2, RANUNCULACEZ. [ Clematis. 
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Stamens many. Carpels numerous, each with one pendulous ovule. 
Fruit a head of sessile achenes, in all the New Zealand species pro- 
duced into long feathery persistent styles. 
A genus of over 100 species, found in most temperate climates, rare in the 
-tropics. The New Zealand species are all endemic, and all possess once- or 
twice-ternately divided leaves and dicecious flowers, the males without any 
carpels, the females usually with a few imperfect stamens. Most of them vary 
greatly in the foliage, especially the large-leaved species. These in their normal 
state have 3-foliolate leaves with the leaflets toothed or lobed, but all run into 
varieties in which the leaves are biternate or decompound, the ultimate segments 
being much reduced in size. These forms are most difficult of discrimination, 
especially when in a flowerless condition, and some of them are probably not 
permanent states. 
A. Sepals white. 
Large and stout. Leaflets usually entire. Flowers 2-4 in. 
diam. ‘ se os ys ae .- L. C, mdiisa, 
Slender, pale- -green. Leaflets toothed or lobed. Flowers 
1-14 in. diam. ee . 2%. C. hexasepala. 
Small, slender. Leaflets pinnate or ‘pinnately divided. 
Flowers 4-1 in. diam. ae ; Be .. 3. C. australis. 
B. Sepals yellowish or greenish-yellow (purplish in C. quadribracteolata). 
* Sepals usually 6 (5-8). Leaflets usually large and well developed. 
Slender. Leaflets glabrous or nearly so, toothed or lobed. 
Flowers greenish-yellow. Sepals silky - 4. C. Colensot. 
Stout. Leaflets coriaceous, pubescent, toothed or lobed. 
Flowers yellow. Sepals densely tomentose .. 5. C. fetida. 
Slender. Leaflets thin, silky-pubescent, often entire. 
Flowers yellow. Sepals silky Anthers broad, tipped 
with a minute appendage .. eee we .. 6. C. parviflora 
** Sepals 4. Leaflets minute, wanting in C. afolata. 
Usually leafless. Flowers greenish-white, }-?in. diam... 17. C. afoliata. 
Slender, brownish-green. Leaflets minute, 4-4in. long, 
entire or toothed. Flowers yellow, 4 in. diam. .. 8. C. marata. 
Very slender. Leaflets minute, usually linear. Flowers 
purplish, 4-3in. diam. Sepals narrow-linear .. 9. C. quadribracteo- 
lata. 
1. C. indivisa, Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 1291.—A large woody 
climber, often covering bushes or small trees. Stem stout, tfre- 
quently as thick as a man’s arm. Leaves 3-foliolate, coriaceous, 
glabrous; leaflets 1-4in. long, all stalked, ovate-oblong or ovate- 
cordate, rarely narrower and _ linear-oblong, usually entire. 
Flowers in axillary panicles, most abundantly produced, large, 
white, 2-4in. diam. Sepals 6-8, oblong. Anthers oblong, obtuse. 
Achenes numerous, downy, with a plumose tail often more than 
2in. long.—A. Rich. Fl Nouv. Zel. 288; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 635 ; 
Raoul, Chow, 47; Hook. f. Fl. Niv. Zel. 1.6; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 2; 
Kirk, Students’ Fl. 2; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4398 (a form with the 
leaflets lobed). C. integrifola, Horst. Prodr. n. 231. 
Var. lobulata, Kirk, Students’ Fl. 2.— Leaflets lobed or even twice 
ternate. 
Norra Anp SourH Isntanps, Srewarr Isuanp: Abundant throughout. 
Sea-level to 2500 ft. Puawhananga. August-—November. 
