4 RANUNCULACES. (Clematis. 
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Var. rutaefolia, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 7.—Leaves biternate or bipin- 
nate ; secondary leaflets often stalked. Usually smaller than the type. 
Nortu Isuanp: Both varieties common about Wellington, and extending 
northward to Hawke’s Bay and Cape Egmont. SourH Isntanp: Nelson— 
Wairau Valley, Buller Valley, T. F. C. Canterburv—Kowai River, Petrie! 
Ashley Gorge, Cockayne ! Sea-level to 3000 ft. November—January. 
A variable plant, not always readily distinguishable from states of 
C. hexasepala or C. australis. 
5. C. foetida, Raoul, Choix, 23, t. 22.—Stems stout, woody ; 
branches numerous, intertwined, often covering bushes or small 
trees; young shoots clothed with fulvous pubescence. Leaves 
3-foliolate, slightly coriaceous, usually thinly pubescent on both 
surfaces, but often becoming glabrous when old; leaflets 1-2in. 
long, all stalked, ovate or ovate-cordate, acute or acuminate, entire 
or irregularly toothed or lobed. Panicles large, much divided ; 
branches usually densely clothed with pale or fulvous tomentum. 
Flowers very numerous, small, $—-3in. diam., yellowish, strongly 
odorous but certainly not fcetid. Sepals 6-8, linear, obtuse or 
acute, densely tomentose on the outside. Anthers linear-oblong, 
obtuse. Achenes narrow-ovoid, very silky, narrowed into short 
plumose tails —Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zei. i. 7; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 2; 
Kirk, Students’ Fl. 4. C. Parkinsoniana, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 
xii. (1880) 359; xiv. (1852) 331. 
NortH anp SoutH Istanps: Not uncommon in lowland districts from the 
North Cape to the south of Otago. September—November. 
Varies considerably in size, texture, cutting of the leaves, degree of pubes- 
cence, &c.; but can always be recognised by the pale or fulvous pubescence on 
the leaves, young shoots, and branches of the panicle, by the small yellow 
flowers, which are usually produced in enormous numbers, and by the dense 
tomentum on the sepals. The type specimens of Mr. Colenso’s C. Parkin- 
soniana, preserved in his herbarium, show no points of difference from the 
ordinary form of U. fetida. 
6. C. parviflora, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 636.—More or less 
clothed with silky fulvous pubescence. Stems slender, wiry, not 
nearly so robust or so much branched as in the preceding species. 
Leaves 3-foliolate, thin and almost membranous, more rarely sub- 
coriaceous, tawny-pubescent, especially on the veins and under- 
surface ; leaflets 4-14 in. long, all stalked, ovate or ovate-cordate, 
usually entire but occasionally irregularly lobed, subacute. Panicles 
slender, branched; rhachis and pedicels tawny-pubescent. Flowers 
swwall, 4-2in. diam., yellowish. Sepals 6-8, linear, more or less 
clothed with silky pubescence. Anthers short and broad, oblong, 
with a minute appendage at the apex of the connective. Achenes 
narrow-ovoid, silky.—Kaoul, Choiw, 47; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 
i. 7; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 2; Kirk, Students’ Fi. 4. 
Var. depauperata, Hook. f. Handi. N.Z. Fil. 2. — Leaflets very small. 
Sepals narrowed into long slender points. 
Var. trilobata, Kirk, Students’ Hl. 5.— Leaflets deeply 3-lobed; lobes 
entire or cut. Flowers smaller. Sepals more pubescent. 
