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6. Girth of main branch of Panax, 2ft. lOin. ; of the 



other, 2ft. Sin. 



7. Girth of Ci/athea, immediately under its crown of 



fronds, 5ft. 



8. Breadth of the narrow interstices of the stem of the 



fern-tree not yet covered by the Panax : at the base, 

 2in. ; above, in the widest part, Sin. 



9. The fronds of the fern extended about 9ft. each way, 



forming a flattish arch. 



10. The lower horizontal branches of the Panax extended 



nearly equal with the fronds of the fern. 



11. The trunk of the Panax below was quite bare of epi- 



phytal vegetation (only a small young creeping plant 

 of Metrosideros scandens just climbing up at one 

 corner), but large fronds of Pol i/ podium hUlardieri 

 and other ferns hung pendulous from between the 

 two upright limbs of the Panax and the Cyathea. 



12. The longitudinal edges of the root-like descending 



lower limbs of the Panax showed exactly the appear- 

 ance of the back of a healthy tree from which a 

 limb has been clean cut oif, growing-in with thick 

 round advancing margins over the wound. 



Art. XXXIII. — A Description of some newly -discovered and rare 

 indigenous PhcBnogamic Plants, being a further Contribution 

 towards making known the Botany of New Zealand. 



By W. CoLENSo, F.E.S., F.L.S., etc. 

 [Read before the Hmcke's Bay Philosophical Institute, 11th October, 1886.] 



Class I. — Dicotyledons. 

 Oeder I.*— EANUNCULACE^. 

 Genus 1. Clematis, Linn. 

 1. C. aphylla, sp. nov. 



A slender prostrate trailing plant. Stems 2-4 feet (or 

 more) long, cylindrical, very narrow, 1 line diameter, green, 

 glabrous, striate, few-branched ; nodes at pretty regular dis- 

 tances, 5-6 inches apart. Leaves, 0. Peduncles slender, hairy, 



* The numbers in this paper attached to both orders and genera are 

 those of " The Handbook of the New Zealand Flora." 



