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toothed, or more or less deeply cut into lobes till they are almost again pinnate, with narrow 
segments. 
11. In. imbricatum, Hook.f., n. sp. Stems most densely tufted, "form- 
ing large, flat, depressed patches, very much branched, as thick as the little 
finger, densely covered with closely imbricating, persistent, coriaceous, shining, 
green leaves. Leaves with the sheaths in. long ; petiole and rhachis very 
stout; leaflets 4-6 pairs, very small, closely imbricate, -H-g-— §• in. long and 
broad, palmately 3-5-lobed ; lobes terminated by a stout bristle ; sheaths very 
large, broad, membranous, produced upwards into a large hood. Flowering- 
stem sunk amongst the leaves. Umbel compound, male only seen. Invo- 
lucral leaves few, oblong, obtuse. Calyx-teeth large, acute. 
Middle Island : Otago, dry debris on the alps of the lake district, alt. 5-G000 ft. A 
highly curious plaut, very unlike an Umbellileruus one ; but I suspect only a form or state 
of L. aromaticum. 
12. In. (?) trifoliolatum. Hook. /., n. sp. Small, glabrous. Stem 
slender, 6 in. high, sparingly divided above. Leaves 3-foliolate or pinnate ; 
leaflets in 1 or 2 distant pairs, l-i- in. long, on slender petioles, rhombeo-orbi- 
cular, cuneate at the base, the rounded tip crenate, glaucous below, reticu- 
lated with veins, lowermost sometimes lobed or 3-fid ; petioles slender, 
sheaths short, broad. Umbels small, few-flowered; rays short or long, un- 
equal, slender ; involucral leaves very short. Flowers white ; styles slender. 
Fruit unknown. 
Middle Island : watercourses by the Kowai river, alt. 2-3000 ft., Ilaast. A curiou 
little species, at once known by the few petioled leaflets; it is probably 2-pinnate, or 2 
ternately pinnate. I have only two specimens, and, in the absence of fruit, am not certain 
of its genus. 
I have another small, pinnate-leaved species of this genus ?, somewhat similar to L. aroma- 
ticum, gathered in the Southern Island by Dr. Lyall, but not in flower or fruit, with 
small orbicular crenate leaflets, and the upper part of the rhizome sheathed with the rigid 
bases of the old petioles. 
9. ANGELICA, Linn. 
Erect herbs or subscandent undershrubs. Leaves pinnate or 2- or 3-pitmate. 
Umbels compound, often polygamous. — Calyx-limb 5 -toothed, often unequally, 
or obsolete. Petals with an incurved or rarely inflexed tip. Styles gene- 
rally long and slender. Fruit oblong, more or less cordate at the base ; car- 
pels much dorsally compressed, with 3 slender filiform dorsal ribs, and 2 
broad lateral membranous wings. 
A small genus, of temperate Europe, Asia, and America, hitherto found nowhere in the 
southern hemisphere, except in New Zealaud, where the two subscandent species are anoma- 
lous in the Order, and the erect ones are in many characters more closely allied to Ligusticum 
than to Angelica. 
Herbaceous, stem erect. Leaves radical, pinnate ; leaflets crenate . . 1. A . Gingidium. 
Herbaceous, stem erect. Leaves radical, pinnate ; leaflets laciniate . . 2. A. decipiens. 
Suffruticose, subscandent. Leaves on the branches, pinnate . ... 3. A. rosafolia. 
Suffruticose, subscandent. Leaves on the branches, 1-3-foliolate . . 4. A. geniculata. 
1. A. Gingidium, Hook.f.; — Anisotome, FI. N. Z. i. 89. Stem stout, 
erect, 1-1^ ft. high, striate, brauched sparingly above. Leaves 4-10 in. 
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