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æqmüibus lineari-oblongis, jugis 5 omnibus æqualiter alatis, semine canaliculato. Ligusticum aromaticum.
Ba n k s et Sol. M S S . et Ic.
H a b . N o rth e rn Islan d . E a st and south coasts, and interior, B a n k s a n d Solander, Colenso, etc. Ylid-
dle Islan d , B idw ill, L y a ll, 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, 4 inch broad
across the pinnæ, wliich are coriaceous, deeply veined, cuneate-orbicular, more or less deeply toothed, or cut into
linear segments, each ending in a little bristle. S tem or scapes slender, sparingly divided. Male umbels 14-2
inches across, many-flowered ; flowers white, one line across. Calyx lobes variable, sometimes obsolete. Female
umbels much smaller, contracted, fewer-liowered. Involucral leaves partial and general, few, linear-subulate, shorter
than the pedimcles. Fruit shortly pedicellate. Carpels linear, 2 lines long, equal, each with five winged ribs.
Seeds deeply grooved.—Very variable iu the amount and depth of lobing of the pinnæ : sometimes they are cut to
the base, and I have a specimen from Mr. Colenso (without flower) of what may be a variety of this (but more probably
a new species), in which the leaflet is pinnate, with a few irregular linear, aristate, lobed pinnules.
Subgenus E u sty l is .
Fructns late ovatus, dorso valde compressus. Carpella 5 -7 -ju g a , ju g is 2 lateralibus late alatis, 3 -5
dorsalibus filiformibus. Semen alte sulcatum. S ty li recti, elongati.— Suifrutices, ramis suhscandentibus v.
fiagellatis.
The gi'eat breadth of the lateral wings of the carpels and length of the styles, are the only technical characters
of this snbgenus : the remarkable subscandent habit, and elongated woody-branclied 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 Ho o k . fil. ; suffruticosa, caule tortuoso subscandente ramoso, foliis oppositis
imparipinnatis, foliolis oppositis sessilibus oblique oblongo-ovatis acutis serratis basi u trin q u e stipellatis !
reticulatim venosis infimis interd um compositis, involucri foliolis jiaucis lineari-subulatis, floribus u n isexualibus,
carpeUis ovato-cordatis. Angelica? rosæfolia, Kook. Ic. F ia n t, t. 581.
H ab . N o rth e rn Islands, south of A u ck lan d ; n o t unfrequent, Sinclair, Colenso, etc. N a t. name,
"K o h e rik i,” Colenso.
Stems thicker than a goose-quill, hard and woody, several feet long, much branched. 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, 1-24 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 filiform.— The stipellæ at the base of the pinnæ are, I believe, not found in any other plant
belonging to this Natural Order.
6. Anisotome geniculaia, Hook. fil. ; caule ten u i elongato ramosissimo subscandente, ramis fiagellatis
geniculatis apices versus d istan ter foliosis, foliis vaginatis 1- rarius 3-foliolatis, petiolo gracili, foliolo rhom-
beo-ovato v. ro tunda to obtuso basi cuneato v. trunc ato obscure crenato reticulatim venoso rarius lobato v.
tripartito, umbellis parvis terminalibus lateralibusque, involucri foliolis paucis inconspicuis, floribus minimis,
carpellis u t in priore. Peucedanum? geniculatum, Zbriier. BC . Prodr. A. Hick. Flora. A . Cunn.
Frodr. Bowlesia, Schultz et Sprengel. Tab. XX.
H a b . N o rth e rn Is la n d ; south coast and interior, Colenso. Middle Islan d , Forster, Ra o u l,etc .
This most remarkable plant more resembles Polygonum eomplexum 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, flexuose, internodes 2-3
inches long. Leaves with linear sheaths, produced upwards into blunt rounded am-icles. Petioles very slender, 4-4
inch long. Leaflets usually solitary, variable in form, 4-4, inch broad, rhomboid, rounded, or obovate with cuneate
bases, entire, three-lobed or tripartite, obscm-ely 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 aud flowers.— P l a t e XX. Fig. 1, umbel of fruit -.— natural size. 2, 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. V I I I . DAUCUS, Toum.
Fructus dorso compressus, oblongus. Carpella plano-convexa; ju g is primariis 5, setosis, 3 dorsalibus,
2 su tu ra commissurali impositis ; secundariis 4, prominulis, aculeatis ; valleculis v ittatis. Semen antice
plaiiiusculum. Calycis limbus 5-dentatus. F e ta la apice inflexa, exteriora sæpe radiantia. JJmbelloe compositæ.
Involucri folióla 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 aud much-divided leaves. Calyx limb flve-toothed. Petah with 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, but not in the New Zealand one. Carpeh oblong, with nine ribs, of which four are very prominent, and form
a series of stiff spines barbed at the apex ; the flve 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, taems, in Greek.)
1. Daucus hracUatm, Sieb.; erectus, ramosus, pilosus v. glabratus, foliis bipinnatisectis, segmentis mul-
tifldis incisis ultimis linearibus, umbeUis pauciradiatis, radiis inæquilongis, foliolis involucri simplicibus
V . foliaceis involucelli simplicibus pedicellis brevioribus, petalis minimis rubris, ju g is secundariis fructus
oblongi pectinatis aculéis apice glochidiatis. Sieber, P I. E x s ic c .p . 1 1 5 . EC . Prodr. v. 4. p . 2 14. Caucalis
glochidiata, Poiret. Scandix, Lab. Nov. Ho ll. v. l . p . 75. t. 102. C. tenuifolia. B a n k s et Sol. M S S .
H a b . N o rth e rn Is la n d ; Auckland, S in c la ir ; east coast, etc., Colenso. Middle Is la n d ; Akaroa,
Baoul.
Planh 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, Umbeh axillary and terminal, of eight to ten very unequal rays, j - 1 inch
loim in fruit. Involucre; general, simple or multipartite, like a leaf; partial small, of few short linear-subulate rays.
Petals very small, scarlet. Carpeh 1 line long.—A common plant in South Australia and Tasmania; very closely
allied to a North and South American species, the D. australh, Poepp., I), piasillus, Mx., D. microphyllus, Presl,
i). scaier, Nutt., as also to B. toiiloides, DC., of various parts of South America, from Mexico to Juan Fernandez,
all wliich species I agree with Bentham (Plant. Hugel.) and Bunge (Plant. Preiss.) in considering should be united.
Gen. IX . O E EOM Y R EH IS , E n d l.
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Fructus ohlongo-obovatus, a latere subcompressus, stylis corouatus. Carpella ju g is 5 obtusis prominulis,
2 marginalibus, 3 dorsalibus ; valleculis 1-vittatis. Semen antice planiusculum v. concavum. Petala
apice incurva, pilosa. simplex ; pedicellis floriferis brevissimis, fructiferis sæpe elongatis. Inrolucrnm
polyphyllum.