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684 UMBELLIFERAE. | Angelica. 
Nortu Istanp: Rare and local. East Cape and interior, Golenso ; Port Nichol- 
son, Buchanan! mouth of the Wainuiomata River, B. C. Aston! Paekakariki, H. B. 
Kirk. Sovru Isnanp: Marlborough—Motuaro Island, Queen Charlotte Sound, J. 4. 
Macmahon ! Nelson—Waiau Valley, C. E. Christensen, Canterbury—Vicinity of Culver- 
den and Waimakariri Gorge, Cockayne ; Banks Peninsula, not uncommon near the sea, 
Raoul, T. Kirk! R, M, Laing / Spencer! Malvern Hills, Broken River, Mount Torlesse, , 
Cockayne ; gorge of the Rakaia, H. H. Alian! Otago—Not rare on the eastern 
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coast, Buchanan! Petrie! base of Rock and Pillar Range, Cockayne. Sea-ievel to 
1500 ft. December—February. ad ce ee 
A yery curious little plant, quite unlike any Umbellifer known to me, 
5. A. rosaefolia Hook. Ic. Plant. (1843) t. 581.—Stems 2-5 ft. long, 
much branched, scrambling over rocks or among bushes, hard and almost 
woody below, clothed with the persistent sheaths of the old leaves. 
Leaves cauline, alternate, 2-5 in. long, pinnate; leaflets 2-5 pairs, 1-24 in. 
long, opposite, sessile, ovate or ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, often 
oblique at the base, acute, finely serrate, submembranous or coriaceous, 
velns reticulated; petiole slender, rigid; sheaths broad, membranous, 
2-lobed at the top. Umbels many, terminal and axillary, compound, 
1-3 in. diam.; rays numerous, slender; involucral bracts linear or lanceo- 
late. Flowers white. Fruit $in. long, ovate-cordate ; carpels with broad 
lateral wings. Vittae 1 under each furrow and 2 on the commissural 
face.—Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 98; TZ. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 
212; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 224; JU. N.Z. Fl..i (1914) t. 69. 
Anisotome rosaefolia Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 90. 
NortH Istanp: Not uncommon on rocky shores from the Three Kings Islands 
to the Hast Cape and Raglan: rare inland, and much less abundant farther south. 
Hawke's Bay, dA. Hamilton! Petrie! Ruahine Range, Harding! B. O. Aston / 
Kaimanawa Mountains, B. C. Aston! Upper Rangitikei, Buchanan! Sours Istanp: 
Reported from Akaroa by Raoul, but has not been seen of late years. Sea-level 
to 2000 ft. Koherika ; Kohepiro. October-November. 
This and the preceding species are anomalous in the family from their subscandent 
stems. The leaflets are furnished with a pair of minute stipellae at the base—one 
on the upper surface, the other below. 
14. DAUCUS Linn. 1944¢ 
Annual or biennial herbs, usually hispid. Leaves decompound, ultimate 
segments narrow. Umbels compound; rays numerous; bracts of the 
general involucre usually pinnatisect. Flowers white. Calyx-teeth small 
or obsolete. Petals often unequal, inflexed at the tips. Fruit ovoid or 
oblong, terete or slightly dorsally compressed; carpels convex, with 5 
slender bristly primary ribs, and 4 winged secondary ones bearing rows of 
hooked bristles. Vittae 1 under each secondary rib and 2 on the commis- 
sural face. Seed flattened dorsally. 
Species about 60, chiefly found in the temperate portions of the Northern Hemi- 
sphere, and most abundant in the Mediterranean region. The single New Zealand 
Species 1s also common in Australia and Tasmania. | 
Dv. dative (Lolitt) Aenkor, cx bolle me 
1. D. rachiatus Szeb. in DC. Prodr. iv (1830) 214.—An erect annual ~ 
or biennial branching herb, very variable in size, 6-18 in. high, more or 
less bristly with short stiff hairs, rarely almost glabrous. Leaves flaccid, 
on long slender petioles, 2-3-pinnate ; primary leaflets 4-6 pairs ; secondary 
