Cotenso.—On new Plants. 859 
Arr. LIV.—A Description of a few new Plants Jrom our New Zealand Forests, 
with dried Specimens of the same. By W. Corzwso, F.L.S. 
[Read before the Hawkes Bay Philosophical Institute, 18th October, 1879.] 
Durme the last few years I have again turned my attention in spare time 
to the elucidating a little more of the still unknown botany of our adopted 
country; being as strong a believer as ever in the great peculiarities and 
narrow areas of not a few plants of our local Floras. And, from among 
several plants which I have detected, which have pleased me, I now bring 
you the following—all, I believe, being new species and hitherto undescribed, 
if not totally unknown to science. Some of them, I think, will interest 
you, partieularly the Clematis, one of the two species of Metrosideros, and 
the three ferns. But, alas! between the most carefully prepared dried 
specimens and living plants—in all their glory and beauty—there is “a 
great gulph” of difference :— i 
CLEMATIS PARKINSONIANA. 
A diffuse slender climber ; branches striated. 
Leaves 8-foliolate, submembranaceous, various in size and outline, mostly 
(1) ovate acute, mucronate, entire, lj inches long, 7-8 lines broad, (2) 
sometimes deeply serrated and incised, having 1—4 incisions near apex, (3) 
sometimes cordate acuminate, 2 inches long, with 6-8 very large and irreg- 
ular serratures or incisions, and (4) sometimes (rarely) broadly elliptie, 
almost orbicular, entire, and very obtuse; obscurely trinerved, nerves red 4 
both surfaces well covered with adpressed golden-yellow shining hairs; 
veins numerous, yellow-red and semi-translucent, very finely reticulated— 
compound anastomosing having free veinlets terminating in areoles, as 
obtains in some ferns—/e.g., Polypodium membranaceum and our own P. bil- 
lardieri); common petiole 8 inches long, petiolules 8-10 lines long; young 
branches, petioles, peduncles, and pedicels densely villous with yellowish- 
brown spreading woolly hairs. Flowers numerous, diameter 9-10 lines, 
disposed in long loose axillary panicles 4 inches long ; sepals (male), six, 
yellow (brass colour), oblong-lanceolate, very obtuse or retuse, 4 lines long, 
obscurely 3-5 nerved, nerves branching, very woolly on the outside, the 
silky wool extending far beyond margins and apex, giving a subciliated ap- 
pearance ; anthers elliptic, obtuse, pinkish ; filaments linear lanceolate, of 
various lengths, but much shorter than sepals, not very numerous, under 
thirty, often remaining after the sepals have fallen.  Peduncles opposite, 
Springing from main rhachis, 1-2 inches long, and about 1 inch apart, 
generally trichotomously bearing three flowers on pedicels 5-8 lines long, 
the central pedicel always the longest; peduncles and pedicels each having 
& pair of oblong obtuse connate bracts at their bases, those of the pedicels 
being the longest, thinnest, and simply veined. 
