326 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 
without precise locality, alt. 3000-3500 m., June 1904 (Veitch Exped. 
No. 3115). 
A pretty shrub with small pinnate leaves, silvery below, not common and re- 
stricted to dry, warm river valleys. 
Clematis fruticosa Turczaninow in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. V. 180 
(1832). — Maximowiez in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersbourg, XXII. 
210 (1876); in Mél. Biol. IX. 582 (1876); in Act. Hort. Petrop. X1. 5 
(1890). — Pritzel in Bot. Jahrb. X XIX. 331 (1900). — Finet & Gagne- 
pain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, L. 537 (1903); Contrib. Fl. As. Or. I. 
22 (1905). 
Clematis recta, a. fruticosa Kuntze in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. XXVI. 112 
(Monog. Clem.) (1885). 
Western Szech'uan: Monkong Ting, upper valley of Hsao- 
chin-ho, local, alt. 3000 m., June 1908 (No. 2483; bush 0.5-2 m. tall, 
flowers yellow). 
Our specimens are intermediate between the two forms distinguished by 
Turczaninow (l. e.), having the entire leaves and sub-glabrous sepals of var. a. viridis 
and the acuminate sepals of var. 8. canescens. 
This plant is very local in western Szech'uan, occurring only in arid places. 
Clematis Armandi Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, sér. 2, 
VIII. 184, t. 2 (Pl. David. II. 2) (1885).— Pritzel in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 
332 (1900). — Finet & Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, L. 526 
(1903); Contrib. Fl. As. Or. I. 11 (1905). — Gard. Chron. ser. 8, 
XXXVIII. 30, t. (1905). — Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. 
XVII. 269 (1910). 
Clematis hedysarifolia, Y- Armandi Kuntze in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 
XXVI. 152 (Monog. Clem.) (1885). 
Clematis Biondiana Pavolini in Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ort. XXXII. 285 (1907); in 
Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XV. 401 (1908). 
Western Hupeh: Changyang Hsien, thickets, alt. 600-1300 m., 
April and July 1907- (No. 95, in part; climber 2-5 m., flowers white, 
fragrant); Hsing-shan Hsien, alt. 600-1300 m., April 1907 (No. 95, in 
part; climber 2-5 m., evergreen, flowers white); Patung Hsien, banks 
of Yangtsze river, alt. 60 m., March 23, 1908 (No. 2468; climber 4 m., 
flowers white); without locality, April 1900 (Veitch Exped., Nos. 2, 
26); without locality, A. Henry (Nos. 1468, 3377, 5998, 7784, 5223°, 
52235, 5223°); “ Kao-kien-sian,” alt. 800 m., May-June 1907, C. Sil- 
vestri (No. 629). Western Szech’uan: Chiu-ting-shan, thickets, 
alt. 1600 m., May and September 1908 (No. 855; climber 3-4 m., 
