Daucus. | UMBELLIFERAE. 685 
deeply incised or pinnatifid; segments smali, lnear-oblong, minutely 
mucronulate. Umbels axillary or terminal, compound; primary rays 
4-10, very unequal in size; imvolucral bracts entire or pinnately divided. 
Flowers small. Fruit ovoid, about $in. long; carpels with the secondary 
ridges much the largest, and Dearie a single row of purplish hooked 
bristles ; primary with a double row of finer bristles pointing right and leit. 
—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 91; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) “99 Benth. 
Fl. Austral. mi (1866) 376; T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 214; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 225. Scandix glochidiata Lab. Fl. Nov. Holl. i (1804) 
ee 
75, t. 102. 
NortH AND SoutH Istanps, CHatTHAM -IstaAnps: Abundant in lowland districts 
throughout. October—December. 
The allied D. carota L., the origin of the cultivated carrot, has become naturalized 
in several localities in both Islands. It can be distinguished from D. brachiatus by its 
greater size, broader leaf-segments, and much larger ‘compact flat-topped umbels. 
Family LXXViil. CORNACEAE. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate, usually entire; stipules 
wanting. Flowers generally small, regular, hermaphrodite or unisexual, in 
axillary or terminal cymes, panicles, or heads. Calyx-tube adnate to the 
ovary, limb 4-5-toothed or wanting. Petals 4-5 or wanting, inserted round 
the margin of an epigynous disc, valvate or imbricate. Stamens inserted 
with the “petals and equal to them in number, rarely twice as many. Ovary 
inferior, 1—4-celled, crowned by a fleshy dise ; style single (3 in Gy yselinia), 
long or short ; ovules solitary (rarely 2-3), pendulous irom the top of the 
cell, anatropous. Fruit usually drapaceous, indehiscent, 1-4-celled, or 
rarely with 2 pyrenes. Seed pendulous, testa thin; albumen copious, 
fleshy ; embryo axiie, radicle superior. 
A small family, scattered over the whole world, but chiefly found in the North 
Temperate Zone. Genera 12; species 85. Properties unimportant. Of the 2 New 
Zealand genera, Corokia is endemic ; ; Griselinia extends to South America, 
Hermaphrodite. Leaves narrow, silky-tomentose below .. 1. Coroxta. 
Dioecious. Leaves broad, glabrous .. es id .. 2, GRISELINIA. 
1. COROKIA A. Cunn. 1$34 . 
Hivergreen shrubs ; branches straight or tortuous; bark black. Leaves 
alternate or fascicled, petiolate, entire. Flowers smali, hermaphrodite, 
yellow, in axillary or terminal panicles, racemes, or fascicles. € alyx-tube 
turbinate; limb 5-lobed, valvate. Petals 5, valvate, furnished with a 
small scale at the base, silky Reh Stamens 5. Ovary 1-2-celled ; 
style short; stigma almost capitate, 2-lobed. Drupe ovoid or broadly 
oblong, crowned by the persistent AAS: ge 1-2-celled ; seeds 1 in each 
Beil C. eatharnsk ( Kens But, dy, 
A small genus of 4 species, confined to the New Zealand area, (2). Sz 
Leaves lanceolate. Flowers in terminal panicles cy ae ie Gade es: 
Leaves obiong-lanceolate. Flowers in axillary racemes -- 2. C. macrocarpa, 
Leaves oblanceolate to oblong-lanceolate. Flowers in axillary 
fascicles or few-flowered terminal panicles .. 3. CO. Cheesemanii. 
Leaves orbicular or obovate, narrowed into short flat petioles. 
Flowers in few-flowered fascicles or solitary -» 4. C. Cotoneaster. 
