Book (1965) Page(s) 443.
17. Clematis meyeniana Walp. C. lutchuensis Koidz. - Yamabaru-sennin-sō, Teriha-no-sennin-sō. Glabrous woody climber, the young shoots often yellowish brown pubescent in leaf axils, changing to dark brown when dried; leaves petiolate, ternate, the leaflets rather coriaceous, petioluled, ovate to elongate-ovate, sometimes deltoid-ovate, 5-nerved, 4-10 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. wide, acuminate, rounded to shallowly cordate at base; panicles axillary, pyramidal, 7-20 cm. long, peduncled, rather manj'-flowered, the bracts subulate, small, the pedicels rather short, the flowers white, 15-20 mm. across; sepals 4, spreading, with white tomentum on margin; stamens about 2/3 as long as the sepals, glabrous, the anthers linear, yellow, 1/2-2/3 as long as the filaments; achenes yellowish brown villous; style feathery except at apex, yellowish brown. July-Aug. Kyushu (Tanegashima and Yakushima). - Ryukyus, Formosa, s. China, and Philippines.
Book (1912) Page(s) 83.
Clematis L. — N. Pff. iii. 2. 62. — Ranunculaceæ-Clematideæ.
Armandi Franch. = Meyeniana.
Meyeriana Walp. — Benth. Fl. Hongkong 6; B. M. t. 7897. — C. Armandi Franch. — Gard. Chron. 1905, ii. 30, with plate. — China. — ♄ §. May.
