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very short pedicels, oblong, $-¢in. iong; carpels with 5 narrow wings 3 
styles very short.—Ligusticum brevistyle Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 
95; 2. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 202; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 218. 
Souta Istanp: Canterbury—Upper Waitaki and head of Lake Hawea, Haast ! 
Otago — Lake district, Hector and Buchanan ! Kurow, Mount Ida, Cromwell, and other 
localities in eastern and Central Otago, Petrie! Hector Mountains, W. Wileox/ Eyre 
Mountains, Garvie Mountains, Routeburn, Poppelwell. Southland — Crosby Smith. 
3Q00-3500 ft. December—February. 
Closely related to A. Haastii, but a much smaller and more slender plant, with 
more sparingly divided leaves, smaller fruit, and shorter styles. 
9. A. dissecta/Cockayne Veg. N.Z. (1921) 223.—Rather stout, coriaceous, 
5-15 in. high. Rootstock thick, covered with the ragged bases of the old 
leaves. Radical leaves 3-12 in. long, coriaceous but hardly rigid ; petiole 
2 the length or more, with a long and narrow sheath; blade ovate-oblong 
or ovate-lanceolate, 2-3-pinnate; primary pinnae 4-9 pairs, 1-2in. long; 
secondary closely placed, ternately or pinnately cut into numerous linear 
pungent-pointed segments }-lin. long and about sin. wide. Umbels 
compound, few or many in an open branched panicle; primary rays 
humerous, 10-20; involucral bracts linear or lanceolate, acuminate. Fruit 
linear-oblong, $in. long; carpels 5-winged.—Ligusticum dissectum T. Kirk 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 202; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. FI. (1906) 218. 
Noxru Istanp: Mount Holdsworth and other high peaks of the Tararua Range, 
Buchanan £7. P. Arnold! W. Townson ! B. C. Aston! Mount Hector, Petrie / B. C, 
Aston ! 3900-4500 ft. December—February. 
An imperfectly known species, perhaps more nearly allied to A. pilifera than to 
any other, but differing widely in the much more divided leaves. 
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10. A, filifolia 'ockayne and R. M. Laing in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii 
(1911) 366.—Slender, grassy, very aromatic. Stems 6-20in. high, smooth, 
striate, often much branched above. Leaves 4-15 in. long, thin and often 
flaccid ; petioles very long, slender, sheathing at the base, sheaths short 
and broad, membranous ; blade very variable in size and shape, ternately 
divided into narrow-linear flat acute segments 4-14 in. long and varying 
in width from filiform to 4in., the broadest sometimes toothed or lobed 
at the tip. Umbels few, compound, dioecious, on long slender peduncles; 
rays slender, very unequal, 4-2in. long; involucral bracts few, ‘short, 
subulate-lanceolate. Fruit $in. long, linear-oblong, compressed; carpels 
thin, 5-winged, lateral wings broader than the dorsal.—Ligusticum 
filifolium Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 95; 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 
203 ; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 218. 
SoutTH Istanp: Mountain districts from Cook Strait to the south of Canterbury, 
not uncommon. Usually from 1000 to 4500ft., but descends almost to sea-level at 
Kaikoura, Rk. M. Laing ! December—January. 
Il. A. deltoidea Cheesem. n. comb.—Small, stout, dark-green and 
shining, very aromatic, 2-6in. high. Reotstock stout, clothed with pale 
chaffy scales. Leaves numerous, all radical, membranous, 2-4 in. long ; 
petiole 3 the length, sheathing at the base; blade broadly deltoid in 
outline, ternately or 2-pinnately divided; leaflets 1—Lin. long, cuneate- 
deltoid, deeply 3-5-lobed ; lobes flat, very narrow linear-subulate, acute or 
acuminate. Flowering stems short, seldom exceeding the leaves. Umbels 
small, -1 in. diam., compound ; rays 4-8, slender, very unequal ; involucral 
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