linear. Flowers small, white; styles rather long, slender, spreading. Fruit ¼ in. long, narrow ovate-cordate; carpels compressed, with a broad lateral wing on each side, dorsal ribs narrower but conspicuous. Vittæ 1 under each furrow and 2 on the commissural face.—Ligusticum trifoliolatum, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 97; Kirk, Students Fl. 206.
South Island: Canterbury—Swampy ground near the Kowai River, Haast, Cockayne!
Apparently a very rare and local plant, quite unlike any other species. I have only seen one rather indifferent specimen.
4. A. geniculata, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 98.—Stems 2–5 ft. long, much branched, scrambling over rocks and shrubs; branches slender, terete, flexuose; internodes 1–3 in. long. Leaves small, alternate, 1-foliolate, of young plants 3-foliolate or 3-lobed; petiole slender, ¼–½ in. long; sheaths broad, produced into 2 blunt lobes at the top; leaflets ¼–½ in. diam., orbicular-ovate or rhomboid or transversely oblong, often cuneate at the base, rounded at the tip, obscurely crenate-dentate, rather thin and membranous, finely reticulate. Umbels small, terminal and lateral, on short peduncles; rays 2–5, very slender, about ⅓ in. long; involucral bracts few, short, linear-subulate. Flowers small, white; petals inflexed at the tips. Fruit 15 in. long, oblong-ovoid, cordate at the base; carpels much compressed, the lateral wings very broad, pale and membranous. Vittæ 1 under each furrow and 2 on the commissure.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 213. Anisotome geniculata, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 90, t. 19. Peucedanum geniculatum, Forst. Prodr. n. 136; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 272; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 507. Bowlesia geniculata, Spreng. Umbellif. 14, t. 5.
North Island: Rare and local. East Cape and interior, Colenso; Port Nicholson, Buchanan! Paikakariki, H. B. Kirk. South Island: Akaroa, Raoul, Kirk! gorge of the Waimakariri, Cockayne; east coast of Canterbury and Otago, Armstrong, Buchanan! Petrie! G. M. Thomson! January–February.
5. A. rosaefolia, Hook. Ic. Plant. 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, 1–2½ in. long, opposite, sessile, ovate or ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, often oblique at the base, acute, finely serrate, submembranous or coriaceous, veins 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 lanceolate. Flowers white. Fruit 18 in. long, ovate-cordate; carpels with broad lateral wings. Vittæ 1 under each furrow and 2 on the commissural face.—Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 98; Kirk, Students' Fl. 212. Anisotome rosæfolia, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 90.
