compound; rays 2–5, slender, spreading, unequal, ¼–¾ in. long; bracts 2–3, connate almost to the tips into a broad cup-shaped involucre. Partial umbels 3–6-flowered. Fruit ovoid, 18 in. long; carpels with 5 obscure ridges.—Students' Fl. 205.
South Island: Canterbury—Limestone shingle in the Broken River basin, Enys! Kirk! T.F.C. Otago—Naseby, Petrie! 1500–2500 ft. December–January.
17. L. flabellatum, T. Kirk, Students Fl. 205.—Minute, ½–1½ in. high. Leaves all radical, ¼–1 in. long, coriaceous, linear, pinnate; leaflets 1–3 pairs but sometimes reduced to a single one, 15–13 in. diam., flabellate or orbicular-rhomboid, rounded at the tip, sessile, entire or minutely sinuate-crenate; margins recurved; petioles rather stout, with broad sheathing bases. Umbels small, compound, on short peduncles rarely exceeding the leaves; rays 3–4; general involucre apparently wanting; partial involucre of 3 broad connate bracts open on one side. Fruit broadly oblong or ovate; carpels 4- or 5-winged, not seen quite ripe.
Stewart Island: Crevices of syenitic rocks near the South Cape, Kirk!
A very curious little plant, nearest to L. Enysii, but amply distinct. The 3-lobed partial involucre is quite unlike that of any other New Zealand species.
10. ANGELICA, Linn.
Perennial herbs, often tall and stout, usually erect, rarely scrambling or subscandent. Leaves pinnate or 2–3-pinnate. Umbels compound, diœcious or polygamous. Calyx-teeth usually obsolete, rarely prominent. Petals incurved at the apex. Fruit ovate or oblong, more or less dorsally flattened with a broad commissure; carpels 5-ribbed, the 2 lateral ribs very broad, forming a wing on each side of the carpel, the 3 dorsal much smaller and narrower. Vittæ 1 or 2 in each furrow, rarely more. Seed much dorsally compressed, plane or concave on the inner face.
A genus of about 30 species, in the Northern Hemisphere scattered through North America, Europe, and western Asia, in the Southern Hemisphere restricted to the five following species endemic in New Zealand.
| * Herbaceous, erect. Leaves mostly radical. | |
| Tall, stout, 1–2 ft. Leaves pinnate; leaflets many, 1–2 in., crenate | 1. A. Gingidium. |
| Slender, 3–6 in. Leaves pinnate; leaflets many, pinnatifid | 2. A. decipiens. |
| Slender, 3–9 in. Leaves 3-foliolate or pinnate; leaflets 1–2 pairs, rhombeo-orbicular, crenate | 3. A. trifoliolatum. |
| ** Suffruticose, subscandent. Leaves cauline. | |
| Leaves 1-foliolate or 3-foliolate; leaflets small, ¼–½ in. | 4. A. geniculata. |
| Leaves pinnate; leaflets 2–5 pairs, large, 1–2½ in. | 5. A. rosæfolia. |
1. A. Gingidium, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 97.—A stout, erect, highly aromatic herb, 1–2 ft. high. Root thick and fleshy. Stems ¼–½ in. diam. at the base, smooth and striate, sparingly branched
