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222 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, $1⁄8$ in. long; carpels with 5 obscure ridges.—Students' Fl. 205.

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, $1⁄5$–$1⁄3$ 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.

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.

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