678 UMBELLIFERAE. | Anisotome. 
bracts short, linear-subulate. Flowers white or pink, Fruit linear-oblong, 
lin. long, 5-winged.—Ligusticum deltoideum Cheesem. im L rans. N.Z. 
Inst. xiv (1882) 299; Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 219; TT. Kirk Students’ Fl. 
(1899) 203. 
Sout IsuAND: Grassy slopes on Mount Arthur, Nelson, altitude 4000-5500 {t., 
T. F. C.; Mount Stokes, Marlborough, . H. Macmahon ! Mount Lyeli, W. Townson | 
December—January. 
Close to A. filifolia, but distinguished by the smaller size, more numerous leaves 
with copious divisions, ditierently shaped leatlets, and short flowering stems, which 
rarely exceed the leaves. 
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12. A. rae REY GRE ae and R. M. Laing in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xini 
(1911) 366.—Small, 3-6 in. high, thick and fleshy, glaucous-green. Rootstout, 
often as thick as the little finger, tortuous among shingle. Stems usually 
short, tapering downwards. Leaves 1-3 near the top of the stem or from 
the root, very thick and fleshy; petiole 4-2in. long, with a short broad 
sheath; blade 1-3in. diam., 2-3-ternately multifid, ultmate segments 
12 in. long, 3,-~5im. broad, very narrow-linear, acute or subacute, curved, 
obscurely jointed on the rhachis. Umbel solitary, compound, large for 
the size of the plant, 14-4 in. diam ; involucral bracts about 5, 2—3-ternately 
divided like the leaves, overtopping the umbel; rays numerous, rigid, 
almost woody in fruit, 4-lin. long. Secondary umbels small, concealed 
among the bracts of the involucels, which far exceed the small white or 
pink almost sessile flowers. Calyx-teeth acute, prominent. Styles rigid, 
subulate. Fruit oblong, tin. long; carpels incurved, with 5 low obtuse 
ridges, commissural face rounded; vittae 1 under each furrow and 2 on 
the commissure.—Ligusticum carnosulum Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 
96; T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 203; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 219 ; 
Ill. N.Z. Fl. i (1914) t. 66. 
easy (ligarse ; 
Soura Istanp: Bare shingle-slopes on the mountains of Nelson, Marlborough, 
and Canterbury, not common, but easily overlooked. Wairau Gorge, 7. FV. 0.; 
Awatere Mountains, Cockayne and Foweraker ; mountains near Lake Tennyson, De 2 ie 
R. M. Laing! Mount Captain, 7. Kirk / Mount Torlesse, Haast! Petrie! T. F.C. ; 
mountains of the Upper and Middle Waimakariri, J. D. Enys!/ Petrie! T. F. C., 
Cockayne! Rangitata Valley, J. B. Armstrong! Ashburton Mountains, Cockayne and 
R. M. Laing. 3000-6000 ft. December-February. 
A very remarkable plant, never found away from the moving masses of shingle 
so largely developed gn the eastern slopes of the Southern Alps. | 
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13. A. diversifolia (Cockayne in Trans, N.Z. Inst. xliv (1912) 34.— 
Habit and size of A. carnosula, and like it thick and fleshy and glaucous- 
green when fresh. Stems 1-4in. long, tufted at the top of a stout 
tortuous rootstock, with several radical leaves at the base, and i-3 
cauline ones just below the inflorescence. Leaves as in A. carnosula, 2-3- 
ternately multifid with linear-subulate ultimate segments 4-4in. long. 
Umbels usually solitary, compound, terminating the stem, 1-3 in. diam. ; 
but sometimes smaller simple or compound umbels are developed in the 
axils of the cauline leaves. Involucral bracts 4—6, linear, flat, acute, quite 
entire or rarely forked, much shorter than the umbel; rays 6-12, stout, 
rigid, Secondary umbels small, many-flowered ; bracts of the involucels 
8-12, linear, quite entire. Flowers crowded, white or pink, much as in 
A. carnosula but rather larger and with more prominent calyx-teeth. 
“cis not seen.—Ligusticum diversifolium Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
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