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2 Stamens many. Carpels numerous, each with one pendulous ovule. Fruit a head of sessile achenes, in all the New Zealand species produced into long feathery persistent styles.

1. C. indivisa, ''Willd. Sp. Plant.'' ii. 1291.—A large woody climber, often covering bushes or small trees. Stem stout, frequently as thick as a man's arm. Leaves 3-foliolate, coriaceous, glabrous; leaflets 1–4 in. long, all stalked, ovate-oblong or ovate-cordate, rarely narrower and linear-oblong, usually entire. Flowers in axillary panicles, most abundantly produced, large, white, 2–4 in. diam. Sepals 6–8, oblong. Anthers oblong, obtuse. Achenes numerous, downy, with a plumose tail often more than 2 in. long.—''A. Rich. Fl Nouv. Zel. 288; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 635; Raoul, Choix, 47; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 6; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 2; Kirk, Students' Fl. 2; Hook. Bot. Mag.'' t. 4398 (a form with the leaflets lobed). C. integrifolia, ''Forst. Prodr.'' n. 231.

Var. lobulata, Kirk, Students' Fl. 2.—Leaflets lobed or even twice ternate.


 * Abundant throughout. Sea-level to 2500 ft. Puawhananga. August–November.