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æquîilibus lineari-oblongis, jugis 5 omnibus æqualiter alatis, semine canaliculato. Ligusticum aromaticum.
Banks et 8ol. M8B. et Ic.
H a b . Northern Island. East and south coasts, and interior, Banks and Solander, Colenso, etc. Middle
Island, Bidwill, Lyall, etc.
The smallest species I know, 8 inches to a foot high. Leaves all radical, except one at each fork of the stem,
recurved. Petiole 4-6 inches long, stout, jointed, with eight pair of pinnæ extending nearly to the base, x inch broad
across the pinnæ, which are coriaceous, deeply veined, cuneate-orbicular, more or less deeply toothed, or cut into
linear segments, each ending in a little bristle. Stems or scapes slender, sparingly divided. Male umbels l-g-2
inches across, many-flowered ; flowers white, one line across. Calyx lobes variable, sometimes obsolete. Female
umbels much smaller, contracted, fewer-flowered. Involucral leaves partial and general, few, linear-subulate, shorter
than the pedxmcles. Fruit shortly pedicellate. Caipels linear, 2 lines long, equal, each with flve winged ribs.
Seeds deeply grooved.—Very variable in the amount and depth of lobing of the pinnæ : sometimes they are cut to
the base, and I have a specimen fi*om Mr. Colenso (without flower) of what may be a variety of this (but more probably
a new species), in whicli the leaflet is pinnate, with a few irregular linear, aristate, lobed pinnules.
Siibgenus E ustylis.
Pmctus late ovatus, dorso valde compressus. Carpella 5-7-juga, jugis 2 lateralibus late alatis, 3-5
dorsalibus filiformibus. Semen alte sulcatum. Styli recti, elongati.—SuftVutices, ramis subscandentibus v.
jiagellatis.
The gi-eat breadth of the lateral wings of the carpels and length of the styles, are the only technical characters
of this subgenus : the remarkable subscandent habit, and elongated woody-branched stems, are features so different
from those of Umbelliferæ in general, and from the other Anisotomes, as to afford a better character.—A. Gingidium,
in its equal broad-winged carpels and rather long styles, should perhaps be included here, but its habit-is that of the
herbaceous species.
5. Anisotome Hook. fil. ; suffruticosa, caule tortuoso subscandente ramoso, fobis oppositis
imparipinnatis, foliobs oppositis sessibbus oblique oblongo-ovatis acutis serratis basi utrinque stipellatis !
reticulatim venosis infimis interdum compositis, involucri foliobs jiaucis lineari-subulatis, fl.oribus unisexualibus,
carpeUis ovato-cordatis. Angelica? rosæfolia, Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 581.
Ha b . Northern Islands, south of Auckland; not unfrequent, Sinclair, Colenso, etc. Nat. name,
“ Koheriki," Colenso.
Stems thicker than a goose-quill, hard and woody, several feet long, much hranched. Branches covered with membranous
sheaths of old leaves, leafy upwards. Petioles 3-5 inches long, with the vagina produced into ovate membranous
auricles on each side, jointed at the insertion of the pinnæ. Leaflets two to six pair, spreading, opposite,
sessile, 1- 2^ inches long, obliquely ovate or linear-lanceolate, simply or doubly serrate, sharp, each with two small
deciduous membranous stipules at the base, on the upper and under surface of the leaflets. Umbels 1-4 inches across.
Involucral leaves four to eight, linear-subulate, shorter than the peduncles. Flowers white, unisexual. Pedicels as
long as the carpels, which are ovate, cordate, usually equal and five-ribbed, but sometimes one is seven-ribbed, the
five dorsal ribs being fibfonn.—The stipellæ at the base of the pinnæ are, I believe, not found in any other plant
belonging to this Natural Order.
6. Anisotome geniculata, Hook, fib; caule tenui elongato ramosissimo subscandente, ramis flagellatis
genicnlatis apices versus distanter fobosis, foliis vaginatis 1- rarius 3-foliolatis, petiolo gracili, fobolo rhom-
beo-ovato v. rotundato obtuso basi cuneato v. truncato obscure crenato reticulatim venoso rarius lobato v.
tripartito, umbellis parvis terminalibus lateralibusque, involucri foliolis paucis inconspicuis, floribus minimis,
carpelbs ut in priore. Peueedaiium ? g e n i c u l a t u m , BC. Prodr. A. Pick. Mora. A. Cunn.
Prodr. Bowlesia, Schultz et Sprengel. T a b . XX.
H a b . Northern Island; south coast and interior, Colenso. Middle Island, Forster, Baoul,etc.
This most remarkable plant more resembles Polygonum complexum than any Umbellifer. Mr. Colenso says it
forms a tangled mass, scrambling over shrubs, etc., a habit quite foreign to any of the Natural Order except A. rosæfolia.
Stems very slender, several feet long, much branched, terete. Branches jointed, fiexuose, internodes 3-3
inches Ion»-. Leaves with bnear sheaths, produced upwards into blunt rounded auricles. Petioles very sleiider,
inch long. Leaflets usually solitary, variable in form, i - i inch broad, rhomboid, rounded, or obovate with cuneate
bases, entire, tbree-lobed or tripartite, obscmæly crenate, finely reticulate. Umbels lateral or terminal, simple or
compound, of small white unisexual flowers. Fruit membranous, similar to that of A. rosæfolia in form and size,
large in comparison with the leaves and flowers.—P l a t e XX. Eig. 1, umbel of fruit :—natural size. 3, petiole and
vagina; 3, male flower; 4, its stylopodia ; 5, 6, female flowers ; 7, petal; 8, ripe fruit ; 9, transverse section of the
same -.—all magnified.
Gen. Y III. DAÜCUS, Tourn.
Fructus doiso compressus, oblongus. Carpelta plano-convexa; jugis primariis 5, setosis, 3 dorsalibus,
2 sutura commissurali impositis ; secundariis 4, prominulis, aculeatis ; valleculis vittatis. Semen antice
plaiiiuseulum. Calycis limbus 5-dentatus. Petata apice iuflexa, exteriora sæpe radiantia. Umbella compositæ.
Involucri foHola Simplicia v. pinnatifida.
This large European genus, to which the Carrot belongs, is represented in New Zealand, Tasmania, and South
Australia by one species, little like the garden plant in appearance, but agreeing in botanical characters very closely.
It may be recognized at once by its prickly fruit and much-divided leaves. Calyx limb ñve-toothed. Petals wdth a
deep notch and inflected apex ; the outer ones of the outer flowers in each umbel are very large in some species of the
genus, hnt not in the New Zealand one. Carpels oblong, with nine ribs, of which four are very prominent, and form
a scries of stiff spines barbed at the apex ; the five intermediate ones (of which two are on the flat inner surface of
the carpel) are much smaller, and bear each a double row of bristles pointing right and left. (Name, bavKos, in Greek.)
1. Daucus hracUatus, Sieb.; erectus, ramosus, pilosas v. glabratus, foliis bipiunatisectis, segmentis mul-
tifidis incisis ultimis liuearibus, umbeUis pauciradiatis, radiis inæquilongis, foliolis involucri simplicibus
V. foliaceis involncelli simplicibus pedicellis brevioribus, petalis minimis rubris, jugis secundariis frnctus
oblongi pectinatis acidéis apice glocbidiatis. Sieber, PI. Fxsicc. p . 115. 1)C. Prodr. v. 4. p . 214. Caucaüs
glochidiata, Poiret. Scandix, Lab. Nov. Holt. v. \ . p . 75. i. 102. C. tenuifolia. Banks et Sol. MSS.
H a b . Northern Island; Auckland, Sinclair; east coast, etc., Colenso. Middle Island; Akaroa,
Eaoul.
Plants pilose or smooth. Stems many from the root, 6 inches to a foot high, branched, slender in flower, stout in
fruit. Leaves chiefly radical, with a slender petiole, bi-tri-pinnate ; pinnæ multipartite, flaccid ; pinnules cut into linear
narrow segments, 1-2 lines long. Umiels axillary and terminal, of eight to ten very unequal rays, i-1 inch
long in frait. Involucre ; general, simple or multipai'tite, bke a leaf ; partial small, of few short linear-subulate rays.
Petals very small, scarlet. Carpels 1 line long.—A common plant in South Australia and Tasmania ; very closely
allied to a North and South American species, the fl. australis, Poepp., fl. pusillus, Mx., fl. mkrophyllus, Presl,
Z). scaier, Niltt., as also to fl. toriloides, DC., of various parts of South America, from Mexico to Juan Fernandez,
all which species I agree wdth Bentham (Plant. Hiigel.) and Bunge (Plant. Preiss.) in considering should be united.
Gen. IX. OEEOMYEEHIS, Endl.
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Fructus obloiigo-obovatus, a latere subcompressus, stjdis coroiiatus. Carpella jugis 5 obtusis promi-
iiulis, 2 marginalibus, 3 dorsalibus; valleculis 1-vittatis. Semen antice planiusculum v. concamm. Petala
apice incurva, pilosa. (/«SeZfa simplex; pedicellis floriferis brevissimis, fructiferis sæpe elongatis. Inro-
hicrim polyphyllum.