Schizerlema. | UMBELLIFERAE. 651 
obovate-cuneate, bluntly 3-5-lobed or -crenate at the tip; margins thick- 
ened; petioles stout, $-I4in. long; stipules narrow, entire or ciliate. 
Peduncles variable in length, solitary from the nodes of the stem or 2-4 
at the top of a leaf-bearing scion. Umbels 4-15-flowered ; involucral 
bracts linear, obtuse. Fruit linear-oblong, tetragonous, usually longer 
than the pedicel; carpels 5-ribbed.— Azorella hydrocotyloides 7. Kirk 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 192; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 202. Pozoa 
hydrocotyloides Hook. f. Handb. N.Z, Fl. (1864) 88. 
Norte Istanp: Mount Holdsworth, Tararua Range, W. Townson! SovutTu 
Istanp: Mount Torlesse, “J. D. Enys! UT. Kirk! T. F. C.; Kowai River, Haast ; 
Broken River, J. D. Enys! T. F. C.; Rangitata River, Sinclair. Otago—Kurow 
Mountains and Mount St. Bathan’s, Petrie/ Haast River and Makarora, Poppelwell. 
2000-4500 ft. December—February. 
The creeping stems and excessively coriaceous leaves are the best marks of this 
curious little plant. The fruit is longer than its pedicel, in that respect differing from 
S. Colensoi, with which it was compared by Hooker. 
koe ; 
4, §. Allanii Oheesom. n. Me rextectey glabrous in all its parts, sending 
out creeping stolons often more than a foot in length, rooting and leafy at | 
the nodes. Leaves tufted at the nodes, very variable in size and cutting ; 
petiole very slender, 14 to 6 or even 9in. long; blade #-1} in. diam., either’ 
3-foliolate with the leaflets sessile or very rarely shortly stalked, or more or 
less deeply 3-lobed, the divisions obcuneate with 3-5 short rounded lobes ; 
texture subcoriaceous ; veins evident on both surfaces; margins thickened 
and recurved. Flowering shoots springing from the nodes, simple or 
branched, equalling or exceeding the leaves in length, naked or bearing a 
few trifid bracts. Umbels on slender peduncles, }-?in. diam., 6-18- 
flowered ; pedicels in. long; involucral bracts linear, acuminate. Fruit 
about #,in. long, prismatic-tetragonous, 3 or 4 times shorter than its 
pedicel. 
Nortu Istanp: Maharahara Mountain, southern end of the Ruahine Mountains, 
near Woodville, alt. 4000 ft., H. H. Allan !/ 
I am indebted to Dr. H. H. Allan for a copious suite of specimens of this interesting 
species. It is nearest to S. hydrocotyloides, from which it is separated by the larger 
size and much more slender and less coriaceous habit, and by the fruit being several 
times shorter than its pedicel. 
Itodla.<-). 
5. S. Roughii/Domin in Engl, Bot. Jahr. xl (1908) 581.—Perfectly 
glabrous, smooth and shining. Rhizome stout, branched, terminated by 
numerous radical leaves, and usually with prostrate or ascending leafy 
flowering branches. Leaves 4-ldin. diam., orbicular or reniform, coriace- 
ous, 3-5-foliolate or -partite; leaflets sessile, broadly obcuneate, deeply 
crenate-toothed or lobed at the tip; lobes rounded ; petioles 1-6 in. long; 
stipules usually laciniate. Flowering shoots often exceeding the leaves ; 
umbels many-flowered, usually 1-3 secondary ones arising from the base 
of the primary and overtopping it; involucral bracts linear-oblong, obtuse. 
Pedicels usually longer than the linear-oblong fruit ; carpels rounded at the 
back, 5-ribbed.—Pozoa Roughi Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 89. 
Azorella Roughi 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 192; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. FI. 
(1906) 201. 
SoutH IstanD: Mountains of Nelson and Marlborough, from Dun Mountain and 
north-west Nelson southwards to the Buller Valley and Lake Tennyson, not uncommon. 
2500-5000 ft. December—February. . 
This has the same habit as A. Haastii, but can always be recognized by the divided 
de I have seen no specimens from the south of Lake Tennyson and the Upper 
alau, 
