266 Transactions. — Botany. 



particularly in its stipitate pinuules, which are also largely 

 laciniate, with lobes bifid and sharply toothed, and in its 

 involucre, which is much more oblong and obtuse with entire 

 margins ; whereas in C. fragiiis and all its varieties their 

 involucres are always shown bi-oadly ovate, their bases largely 

 rounded, very acuminate, with finely serrulate margins. 

 Hooker refers to his figure of the Tasmanian fern (C. fragiiis, 

 var. ^) as being identical with the known and described New 

 Zealand species or variety ; but that is widely different from 

 this plant. 



Art. XXVII. — Phaenogams : A Description of a few more 

 Neiuly Discovered Indigenous Plants ; being a Further 

 Contribution towards the making known the Botany of 

 Netu Zealand. 



By W. CoLENSO, F.E.S., F.L.S. (Lond.), &c. 



[Read before the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, 10th October, 



1898.] 



Class I. DICOTYLEDONS. 

 Order I. Eanunculace^. 



Genus 1. -•' Clematis, Linn. 

 1. C. hillii, sp. nov. 



Branches very long and slender, climbing ; bark dark- 

 purple, striate, ribbed. Leaves and flowers together at regular 

 distances 3 in. apart, opposite on branches. Leaves on slender 

 petioles sub Sin. long, densely hairy; leaflets small, ternate, 

 petiolulate, broadly ovate, sometimes suborbicular, ^\n. 

 (rarely fin.) long, margins entu'e, sometimes irregularly"' cut 

 and serrate, base dimidiate ; green ; veined, veins prominent 

 and dark on under-surface ; veinlets anastomosing ; hairy on 

 both surfaces, hairs shining, pale ferruginous , petiolules very 

 slender, 2-3 Hues long. Flowers few, often 3 together in 

 short panicles ; peduncles and pedicels stout, densely pubes- 

 cent. Sepals 5, tawny, very silky-hairy on outside, subovate- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, tips truncate and jagged ; 5-veined ; veins 

 dark. Sta.mens numerous, 20 or more ; filaments linear- 

 lanceolate ; anthers suborbicular or broadly elhptic, flat, tips 

 very obtuse. 



Hah. Forests, slopes Euahine Mountain-range, east side ; 

 October, 1898 : Mr. H. Hill. 



* The numbers of the orders and genera given here are those of 

 them in the " Handbook of the New Zealand Flora." 



