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Atragene Alpina, var. Austriaca.
Class and Order, Polyandra Polygynia.
Generic Character. Calyx 0, Corolla duplex petalis numerosis exterioribus majoribus.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Atragene alpina; scandens, foliis biternatis serratis acuminatis, petalis exterioribus quaternis interioribus spathulatis. Spec. Pl. edit. Willdenow, 2. 1285.
Atragene alpina foliis duplicato-ternatis serratis, petalis exterioribus quaternis. Spec. Pl. 764. Jacq. Austr. t. 241.
Atragene clematides. Crantz. Fasc. Q. t. 5
Atragene austriaca foliis duplicato-ternatis serratis; caule fruticoso scandente.  Scop. Carn. 1. 387.
Clematis alpina geranifolia.  Pluk. Phyt. t. 84. f. 7 Moris. Hist. 3. s. 15. t. 2 f. ult.
Clematis cruciata alpina.  Ponee Bald. 335.

The Atragene alpina from Siberia and that from Austria, if not distinct species, are certainly permanent varieties.  Our plant is undoubtedly the Austrian kind, and was first introduced to this country by Mr. Loddiges, Nurseryman at Hackney, who raised it from seeds sent from Crane above fourteen years ago, and in his garden it has flowered freely for several years past, as also in some others to which it has been extended.  Our figure was taken this Summer from a plant in the possession of Mrs. Wright.
The above synonyms appear to us to belong to this variety, although it is possible they may refer to more than one sort, as the authors do not in every respect agree.
It branches from the very bottom into several slender stalks several feet in length, which entwine round one another and whatever support comes in their way, where they are held fast by the footstalks of the leaves, which, after these decay, become woody, and continue to perform the office of claspers.  The stalks are truly sarmentous, the internodes being perfectly naked.  At equal distances of about four inches, the leaves and flowers spring from the same bud.  These gemmæ are generally opposite, consist of several imbricated persistent squamæ, the centre ones larger, membranous, and of a brown colour.  It may be considered as an involucrum, from the bosom of which grow usually two petioles and a peduncle bearing a solitary nodding flower.  The petioles are an inch and half long, smooth, or, if examined with a lens, slightly pubescent, and divide into three branches, of which the centre one is the longest, each bearing a ternate leaf.  The leaflets, as in most of the genus, are subject to vary considerably in shape, but in general the three terminal ones are distinct, ovate, acute, and more or less deeply serrated, the lateral leaflets frequently run all three into one; all are smooth, but veiny on the under side.  The peduncle is longer than the leaves and straight, bearing the flower nodding and the seeds erect.  In the axillæ of the petioles the new gemmæ are formed.  By this arrangement, and the persistent petioles, the old knots become very large and intricate.  The outer corolla consists of four large petals of a fine blue colour with a white edge, are ovate, acute, and covered on the outside, especially at the margins, with a fine down.  The inner petals are in fact nothing more than enlarged barren filaments; and therefore the separation of this genus from Clematis, appears to us, in this instance at least, to be neither natural nor necessary.  The plume of the seed is a bushy tail of long white hairs, but is neither fecund, as represented in Jacquin's figure, nor distich, as described by Willdenow.
It is propagated by seeds only, at least the experienced cultivator who introduced it, has not yet been able to succeeed by any other mode.  It is perfectly hardy, bearing the severest frosts of our climate without injury.

(1819)  Page(s) 2054.  
 
Rosa arvensis, β. The Ayrshire Rose.
Class and Order.
Icosandria Polygynia.
Generic Character.
Petala 5. Cal. urceolatus, 5-fidus, carnosus, collo coarctatus. Semina plurima hispida calycis interiori lateri affixa.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Rosa arvensis; fructibus globosis pedunculisque inermibus, aculeis caulinis petiolorumque aduncis, floribus subcymosis, stylis coadunatis. Smith Compend. Flor. Brit, p.78. Flor. Brit. 2. p. 538.
Rosa arvensis. Willd. Sp. PI.2. p. 1066. Hort. Kew. 3. p. 259.
(β.) foliolis quinque, vix septem, calycis laciniis integris reflexis, ramis biorgyalibus.
Rosa repens; germinibus oblongis glabris, pedunculis hispido-glandulosis, petiolis villosis aculeatis, caule repente. Willd. Enum. 547? Scop. Cam. 610? Jacq. Fragm. p. 69. t.104?
Desc. Branches four or five yards long when led over a trellis, and therefore well suited for covering arbours, smooth, but armed here and there with hooked prickles. Leaves generally consisting of five, sometimes only three, very rarely seven leaflets, which are ovate, acute, sharply serrate, the terminal one larger than the rest: petiole armed with a few curved prickles, otherwise smooth. Stipules semisagittate conjoined.Flowers in terminal corymbs. Peduncles covered with glandular hairs, with two or three lanceolate, entire, pellucid bractes at the base of each. Germen oval, smooth; segments of the calyx entire, awned, a little hairy. Petals white, obcordate.
In these characters we cannot find any thing to distinguish this plant from Rosa arvensis; the extraordinary length of the branches being probably solely owing to culture.
It has been known some years in our Nurseries, under the name of the Ayrshire Rose, but upon what grounds it has been so called is difficult to say, for upon the strictest enquiry, as we are informed by Sir JOSEPH BANKS, no Rose of the kind could be heard of there or in any part of Scotland.
Flowers in June and July.
Communicated by the Right Honourable Sir JOSEPH BANKS, Bart. from his garden at Spring-Grove.

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Clematis aethusaefolia, var. latisecta.
Native of Amur-land and N. China.
Nat. Ord. Ranunculaceae.— Tribe Clematidae.
Genus Clematis, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 3.)

CLEMATIS (Flammula) aethusaefolia ; scandens, glaberrima v. puberula, caulibus gracilibus angulatis sulcatisque, foliis parvis 2-3-pinnatisectis,segmentis cuneatis incisis v. pinnatilobatis obtusis angusto linearibus v. oblongis v. obovatis, pedunculis solitariis binis ternisve elongatis gracilibus erectis apice decurvis, floribus inter minoribus 1/2-3/4 poll, longis cylindraceo-campanulatis, sepalis 4 oblongis cohaerentibus albis dorso pubescentibus apicibus latis liberis paullo recurvis obtusis v. subacutis, filamentis dilatatis.
C. aethusaefolia, Turcz. Decad. PI. Chin. p. 2 ; Walp. Rep. vol. i. p. 5.
Var. latisecta, foliorum segmentis latis.
Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 12 ; Regel Flor. Ussur. n. 4 ; Gartenfl. 1861, p. 342, t. 342. C. aethusaefolia, Carrière in Bev. Hortic. 1869, p. 10, cum Ic. Xylog.

A very graceful climber, perfectly hardy, as might be anticipated from its native country, which extends from the neighbourhood of Pekin — whence we have examined dried specimens collected by Dr. Bushell, late of the Chinese Embassy, and others — to the Amur river. It varies greatly in the breadth of the leaf-segments ; those of the originally-described form being divided into very narrow linear lobes, whilst in that figured here they are as broad as long, and in Maximovicz's specimen of this same variety (latisecta) they are an inch long and cuneiform. The flowers are, though not conspicuous, exceedingly graceful, very abundantly produced, and pendulous from stiff erect peduncles.
The specimen here figured is from a plant that has long been in the Kew collection, and was, no doubt, received from the St. Petersburg Botanic Gardens; it flowers as late as September and October.
Descr. A slender glabrous or puberulous climber. Stems and branches angled and grooved. Leaves one to two inches long, very numerous, twice or thrice pinnately divided ; segments narrow or broad, more or less deeply cut into linear obtuse or cuneate or irregularly rounded cut and toothed segments ; petiole stiff. Peduncles one to three from the nodes of the stem, one to two inches long, stiff, erect, curved at the top. Flowers one-half to three-fourths of an inch long, between cylindric and campanulate, white, base rounded. Sepals linear-oblong, coherent by their slightly overlapping margins, tips shortly recurved, rounded or subacute. Filaments dilated below, hairy. — J. D. H.

Fig. 1, longitudinal section of the flower ; 2 and 3, stamens ; 4, carpel ; 5, stigma : — all enlarged.

(Apr 1911)  Page(s) tab 8367.  Includes photo(s).
 
Clematis aristata, var. Dennisae.
Australia.
Ranunculaceae. Tribe Clematideae.

Clematis, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 3.

Clematis aristata, B. Br., var. Dennisae, W. R. Guilf. in lc. ; varietas pulchra filamentis salmoneo-rubris distincta.

Frutex dioicus, scandens, semper virens, caule striato parcissime puberulo. Folia opposita, trifoliolata ; petioli 4.5-7.5 cm. longi; petioluli 1-3.5 cm. longi; foliola ovato-lanceolata vel lanceolata, acute caudato-acuminata acumine recurvo, basi cordata vel truncata, 5-10 cm. longa, 1.8-4.5 cm. lata, grosse dentato-serrata, glabra, opaca, basi quinquenervia, nervis exterioribus patulis, intermediis versus apicem currentibus juxta medium folii cum nervis superioribus lateralibus patulis connexis. Paniculae axillares, pluriflorae ; rhachis usque ad 2 cm. longa, breviter dense pilosa ; bracteae late subulatae marginibus incurvis, 3.5-5 mm. longae ; pedunculi decussati, uniflori, densiuscule pilosi, apice bibracteati, 3-10 mm. longi ; pedicelli 3.5-5 cm. longi, pilosi. Flores masculi : Sepala 4, aestivatione valvata, alba, lanceolato-ligularia, apice obtusa, in basin leviter angustata, 2-2.5 cm. longa, 4.5-7 mm. lata, extra pubescentia, intus glabra. Stamina, numerosa ; filamenta salmoneo-rubra, linearia, extima circiter 7 mm. longa, intima circiter 2 mm. longa ; antherae oblongae usque lineares, extimae 2.5 mm. longae appendice exclusa, intimae 4 mm. longae, connectivo apice ultra thecas in appendicem subulatam circiter 1.7 mm. longam producto. Rudimenta pistillorum nulla. Flores feminei et achaenia ignoti. — C. Sanderi, W. Wats, in Gard. Chron. 1907, vol. xli. p. 310.— T. A. Sprague.

Clematis aristata, R. Br., to which the form here figured is referred, is a native of Australia. The species was originally based on specimens from New South Wales, but in the Flora Australiensis a somewhat comprehensive view was adopted by the late Mr. Bentham, who attributes to C. aristata a wide distribution, and assigns to it several varieties. It is now, however, generally believed that the variety coriacea of that work includes at least the typical C. aristata and C. coriacea, DC, that the variety blanda is the distinct Tasmanian C. blanda, Hook., and that the variety occidentalis is the equally distinct Western Australian C. pubescens, Hueg. Some authorities, on the other hand, have treated as distinct certain forms that are usually referred to typical C. aristata, and in the case of the subject of our illustration, the plea for separate treatment is unusually strong. The plant here depicted differs markedly from true C. aristata in the longer coarsely dentate-serrate leaflets, and in this respect agrees more closely with certain specimens from New South Wales in the Kew herbarium which may be referable to C. coriacea, DC. These New South Wales specimens, however, which do not agree with typical C. aristata, differ also from our plant, which is a native of Victoria, in having considerably longer appendages to the anthers. Specimens of what we believe to be the female state of our plant were first collected by the late Baron von Mueller on Mount Disappointment and in the Delatite valley nearly sixty years ago ; the notes attached to these specimens show that von Mueller originally considered the plant entitled to specific rank. More than half a century was to elapse before the plant attracted in Australia the notice that it deserves, for it was not till about 1904 that it was introduced to cultivation by Mrs. J. Dennis, of Murngal, who had met with it on the Healesville ranges in Evelyn. Mr. W. E. Guilfoyle, Director of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, on receiving examples, marked his sense of the position of the form and of the merit of its discoverer by naming it in her honour. Under this name, already familiar in Australian gardens, Mr. Guilfoyle, early in 1907, forwarded living examples to Messrs. F. Sander & Sons, in whose nursery at St. Albans our plant flowered in May, 1907, for the first time in Europe. This introduction was noted at the time in the Gardeners' Chronicle ; the writer of that note, while unaware of the history of the plant, independently formed the opinion at which Baron von Mueller had arrived in 1852. Later in the same year Messrs. Sander presented a living plant to the Kew collection. This plant, from which the material for our figure has been derived, has thriven well in a sunny greenhouse under the conditions suitable for C. indivisa, Willd., figured at t. 4398 of this work, which it resembles in habit and in being evergreen. It blossoms in May, and the flowers, which are fragrant, are striking on account of the salmon-red colour of their filaments. This character has not been ascribed to any of the forms hitherto referred to C. aristata, nor do the specimens of those at our disposal indicate its existence. Having regard, however, to the incertitude attending negative evidence it appears desirable, until further field observation has been made, to follow Mr. Guilfoyle in treating this striking plant as a well-marked variety of C. aristata.

Description - . — Shrub, dioecious, evergreen, climbing; stem striate, sparingly puberulous. Leaves opposite, 3- foliolate ; petioles 1 3/4-3 in. long; petiolules 1/2-1 1/2 in. long; leaflets ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, sharply caudate-acuminate with recurved tips, base cordate or truncate, 2-4 in. long, 3/4-1 3/4 in. wide, coarsely serrately toothed, glabrous, dull, 5-nerved from the base, outer nerves spreading, intermediate extending towards the leaf tip, united from the middle onwards with the upper spreading lateral branches of the midrib. Panicles axillary, many-flowered ; rachis under 1 in. long, shortly closely hairy ; bracts wide subulate with incurved edges, about 2 lin. long ; peduncles decussate 1-flowered, densely pilose, 2-bracteolate at the tip, 2-5 lin. long ; pedicels 1 £-2 in. long, pilose. Male flowers : Sepals 4, valvate, white, lanceolate-ligulate, obtuse, base slightly narrowed, 3/4-1 in. long, 2-4 lin. wide, pubescent externally, glabrous within. Stamens many ; filaments salmon-red, the outer about 1/4 in. long, three times as long as the inner ; anthers oblong to linear, the outer, without the appendage, about 1 lin. long, half as long as the inner; connective produced beyond the anther cells in a subulate tip nearly 1 lin. long. Rudimentary pistil 0. Female flowers and fruit unknown.

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Clematis barbellata.
Beardletted Traveller's-joy.
Nat. Ord. RANUNCULACEAE. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Involucrum 0, aut calyciforme sub flore. Sepala 4-8, colorata. Petala 0 aut plana, sepalis breviora. Caryopsides 00, in caudam saepius barbato-plumosam productae. — Radices perennes. Folia exacte opposita. De Cand.

CLEMATIS (§ Cheiropsis) barbellata; foliis ternatim sectis, pedunculis aggregatis unifloris folia subaequantibus, floribus nutantibus, staminibus penanthio fere 1/2 brevioribus, filamentis planis lanceolatis ciliatis, anthens introrsis dorso dense pilosis.
CLEMATIS barbellata. Edgeworth,in Linn. Trans.v.20.p.25. Hook.fil.et Thoms. Fl. Indica, p. 5 (ined.).
CLEMATIS Nipalensis, Royle, lllustr.p. 51 (excl. syn.).

Native of the Western Himalaya, where, about Garhwal, it appears to have been first detected by Dr. Royle and Mr. Pakenham Edgeworth, and first distinguished as a species by the latter gentleman (from whom we have received native specimens) in the Linnean Society's Transactions above quoted. Messrs. Strachey and Winterbottom found it at Kamaon at an elevation of 10,000 feet: and Major Madden, who introduced it by seed to the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, Dublin, met with it in woods between Kamaon and Simla, at elevations varying from 8000 to 10,000 feet above the level of the sea. Mr. Edgeworth constitutes of it a new section or subgenus (Beboeanthera), differing from Cheiropsis, in wanting the involucra and in the introrse anthers ; but Drs. Hooker and Thomson refer it to § Cheiropsis whose character they consider mainly to rest on the single-flowered peduncles: and they give another Indian species belonging to it, with introrse anther, viz. C. acutangula, Hook. fil. et Thom. C. barbellata is a very pretty species bearing numerous, large, chocolate flowers, with cream-coloured borders , to the sepals. Mr. Moore, who sent the specimens here figured fromGlasnevin, considers the species hardy, a free bloomer, and as contrasting well with C. montana, which is beautifully in flower in company with it in May, 1854.

Descr. Climbing. Stems and branches slender, woody, striated, slightly hairy, obscurely striated. Leaves from a nodus, and clustered or subverticillate, ternately trisected, on long pedicels, each leaflet or segment petiolate, ovate, much acuminated, coarsely serrated, reticulately veined, bifid or (especially the side leaflets) trifid, glabrous. Peduncles from the same nodus as the leaves, 3-4 inches long, fascicled, spreading, hairy, single-flowered. Flower drooping, large, monoecious (Edgew.). Sepals large, erecto-patent, so as to form a campanulate perianth, each ovato-acuminate, three-nerved, slightly coriaceous, chocolate-coloured, the edge white or cream-coloured, and downy. Stamens numerous, erect, flattened, little more than half the length of the perianth. Filaments broad, lanceolate, membranaceous, hairy and ciliated, bent at the base. Anther oblong, terminal, basi-fixed, opening introrsely, glabrous within, the back with a dense tuft of hairs. Pistils several, erect. Ovary ovate, glabrous or bearded on the under side only. Style long, subulate, villous except at the apex, which is slightly recurved and terminated with the simple, obtuse stigma.

Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil: — magnified.

(1806)  Page(s) tab 959.  Includes photo(s).
 
Clematis Calycina Minorca Virgin's-Bower.
Class and Order.
POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA.
Generic Character.
Cal. 0. Petala 4 — 6. Semina caudata.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
CLEMATIS calycina; involucro calycino approximate, foliis ternatis, intermedio tripartito. Hort. Kew. 2. p. 259. Vahl. Symb. 3. p. 75. L'Heril. Stirp. Nov. 2.t. 26. ined. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 1289. Mart. Mill. Dict. a. 16.
CLEMATIS balearica ; scandens, foliis compositis tenuiter laciniatis, floribus calyculatis lateralibus, petalis interne guttatis. Lamarck Encycl. 2. p. 44.

Our drawing of this rare species of Clematis, a native of the Island of Minorca, was taken at Mr. Malcolm's nursery at Kensington. It requires the protection of a good greenhouse. Produces its flowers in the winter. Propagated by layers with difficulty. Introduced to the Royal Garden at Kew, in 1783, by M. Thouin.

(1808)  Page(s) tab 1070.  Includes photo(s).
 
Clematis Cirrhosa. Evergreen Virgin's-Bower.
Class and Order.
POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA.
Generic Character.
Calyx 0. Petala 4 (rarius 5.) Semina caudata.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
CLEMATIS cirrhosa ; foliis simplicibus, caule cirrhis oppositis scandente, pedunculis unifloris lateralibus. Syst. Veg.426. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p.1287. Desf. Atl. 1. p. 433.
CLEMATIS cirrhis scandens, foliis simplicibus. Sp. Pl. 766. Hort. Cliff. 226.
CLEMATIS peregrina foliis pyri incisis. Bauh. Pin. 300.
CLEMATIS altera baetica. Clus. Hist. 1. p. 123. Hisp. p. 223.t. 222. Lob. lc. 628. f. 2. Tabern. 1269.
CLEMATIS peregrina foliis pyri incicis, nunc singularibus nunc ternis. Tourn. Cor. 20. Zuer. Flor. Espan. 4. p. 352.
CLEMATIS baetica Clusii. Bauh. Hist. 2. p. 126. Ger. Emac.886.f. 2. Park. Theat. 383.f. 2. Raii Hist. 1. p. 621. 2.

There is great affinity between this plant and Clematis calycina, more remarkable in fome specimens of the latter than in the one from which our drawing (No. 959) was taken, in which the involucrum is more distant and grown out into the form of leaves ; whereas it is more usually close to the flower, and has exactIy the appearance of a calyx. In the present plant, the peduncle above ihe involucrum is thickened and of the same colour as the flower, so that it might be mistaken for a tube of the corolla ; and this causes the involucrum to appear as if close to the flower, which in reality it is not.
Was first observed by Clusius, between Medina Sodina in Andalusia and Gibraltar, and is common in other provinces of Spain, also about Algiers and on Mount Atlas. It climbs up trees, which it overwhelms. Although this plant is generally mentioned by the old botanical writers, all their figures and descriptions are without exception copied from Clusius, who saw it in seed only. It is fully defcribed by Desfontaines in his Flora Atlantica.
Our drawing was taken from a plant communicated by Mr. Loddiges, cultivated in a pot, and kept in the greenhouse; but Philip Miller observes, that it endured the hardest winters of this country for forty years together in the open ground at the Physic Garden, Chelsea, and that it flowers better than when treated more tenderly ; in exposed situations, however, it is apt to perish. Is propagated by laying down the young shoots in October. Flowers in March and April. Supposed to have been cultivated by Gerard in 1596, but as he says that he has found it in the Isle of Wight, and in a wood by Waltham-Abbey, perhaps he mistook some variety of Clematis Vitalba for this species.

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Clematis coccinea.
Native of Texas.
Nat. Ord. Ranunculacea. — Tribe Clematideae..
Genus Clematis, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PI. vol. 5. p. 3.)

Clematis coccinea ; glaberrima, caule gracillimo scandente ramoso, foliis tenuiter coriaceis gracile petiolatis 3-5-foliolatis, foliolis gracillime petiolulatis lateralibus late ovatis ovato-cordatisve obtusis apiculatis convexis subtus glaucis integerrimis reticulatim venosis, terminali majore et latiore integro v. 3-lobo, floribus solitariis longissime pedunculatis coccineis, perianthio ovoideo, sepalis glaberrimis marginibus sericeo-tomentosis crasse coriaceis ovato-lanceolatis erectis apicibus acutis recurvis, acheniis villosis, caudis elongatis plumosis persistentibus.

C. coccinea, Engelm. in Gray Plant. Wright, part ii. p. 7.
C. Pitcheri, Carriere in Rev. Hortic. 1878, p. 10; non Torr. et Gr.
C. Viorna var. coccinea, A. Gray, I. c.

Putting aside the large-flowered Japanese species of Clematis, as C. florida, C. azurea, &c, this is decidedly the most attractive of all that have lately been introduced into Europe, and, in point of brilliant colour, it is quite unique in the genus. It was first considered by Professor Asa Gray as a variety of C. Viorna, an opinion which he has since abandoned, as will be seen by the appended key to the species of North American Clematis of this section with which he has favoured me, and which settles once for all that long-confused synonymy, to which I drew attention under Plate 6574.
C. coccinea, is a native of Texas, and was received in 1880 at the Royal Gardens from the rich gardens of Max Leichtlin at Baden, and flowered in a cool conservatory in June of the present year. It, however, appears to be perfectly hardy, and a plant of it has been placed against a S.E. wall, where it has, up to this time, grown freely. — J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Stamens; 2, ovary -.—both enlarged.

(1 Dec 1881)  Page(s) tab 6594.  
 
Review of the North American climbing species of Clematis, with compound leaves and thick or thickish erect sepals.
A. Sepals of the ovoid or somewhat conical and comparatively closed flower very thick, softly leathery, glabrous or almost so (not canescent) except the inflexed margins, their tips not dilated nor conspicuously thin-margined ; styles wholly persistent in fruit and plumose throughout.
1. C. Viorna,
2. C. coccinea, Engelm. in Gray, PI. Wright, vol. ii. p. 7, where I called it C. Viorna, var. coccinea. Carriere, in Rev. Hort. 1878, p. 10, has described and figured it under the quite erroneous name of C. Pitcheri, and it may have other names in cultivation. It is a native of Texas, and is known from C. Viorna by its scarlet-red flowers, glaucous foliage, and simpler as well as rounder and more reticulated leaflets.

(1917)  Page(s) tab 8702.  
 
Clamatis Fargesii, var. souliei.
China
Ranunculaceae. Tribe Clematideae.
Clematis, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 3.

Clematis Fargesii, Franch., var. Souliei, Finet et Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, vol. i. p. 523 (1903), et Contrib. Fl. As. Or. fasc. i. p. 8 (1905) ; Rehder et Wils. in Sargent, PI. Wilson, pars iii. p. 336 (1913) ; a typo foliolis angustioribus basi late cuneatis vel rotundatis parce pubescentibus, filamentis antberis multo longioribus differt.

Frutex scandens ; ramuli sulcati, juniores breviter tomentosi, demum parce pubescentes, rubro-purpurascentes. Folia biternata, usque ad 20 cm. longa et 15 cm. expansa, tenuiter chartacea, utrinque parce adpresse pubescentia ; foliola lateralia terminali multo minora, plus minusve ovata, 2-3 cm. longa, 1-2 cm. lata, inaequaliter lobulato-dentata vel interdum sublobata, dentibus ovatis acute mucronatis ; foliola terminalia sessilia vel petiolulata, ovato-lanceolata, subtriloba, acute acuminata, basi rotundata vel breviter cuneata, 3-5 cm. longa, 2-4.5 cm. lata; nervi supra impressi, infra prominentes, adscendentes, laxe ramosi. Pedunculi axillares, 1-2-flori, foliis plerumque multo breviores, supra medium bracteolati, parce pubescentes, bracteolis minimis oppositis ; pedicelli ultimi 2.5-4.5 cm. longi, graciles. Alabastra ovoidea, obtusa, 1.5 cm. longa. Sepala 6, alba, extra flavo-tincta, obovata, apice acute mucronata, 2.5-3 cm. longa, 2-2.5 cm. lata, extra breviter pubescentia. Stamina glabra, stylis paullo longiora, filamentis linearibus complanatis vix 1 cm. longis, antheris 3-3.5 mm. longis dilute flavis. Achaenia numerosa, late ovoidea, compressa, glabra, apice in stylum dense villosum attenuata.— Clematis Souliei, Francb. ex Finet et Gagnepain, I.c., nomen. — J. Hutchinson.

The Clematis which forms the subject of our illustration is a native of western Szechuan, where it is found in woodlands, but w here it appears to occur somewhat sparingly. At one time thought to be a distinct species, C. Souliei, Franch., it has recently been regarded as only a form of C. Fargesii, Franch., also a native of south- western China, and indeed to differ but slightly from that plant, as originally described, in having filaments considerably longer than the anthers, and perhaps also in having the leaflets more rounded or more widely cuneate at the base. C. Fargesii is a member of the Vitalba group of species ; within that group it is readily distinguished by its one- or two-flowered axillary peduncles and by its large and conspicuous flowers. The plant from which the material for our figure was obtained was raised at Kew from seeds received from the Arnold Arboretum in 1912. It flowered for the first time in 1915 ; the specimen figured Was gathered in 1916. Plants continue in flower from June to September ; they grow vigorously in a loamy soil, give every evidence of being hardy in our climate and develop sufficient seeds to make propagation easy. As a climbing shrub for gardens this Clematis will be valued for the pure whiteness and delicate satiny texture of its flowers.

Description. — Shrub, climbing; twigs sulcate, shortly tomentose when young, ultimately sparingly pubescent, reddish -purple. Leaves 2-ternate, up to 8 in. long, 6 in. wide, thinly chartaceous, sparingly adpressed-pubescent on both surfaces ; lateral leaflets much smaller than the terminal, more or less ovate, 3/4-1 1/4 in. long, 1/3-3/4 in. wide, unequally lobulately toothed or at times almost lobate, the teeth ovate, acute and mucronate ; end-leaflet sessile or petiolulate, ovate-lanceolate, almost 3-lobed, acutely acuminate, base rounded or shortly cuneate, 1 1/4-2 in. long, 3/4-1 3/4 in. wide ; nerves sunk above, raised beneath, ascending, laxly branched. Peduncles axillary, 1-2-flowered, usually much shorter than the leaves, bracteolate above the middle, sparingly pubescent, the bracteoles very small, opposite ; pedicels beyond the bracteoles 1-1 3/4 in. long, slender. Buds ovoid, blunt, 2/3 in. long. Sepals 6, white, tinged outside with yellow, obovate, sharply mucronate, 1-1 1/4 in. long, 3/4-1 in. wide, shortly pubescent externally. Stamens glabrous, rather longer than the styles ; filaments linear, flattened, about 1/3 in. long, nearly thrice as long as the pale yellow anthers. Achenes numerous, wide-ovoid, compressed, glabrous, narrowed at the tip into the densely villous style.

Tab. 8702.— Fig. 1 and 2, stamens ; 3, carpel ; 4, young achene :— all enlarged.