but should think from the botanic garden of Calcutta, 

 now become the depository from which the plants of the 

 most distant and sequestered quarters of India are daily 

 transmitted to this country. 



The drawing was made at the Nursery of Messrs. Col- 

 vill, in the King's Road, Chelsea; where the plant is cul- 

 tivated in the hothouse and flowers about October. We do 

 not believe that it is yet in any other collection. 



The genus Clematis has been remodelled by M. De Can- 

 doUe in four sections or sub-genera, under the titles Flam^ 

 mula, FtHcella, Ckeiropsis, and Athragene; comprising 

 together 83 ascertained species, and 3 doubtful ones ; by 

 some one or other of which its type is disseminated over 

 nearly every part of the globe. 



Hedysarifolmm is a suflrutescent evergreen climber: 

 branches roundish, thinly sprinkled with very fine soft hairs. 

 Leaves decussately opposite, with wide intervals between 

 the p^rs, outspread, ternate : common petiole purplish, 

 slightly hairy, an inch arid a half long or more, sometimes 

 (especially in the leaves next the flowers) tendiil-like and 

 prehensile ; leaflets coriaceous, cinereously green, petioled, 

 ovately oblong, entire, taper-pointed, 3-nerved. Panicles 

 terminal and axillary, pendulous, elongatedly thyrsiform, 

 many-flowered, brimchlets stifle, decussately opposite and wide 

 apart : pedicles slender villous, bearing two small opposite 

 abortive buds below their middle. Flowers white, iurred 

 on 4he outside, about -§- of an inch in diameter. Petals 4, 

 ovally oblong, equal, obtuse, cruciately rotate, caducous. 

 Stamens cream-coloured, upright, about ^ shorter than 

 the petals, many, smooth : ^filaments compressedly filiform : 

 anthers of the same colour, linearly oblong, upright with a 

 short obtuse point and a flattish receptacle. Pistils longer 

 than the stamens, greenish ; germens with long upright hair; 

 styles thrice shorter than these, bare, recurved and spread- 

 ing. 



