Angelica. | UMBELLIFERAE. 683 
unbranched, equalling or longer pee the leaves. Umbels compound, 
4-]4in. diam.; rays 4-8, unequal, 4-1 in. long; ; involucral bracts few, 
pvatelenecolere. Flowers small, white. Fruit din. long, rounded or 
slightly cordate at the base; carpels 5-winged, the 2 lateral wings much 
wider than the 3 dorsal. Vittae 1 under each furrow and 2 on the com- 
missural side.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 223. Aciphylla decipiens 
Hook. f. and Benth. Gen. Plant. i (1867) 916. Ligusticum decipiens 
T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 205. 
Souta Isranp: Not uncommon in mountain districts from Nelson to Otago. 
2000-6000 ft. December—January. 
Closely resembling Anisotome aromutica in foliage, but the inflorescence and fruit 
are altogether different. Mr. Kirk refers it to Ligusticum (= Antsotome) ; but all the 
fruiting specimens I have seen have the lateral wings of the carpels much wider 
than the dorsal. 
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3. A. trifoliolat Woaeane nm Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxi (1899) 425.— 
Slender perfectly glabrous, 3-9in. high; stems creeping and rooting at 
the base; branches few, spreading. Leaves on rather long slender petioles, 
3-foliolate or pinnate ; leaflets few, in 1 or 2 distant pairs, see or again 
ternately divided ; petiolule slender, 3 1_j1in. long; blade }in., rhombeo- 
orbicular or flabellate, cuneate at the base, crenate-dentate at the rounded 
tip, rather membranous, glaucous below; veins reticulated. Umbels 
small, compound ; primary rays few, secondary 3-5; involucral bracts 
minute, linear. Flowers small, white; styles rather long, slender, spread- 
ing. Fruit 4in. long, narrow ovate-cordate; carpels compressed, with 
a broad lateral wing on each side, dorsal ribs narrower but conspicuous. 
Vittae 1 under each furrow and 2 on the commissural face.—Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 223. Ligusticum trifoliclatum Hook. f. Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. (1864) 97; Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 206. Pe 
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Sout Isutanp: Canterbury—Swampy ground by the Kowai River, and in ras | 
vicinity of Porter’s Pass, Haast, Cockayne ! “A. Wall / 2000-3000 ft. “< 
Apparently a rare and local plant, quite unlike any other species. I have seen 
very few specimens. 
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a A Pane Hook. > Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 98.—Stems 2-5 ft. 
long, much branched, scrambling over rocks and shrubs; branches slender, 
terete, flexuose ; internodes 1-3in. long. Leaves small, alternate, 1-folio- 
late, of young plants 3-foliolate or 3-lobed; petiole slender, 4-4 in. ees 
sheaths broad, produced into 2 blunt lobes at the top; ieatlota 4 43 in. 
diam., orbicular-ovate or rhomboid or transversely oblong, often oaneate 
at the base, rounded at the tip, obscurely crenate-dentate, rather thin 
and membranous, finely reticulate. Umbels small, terminal and lateral, 
on short peduncles; rays 2—5, very slender, about 41in. long; involucral 
bracts few, short, linear-subulate. Flowers small, white; petals inflexed 
at the tips. Fruit #+in. long, oblong-ovoid, cordate at the base; carpels 
1uch compressed, the lateral wings very broad, pale and membranous. 
Vittae 1° under each furrow and 2 on the commissure.—T. Kirk 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 2138; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 224. Anisotome 
geniculata Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 90, t. 19. Peucedanum geni- 
culatum Forst. f. Prodr. (1786) n. 136; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 
272; A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) n. 507. Bowlesia geniculata Spreng. 
Umbellaf. 14, t. 5. 
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