Genus, Azorella :-Perenmal herbs often Jl^^'^^^^^f^^^. ^.^^^^^ 
cushions. Leaves entire, toothed or dissected often mto 3 leaflets 
or in a palmate manner. Stipules scaly or absent. Umbels ot 
flowers sessile or with a short stalk, between the leaves, l-many 
flowered. Bracts of the involucre small and free or large and ] omed 
at the base. Disc flat, fleshy. Calyx teeth evident Petals 
entire, obtuse, overlapping. Fruit sometimes laterally com- 
pressed, furrowed. 
Azorella filamentosa, Lamh. Plant somewhat tufted, 
about 3 or 4 in. high. Stem much branched Leaves hnear, 
almost boat-shaped, margins inflexed, entire. Leaf stalk 
about same length as leaf, sheathmg with hairs at the base. 
Umbels with short stalks, 6-8-flowered Petals brownish- 
yellow with green vein in centre. Anthers yellow. Pistil 
green. Fruit ovate or nearly terete. 
A steppe plant, fairly common on dry, sandy heaths. 
Flowers in November. 
East and West Falklands. 
Description of plate :-7 and 8, plant; 9, leaf; 10= Ao^^' 1^' 
flower seen from above ; 12, stamens and pistil ; 13 a^d 14, stamens ; 
15, pistil. All except 7 enlarged. 
