432 RANUNCULACEAE. [Clematis. 
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, }-? in. diam., yellowish, strongly 
odorous but certainly not foetid. 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—AHook. f. Fl. 
Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 7; Handb. N.Z. #l. (1864) 2; 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. 
(1899) 4; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 4. C. Parkinsonia Col. in 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. xii (1880) 359, xiv (1882) 331. 
Nort AND SoutH Istanps: Not uncommon in lowland districts from the North 
Cape to the south of Otago. Septem ber—November. 
Varies considerably in size, texture, cutting of the leaves, degree of pubescence, 
&c.; but can always be recognized 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 tementum on the sepals. 
The type specimens of Mr. Colenso’s C. Parkinsoniana, preserved in his herbarium, 
show no points of difference from the ordinary form of C. foetida. 
6. C. parvifiora A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) 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-folio- 
late, thin and almost membranous, more rarely subcoriaceous, 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 small, $—-#in. diam., yellowish. Sepals 
6-8, linear, more or less clothed with silky pubescence. Anthers short 
and broad, obiong, with a minute appendage at the apex of the connective. 
Achenes narrow-ovoid, silky.—Raoul Chore (1846) 47; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 
Zel. i (1853) 7; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 2; 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 
4; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 4; Ill. N.Z. Fl. i (1914) t. 4. C. Hiili 
Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxi (1899) 266. 
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<Var. depauperata Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 2.—Leaflets very small. Sepals 
narrowed into long slender points. 
. 
Var. trilobata 7’. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 5.—-Leaflets deeply 3-lobed ; lobes entire 
or cut. Flowers smaller. Sepals more pubescent. 
Nortu 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, 
T. Kirk! Northern Wairoa, 7. F. OC. ; Te Aroha, 7. F. C.; between Gisborne and 
Napier, Bishop Williams ! Soutn Istanp: Var. depauperata: Nelson, W. T. L. 
Travers. Var. trilobata : Okarito, A. Hamilton. Sea-level to 1500 ft. Septem ber— 
November. 
A handsome species, closely allied to C. foetida, 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. wm 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, 3-7 1n. 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, 
