672 UMBELLIFERAE. [ Coxella. 
separated by the equally winged fruit, in the smaller number of wings (or ribs) and in 
the number being unequal in the two carpels. It has much of the habit of Aciphylla, 
although the leaves and bracts are never spinescent, but differs in the flattened and 
winged carpels, and in the smaller number of wings (or ribs) to each carpel, to say 
nothing of the much larger vittae. 
The name Cozella is used to commemorate the services to botanical science of the 
late Mr. F. A. D. Cox, of Whangamarino, Chatham Islands. During a lengthened : 
residence in this outlying corner of the Dominion Mr. Cox regularly and consistently 
collected specimens of the flora of the islands, making many important discoveries. 
1. C. Dieffenbachii Cheesem. and Hemsl. ex Cheesem. Trans. N.Z. Inst. 
xliv (1912) 160.—Stem stout, erect, 2-3 ft. high, 1-l4in. diam. at the base. 
grooved, Leaves all radical, 12 ft. long, 4-8in. broad, flaccid, greyish- 
green, 3-4-pinnate ; petiole usually more than 4 the length, sheath with two 
blunt lobes at the top; blade oblong or ovate-oblong in outline ; primary 
pinnae 4-5 pairs ; segments 14-3 in. long, ¥ in. broad, linear, flat, striate, 
mucronate. Inflorescence broad, loosely paniculate, of numerous peduncu- 
late compound umbels. Bracts with a broad sheath and rather large 
pinnatisect lamina. Peduncles 2-5in. long; rays of the male umbels 
numerous, slender, of the females about 6; involucral bracts few, linear- 
subulate. Fruit large, 3 in. long, in, broad, broadly oblong, much dorsally 
compressed ; carpels one 3-winged and the other 2-winged, rarely both 
3-winged. Vittae 1 or 2 in each interspace and 2 or 3 on the commissural 
face.—Ill. N.Z. Fi. i (1914) t. 64. Ligusticum Dieffenbachii Hook. f. Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. (1867) 729. Gingidium Dieffenbachii 7. Muell. Veg. Chath. Is. 
(1864) 17, t. 1. Angelica Dieffenbachii Benth. and Hook. Gen. Plant. i (1867) 
916. Aciphylla Dieffenbachii 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 211: Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z, Fl. (1906) 214. Ka rastyiire ey (ey 1X. 
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CHATHAM IsLANDS: Once not uncommon on cliffs na the seashore : now exceed- 
ingly rare, and apparently confined to a few stations on the precipitous cliffs of the 
southern portion of the islands, H. H. Travers! F. A. D. Cox! Captain Dorrien Smith f 
In an interesting paper prepared by Captain Dorrien Smith, entitled “ An Attempt 
to introduce Olearia semi-dentata into the British Islands,’ published in the Kew 
Bulletin for 1910 (pp. 120-26), which contains much information of value respecting 
the vegetation of the Chatham Islands, Captain Dorrien Smith gives an account of a 
visit to the only known locality for Cogella, near the south end of the main island. 
This is ‘accompanied by an excellent photograph of the plant in its natural habitat. 
THY’. BET, | 
12. ANISOTOME Hook. f. Stu. 
Large or small, perfectly glabrous, more or less aromatic, frequently 
succulent herbaceous plants. Leaves 1-3-pinnate or decompound ; rhachis 
articulated at the insertion of the leaflets. Umbels compound, rarely 
simple, usually of many rays; involucral bracts few or many, long or short, 
rarely wanting. Flowers white or red, polygamous or dioecious. Calyx- 
teeth small or obsolete, usually unequal. Petals incurved at the tip. 
Stamens incurved. Fruit linear-oblong ; carpels rounded or dorsally com- 
pressed, each with 5 equal narrowly winged ridges, or one carpel 5—4-winged, 
the other 4-3-winged. Vittae seldom more than 1 to each interspace, 
usually 2 on the commissural face. 
The genus Anisotome was originally founded by Hooker to include the Auckland 
and Campbell Islands A. latifolia and A, antipoda, two very distinct and remarkable 
species. In the “‘ Flora Novae-Zelandiae ” he enlarged its scope so as to take in 
A. ontermedia and A. aromatica. He also included all the true Angelicae then known 
from New Zealand. In the Handbook he restored the Angelicae to their proper genus, 
but reduced the whole of the remaining species to the northern genus Ligusticum. In. 
