676 UMBELLIFERAE. | Anisotome. 
broad inflated sheathing petioles. Umbels dioecious, usually numerous, 
1-2in. diam., compound, the lower ones on long peduncles, forming a 
terminal epen panicle; involucral leaves linear-subuiate, shorter than the 
rays. Flowers white. Fruit ovoid-oblong, 4-7 in. long ; carpels-5-winged.— 
Ligusticum Haastii F. Muell. ex Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 95; 
T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 201; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 217; 
Ill, N.Z. Fl. i (1914) t. 65. 
Sourn Isranp: Abundant in the central and western portions of the Southern 
Alps, stretching from Mokihinui and the Mount Rochfort Range on the one side and the 
Spenser Mountains on the other to the extreme south-west of Otago. Attains its northern 
limit on Mount Stokes, near Pelorus Sound, but as a rule it is rare in the north-eastern 
portion of the South Island. Altitudinal range 1500-5000 ft, December—February. 
A handsome and graceful plant, easily recognized by the finely divided dark-green 
membranous leaves, with hair-pointed lobes. 
7. A, eapillitvdta atten N.Z. Plants and their Story (1919) 191.— 
Bright-green, leafy, father stout, 6-9in. high. Roots long, stout, stringy. 
Leaves numerous at the base of the stem, 4-6in. leng, 1-2 in. broad ; 
petioles short, grooved, broadly sheathing at the base; blade linear-oblong 
in outline, membranous, 2-4-pinnately divided, primary divisions or pinnae 
8-12, the lower remote, the upper often overlapping, 4-1 in. long, deeply 
and finely again divided ; ultimate segments about }in. long, very narrow, 
often under ,/; in. broad, terminating in a long flexuous hair-point. Cauline 
leaves absent ; the flowering stems not much exceeding the leaves. Umbels 
few, 1-4, compound, in an open-branched panicle ; a broad sheathing bract 
tipped with a short finely divided lamina at the base of each division ; 
primary rays 8-15; involucral bracts linear-subulate, shorter than the 
rays. Flowers white. Fruit ovoid-oblong, 2in. long. Carpels usually one 
5-winged and the other 4-winged; vittae 1-2 in the interspaces and 2-4 
on the commissural face.—Ligusticum capillifolium Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. 
Inst. xlvn (1915) 45. : 
SoutH IsLanp: Mountains of south-west Otago, alt. 3000-5500 ft. Mountains 
above Chalky Inlet. A. Reischek ! Mount Tyndall, Petrie! Mount Bonpland, H. J. 
Matthews ! slopes of Mount Balloon, McKinley’s Pass, F. G. Gibbs! near Lake Harris, 
J. Speden ! December—February. —~ ( 4 1 )EA ) 
[ have been acquainted with this for many years, but have delayed describing it 
until I could satisfy myself as to its distinctness from A. Haastii, to which it is very close 
indeed. It is, however, a smaller plant, with a flowering stem not much exceeding the 
leaves; the petioles are much sherter, and the leaves much more finely cut, the ultimate 
segments being barely half the width of those of,A. Haastii, and furnished with a long 
flexuous hair-point at the tip. Mr. Gibbs remarks that “ pressed specimens badly 
represent the growing plant, which closely resembles in appearance a miniature 7'odea 
superba. 'The final leaflets are all turned at right angles to the plane of the leaf, giving 
it a beautiful mossy appearance.” The first person to collect the plant appears to have 
been the late Mr. A. Reischek; but it has since been observed in so many stations that 
we may fairly conclude that it is not uncommon on the higher mountains of south-west 
Otago. Po al 
(New 2) Bas. AT: 1A, 
8. A. ieee an Alas Veg. N.Z. (i921) 225.—Stems 6-18 in. high, 
slender, grooved. ‘Radical leaves 4-12in. long; petiole somewhat rigid, 
shortly sheathing at the base: limb linear-oblong in outline, rarely broader 
and ovate-oblong, 2-3-pinnate ; primary divisions 6-10 pairs; leaflets cut 
down to the rhachis into 3-5 distant very narrow-linear lobes }4in. long 
with short acicular tips. Umbels few, 1-8, loosely panicled, compound, 
dioecious ; involucral bracts filiform, shorter than the rays. Fruit on 
