate, 6in.— 12in. long ; leaflets in 

 5—10 pairs, sessile, obliquely ovate-oblong, often subimbricate, rarely lobed, 

 crenate or serrate, nerveless ; petiole often longer than the blade ; rhachis 

 jointed at the insertion of the leaflets. Umbels compound, lin.-3in. in dia- 

 meter ; general involucre ; rays 8—15, spreading, slender ; partial involucre of 

 few short linear bracts, exceeding the pedicels. Flowers white. Fruit ovate- 

 oblong, cordate at base, x^in. long ; wings membranous. — Anisotome Gingidium, 

 Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 89. Ligusticum Gingidium, G. Forst., Prod. n. I-IO ; A. 

 Rich., Fl. N.Z. 272 ; A. Cunn., Precurs. n. 506. Gingidium montanum, Forst., 

 Gen. t. 21. Ligusticum anisatum, Banks and Sol. MSS. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands: Tararua Range to Otago. Sea-level to 3,000ft. Aniseed. 

 Nov., Dec. 



Formerly abundant, but has been almost extirpated by cattle in many localities. 



2. A. rosaefolia, Hook., Ic. PI. t. 581. Suffruticose. Stem 2ft.-5ft. 

 long, clothed with the sheaths of old leaves below, stout, much branched, 

 scrambling over rocks. Leaves petioled, 2in.— 5in. long, pinnately 5- rarely 

 3-foliolate ; leaflets sessile, lin.— 2in. long, with 2 glands at the base of each, 

 obliquely ovate-lanceolate or oblong-acute, acutely serrate, shining ; petiole one- 

 third the length of the leaf ; sheath persistent, produced upwards into 2 sub- 

 acute or obtuse lobes. Umbels terminal or axillary, compound, spreading ; 

 rays 8—12, subequal, exceeding the involucral bracts. Flowers white. Calyx- 

 teeth acute. Style slender, straight. Fruit exceeding the pedicels, ovate, cor- 

 date ; wings broad, membranous. — Hook, f., Handbk. 98 ; Raoul, Choix. 47. 

 Anisotome rosaefolia, Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 90. Ligusticum aromaticum, Banks 

 and Sol. MSS. 



THREE KINGS Islands, Cheeseman. Bay of Islands, Banks and Sol. MSS. Whangarei, 

 T. K. Great and Little Barrier Islands, Kawau Island, T. K. Between Kaipara Harbour and Port 

 Waikato, Cfeeeseman. Manukau Harbour, T. K. Mercury Bay and East Cape, Banks and Salt 

 Hawke's B&y, A. Hamilton! Upper Raugicikei, Buchanan. SOUTH Island: Banks Peninsula, 

 Raoul. Koheriki. ICoheripa. Oct., Nov. Chiefly littoral. Ascending to 2,000ft. in the Urewera 

 Country, E. Best ! 



The leaves are beautifully reticulated with pellucid veins, and the rhachis is obscurely jointed. 



