Clematis. ] RANUNCULACE. 5 
NorrH Istanp: The typical form in various localities from the Three 
Kings Islands and the North Cape to Hawke’s Bay, but often local. Var. 
trilobata: Bay of Islands, Kirk! Northern Wairoa, 7. Ff. C.; Te Aroha, 
T. #. C.; between Gisborne and Napier, Bishop Williams! SouruH Isuanp: 
Var. depauperata: Nelson, Travers. Var. trilobata: Okarita, A. Hamilton. 
Sea-level to 1500 ft. September—November. 
A handsome species, closely allied to C. fetida, but at once distinguished 
by the smaller size, more slender habit, smaller and thinner usually entire 
leaflets, narrower silky sepals, and especially by the broad anthers, which have 
a minute swelling at the tip of the connective. I have not seen specimens of 
Hooker’s var. depauperata. 
7. C. afoliata, Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. iii. (1871) 211.— 
Stems and branches leafless, wiry, striate, glabrous, often much 
intertwined. Leaves usually reduced to petioles in the mature 
plant, when present consisting of 3 minute long-stalked ovate or 
triangular leaflets ; in young plants more frequently developed and 
rather larger. Flowers greenish-white, 4-3in. diam., in fascicles 
of 2-5 in the axils of the petioles; peduncles slender, pilose, each 
with a pair of minute ovate bracteoles. Sepals 4, ovate- or oblong- 
lanceolate, usually acute, silky. Anthers linear. Achenes ovoid, 
silky.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 8. C. aphylla, Col. in Trans. N.Z. 
Inst. xix. (1886) 259. 
NorrH Istanp: Without locality, Colenso! Puketapu (Hawke’s Bay), 
H. Hill! Sours Istanp: Various localities from Nelson to Otago, but local. 
Picton, J. Rutland! Marlborough, Buchanan; Hanmer Plains, H. J. Mat- 
thews! Waiau River, Kirk; Canterbury Plains, N. 7. Carrington! Waitaki 
Valley, Buchanan, Petrie! Duntroon, /etrie! Sea-level to 2000 ft. Sep- 
tember—October. 
A very curious plant, often forming dense masses of intertwined stems 
and branches several feet in length. I have not seen flowering specimens of 
Mr. Colenso’s C. aphylia, but the stems and branches show no difference from 
the common state of the species. 
8. C. marata, Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 335.— 
Stems slender, much branched, often forming dense interlaced 
masses scrambling over bushes or among grass, brownish-green, 
pubescent, grooved. Leaves 3-foliolate, usually pubescent on both 
surfaces ; petioles variable in length, 1-4 in.; leaflets small, 4-4in. 
long, all stalked, exceedingly variable in shape, narrow-linear to 
ovate, acute or obtuse, entire notched or lobed, or even again 
3-partite. Peduncles 1-flowered, solitary or 2-4 together in the 
axils of the leaves, pubescent. Bracteoles in 2 pairs, connate at 
the base, upper pair much the larger, often foliaceous. Flowers 
yellowish, small, 4-2 in. diam., sweet-scented. Sepals 4, linear- 
oblong, acute or obtuse, silky. Anthers linear. Achenes narrow, 
margined, silky or nearly glabrous when old, narrowed into rather 
long plumose tails.— Kirk, Students’ Fl. 4. 
Norru Istanp: Upper Thames Valley, from Te Aroha southwards, 7’. F’. C., 
Petrie! Taupo, T. F. C.; East Cape, Kirk ; probably not uncommon in the 
interior. Sourn Is~tanp: Apparently common throughout, Armstrong ! 
Buchanan! Kirk! &c. Sea-level to 3000 ft. September—November. 
