RANUNCULACEAE. — CLEMATIS 319 
1908 (No. 1333, type); same locality, June 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 
3033). 
We have given a complete description of this variety which differs from the 
type chiefly in the narrower segments of its leaves, paler color of stamens and 
fewer carpels, because the original description of the type is rather short. 
Here may be added a note on the habitat of the Moutan, together with its 
synonymy, which in most publications is incompletely and partly incorrectly 
quoted. 
Paeonia suffruticosa Andrews, Bot. Rep. VI. t. 373 (1804). 
Paeonia officinalis Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 230 (non Linnaeus) (1784). 
Paeonia arborea Donn, Hort. Cantabr. ed. 3, 102 (nomen nudum) (1804). — 
K. Koch, Dendr. I. 444 (1869). — Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. III. 162 
(1893). — Schneider, Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. Y. 272, fig. 180, 181 d-f (1904). 
Paeonia papaveracea Andrews, Bot. Rep. VII. t. 463 (1800). 
Paeonia moutan Sims in Bot. Mag. XXIX. t. 1154 (1809). — Aiton, Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2, III. 315 (1811). — Anderson in Trans. Linn. Soc. XII. 252 
(Monog. Paeon.) (1818). — Huth in Bot. Jahrb. XIV. 272 (Monog. Paeon.) 
(1892). — Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 324 (1900). 
Paeonia fruticosa Dumont de Courset, Bot. Cult. ed. 2, IV. 462 (1811). 
Shensi: Tai-pei-shan, 1910, and 50 li west of Yenan-Fu, 1910, W. Purdom." 
The specimens quoted above are according to Mr. Purdom from undoubtedly 
wild plants; he also introduced living plants of this wild form which are now grow- 
ing in several gardens. The habitat of P. suffruticosa has been for a long time 
uncertain, as all the earlier travelers in China had found it only in gardens. The 
first mention of its native habitat in north-western China we find in Engler & 
Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. III. 2, 55 (1891) where Prantl states that it occurs in 
Kansu north of the Hoang-ho, without giving any authority for this statement. 
Bretschneider (Hist. Europ. Discov. China, 425) says that according to a Chinese 
description of the province of Shensi the Moutan occurs in the district of Han- 
ch’eng on a hill called Moutan-shan. Between 1890-1896 it was collected by 
Hugh Scallan and G. Giraldi near Ki-san, Gniu-ju and Lun-shan in Shensi, and now 
with the added evidence of Purdom’s collection there can be no doubt that P. 
suffruticosa is a native of north-western China and was introduced from there into 
eastern China and into Japan. 
CLEMATIS L. 
Sect. VIORNA Prantl. 
Ser. CnisPAE Prantl. 
Clematis pogonandra Maximowiez in Act. Hort. Petrop. XI. 8 
(1890). — Finet & Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, L. 550 (1903); 
Contrib. Fl. As. Or. I. 35 (1905). — Hemsley in Kew Bull. Misc. 
Inform. 1906, 148. 
Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, rocky places, alt. 1300- 
1600 m., July 1907 (No. 2489; climber, 2-2.5 m. flowers bronzy- 
