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656 UMBELLIFERAE. |Oreomyrrhas. 
leaflets pinnatifid or variously toothed or incised. Peduncles several, 
usually springing from the rootstocks, but in the branched varieties axil- 
lary as well, longer or shorter than the leaves, glabrescent or pilose, 
especially towards the tip, where the hairs are usually reversed. Umbels 
few- or many-flowered ; involucral bracts 6-8, ovate to linear. Flowers 
at first sessile, but pedicels lengthening as the fruit ripens, often unequally 
so. Fruit linear- or ovate-oblong, glabrous or more or less densely pubes- 
cent.—Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. ii (1847) 288, t. 101; Benth. Fl. Austral. ii 
(1866) 377; TL. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 197; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 
(1906) 206. 
Var. Colensoi 7’. Kirk 1.c. 198.—Leaves all radical, pinnate or 2-pinnate; leaflets 
pinnatifid or incised, ultimate segments acute. Scapes numerous, simple.—O. Colensoi 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov, Zel. i (1853) 92; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 91. O. Haastii Hook. f. le. 
Var. rigida 7’. Kirk l.c—Stems stout, branched at the base only, 4—-8in. high. 
Leaves 2-pinnate, pubescent or tomentose ; leaflets pinnatifid or deeply incised. Scapes 
stout and rigid, often depressed. Fruits linear. 
Var. ramosa&7'. Kirk I.c.—Stems slender, much branched, often 2 ft. long. Leaves 
pinnate ; leaflets membranous, distant, the lowest petioled, deeply 3-5-lobed or -partite 
or again pinnate, ultimate segments obtuse or subacute. Peduncles axillary, longer 
or shorter than the leaves, 3~-8-flowered; pedicels unequal, sometimes 2 in. long. 
Fruits glabrous or pubescent.—O. ramosa Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl, (1864) 91. Mr. 
Kirk’s var. apiculata appears to be a form of this. , 
Norra anp Sour Isnanps, Cuaraam Istanps: Abundant from the East Cape 
southwards. Sea-level to 4500 ft. November—February. Also in Australia and 
Tasmania and in South America, 
As in the first edition of this work, I have followed Mr. Bentham and the ‘‘ Index 
Kewensis ’’ in uniting the three New Zealand species described by Hooker with the 
American and Australian O. andicola. Any large series of specimens will show that 
the development or non-development of a branched stem, and the amount of pubescence, 
which were the characters relied upon for the separation of the species, are in-Oreomyrrhis 
far too yariable and inconstant to be employed for that purpose. 
( (A227) Sac, 
8, CRANTZIA Nutt. qos, (7247. 
A small creeping herb. Leaves linear, terete or compressed, undivided, 
transversely septate. Umbels simple, with minute involucral bracts. 
Flowers minute. Calyx-teeth small. Petals concave, acute, imbricate in 
the bud. Fruit ovoid-globose, slightly flattened laterally. Carpels nearly 
terete, with 5 ribs separated by furrows, the lateral ribs forming a thick 
and corky mass near the commissure. Vittae 1 under each furrow and 
2 at the commissure. 
A monotypic genus, found in the United States and Mexico, extra-tropical and 
Andine South America, Australia and Tasmania, and New Zealand. 
R. ( Hera wie Comey 
1. C. lineata Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. Pl. i (1818) 177.—Perfectly glabrous. 
Rhizome slender, creeping and rooting at the nodes, 2-6 in. long or more. 
Leaves usually tufted at the nodes, variable in size, $4 in. long, narrow- 
linear, fistulose, terete or subcompressed, obtuse at the tip, transversely 
septate internally. Peduncles axillary, shorter than the leaves, filiform, 
bearing a single 2-8-flowered umbel. Flowers white. Fruit cz In. long.— 
Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. ii (1847) 287, t. 100; Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 87 ; Handb, 
N.Z, Fl. (1864) 89; Benth. Fl. Austral. iti (1866) 374; 7. Kirk Students’ 
Fl. (1899) 199; Oheesem. Man, N.Z. Fl. (1906) 207. Lilaeopsis lineata 
Greene in Pittonia ii (1891) 192. : 
