Clematis.] i. ranunculaceje (oliver). 7 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons Mountain, climbing 20-30 ft., 4000-8000 ft., Mann I 

 Clarence Peak, Fernando Po, Mann ! 



Nile Land. Mountains of Abyssinia, Schimper ! 



Lower Guinea. Bumbo, Angola, Br. Welwitsch ! 



Var. 0. Leaves hairy beneath. Aukober, Abyssinia, Roth ! 



A specimen in fruit only, with nearly entire leaflets, probably belonging to this species, 

 Congo, Smith ! Allied to C. mauritiana, Lam. 



6. C. grata, Wall. PL As. Ear. 98. Climber. Branches pubescent. 

 Leaves pinnatisect ; leaflets petiolulate, 5, 3, or 7, ovate, acute or obtuse, base 

 cordate, broadly and irregularly crenately toothed, occasionally 3-lohate, 

 pubescent or at length glabrescent above, silky-tomentose or pubescent beneath. 

 Axillary panicles shorter than or equalling the leaves. Flowers about i in. 

 diarn. Sepals spreading or reflexed, ovate, acute or subacute, silky ex- 

 ternally, pubescent or nearly glabrous within. Inner filaments more or less 

 pilose.— C. inciso-dentata, Kich. FL Abyss, i. 2. C Petersiana, Kl. in 

 Peters, Mossainb. 170. C. viridiflora, Bertol. Misc. Bot. xix. 7. t. 3. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Billon and Petit ! Uganda, Speke and Grant I 



Lower Guinea. Angola, Br. Welwitsch! 



Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi, Br. Peters I 



«J Asia, this species extends eastward to the Western Himalaya, reappearing in China. 



Or. Welwitsch collected in Pungo Andongo, Angola, a Clematis just coming into flower, 

 Perhaps allied to this species. It has bipinnatisect leaves, leaflets or segments ovate -oblong, 

 <"atautly muxronate-serrate r toothed, and a large, terminal, erect, cymose panicle. Sepals 

 Pubescent on both sides. 



7. C. longicauda, Steud. ; Rich. M. Abyss, i. 2. Branches pilose. 

 rjfets haiTy and much reticulated on both surfaces ; petioles and petiolules 

 fulvous-villous. Involucral bracts broadly ovate or cordate-ovate, irregularly 

 "««ed, about 1 in. below the expanded flower. Sepals rather thick, densely 

 s %-pilose with fulvous (when dry) hairs, 1-1* in- long. Filaments pilose. 

 Anthers minutely mucronulate. 



Th ,le Land - Abyssinia, Schimper ! 



*ne oa iy tropical African species belonging to De Candolle's section Cheiropsis. 

 &*■ Sp , ecimen in th e Kcw herbarium, received from the Paris Museum (n. 873 ot 

 ^impers 1853 collection), is in flower only, and ill accords with llichards description, 

 baSedu P0 Q Suiting specimens. 



8 C. grandiflora, DC. Prod. i. 6. A slender climbing shrub. Leaves 

 "WUjf pmnately 5-foliolate ; leaflets petiolulate, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 

 (W*° r a P iculate , usually more or less cordate at base, broadly crenate- 

 cent *? ° r denticul «te; teeth mucronulate, thinly pilose beneath or glabres- 

 u" ' 2 " 6 ln - long, 1-3| in. broad. Flowers greenish, cnmpanulate, axil- 

 naiV U / Ually solitar y- Peduncles shorter than or equalling the leaves, with a 

 ovL V, maU bracts ne »r or below the middle. Sepals 1-1* in., oblong or 



aie-oblong, shortly recurved at the apex, tomentose externally. Filaments 



7 slender, pilose, many times exceeding the anther. Softly plumose tails 

 Lin, U £ Chenes looscl y spreading, 2-3 in. or more in length.— C. chlorantha, 

 ^•Botlteg. 1234. 



Low!!" rt Qinea - Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! and others. 



r °^inea. Golungo Alto and Cazcugo, Angola, Br. Welwxtsch. 



