Amnisotome. | UMBELLIFERAE. 681 
coriaceous shining leaves. Leaves }-3in. long; petioles very short, with 
large broad membranous sheaths produced upwards into a hooded ligule : 
blade with a broad flattened rhachis and 4-8 pairs of closely placed often 
imbricating leaflets; leafiets sessile, palmately 3-6-lobed; lobes termi- 
nated by a stout bristle longer than the lobes. Umbels smail, sumple or 
compound, sunk among the leaves ; involucral bracts few, linear-subulate. 
Fruit broadly ovoid ; ‘carpels 5- -winged. —Ligusticum imbricatum Hook. f. 
Handb. N.Z, Fl. (1864) 97; T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 205; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 221. 
South Istanp: High peaks from the north of Nelson and Marlborough to 
Southland, not at all uncommon. 4000-6500 ft. January—February. 
A very remarkable little plant, easily known by its small size, densely tufted habit, 
imbricated leaves, short peduncles sunk among the leaves, and broad fruit. 
GK? 
19. A. Enysiif. M. Laing in Trans. N.Z, Inst. xliv (1912) 66.— Small, 
stout, depressed, glaucous-green, seldom more than 4in. high. Root stout, 
often very long. Leaves all radical, 11-3 in. long, spreading or decurved, 
thick and coriaceous when fresh, linear or linear-oblong, pinnate ; leaflets 3-6 
pairs, $-71n. long, sessile, ovate or ovate- -orbicular, sharply toothed or 
lobed ; lobes again cut, not piliferous ; petioles with very broad short 
sheaths. Flowering stems 2-4in. long, simple or forked, decumbent. 
Umbels compound; rays 2-5, slender, spreading, unequal, ‘133 in. long ; 
bracts 2-3, connate almost to-the tips into a broad cup-shaped involucre. 
Partial umbels 3-6-flowered. Fruit ovoid, jin. long; carpels with 5 
lge \ irk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 1x (1877) 
548; Students’ Fl. (1899) 205; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 221. 
Var. Tennysonianum £. M. Laing |.c.—Leaves deltoid-ovate in outline, pinnate 
with the lower pps ternately divided ; leaflets a gle sega ee in the type. 
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Sour PSEAND : Canterbt y— Limestone Sires in thre Cregy Biterihasin, J. D, 
Enys! T. Kirk! T, F.C, ; Banks Peninsula, &. ML. Laing ! ~ Otago—Naseby, Peirve ! 
Var. Tennysonianum : Mount Princess, above Lake Tennyson R. M. Laing. 1200- 
2700 ft. — December—February. 4¢2 ~ San, 
20. A. flabellata/ Cockayne ex Crosby Smith in Trans. N.Z, Inst. 
xlvi (1914) 228 (name only). — Minute, 4-14in. Iligh. Leaves all radical, 
4-1 in. long, coriaceous, linear, pinnate ; leaflets 1-3 pairs but sometimes 
reduced to a single one, 1-41in. diam., flabellate or orbicular-rhomboid, 
rounded at the tip, sessile, entire or minutely sinuate-crenate ; margins 
recurved; petioles rather stout, with broad sheathing bases. Umbels 
small, compound, on short peduncles rarely exceeding the leaves; rays. 
3-4; general involucre apparently wanting; partial involucre of 3 broad 
connate bracts open on one side. Fruit broadly oblong or ovate ; carpels 
4- or 5-winged, not seen quite rmpe.—Ligusticum flabellatum ‘T. Kirk 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 205; Cheesem. Man. NZ. Fl, (1906) 222. Aciphylla 
flabellata Cockayne in Bot. Surv. Stewart Id. (1909) 59. 
Srewart IsLanD: Crevices in rocks near the South Cape, 7’. Kirk! Mason Bay, 
Cockayne! Not uncommon in rocky places in the south and west of the isiand, 
Cockayne. . 
A very curious little plant, nearest to L. Hnysii, hut amply distinct. The 3-lobed 
partial involucre is quite unlike that of any other New Zealand species. 
