RANUNCULACEAE. — CLEMATIS 329 
Hsien, thickets, alt. 1300 m., July and October 1907 (No. 426, in part; 
climber 3-5 m., flowers white). 
Very common in western Hupeh up to 1300 m. alt. The fulvous colored awns 
are strikingly handsome. 
Clematis obscura Maximowicz in Act. Hort. Petrop. XI. 6 (1890). 
Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, thickets, alt. 1100 m., June 
1907 (No. 2478; climber 2-3m., flowers white). Western Sze- 
ch’uan: near Chungking, banks of Yangtsze river, alt. 300 m., April 
1908 (No. 2471; climber 2-3 m., flowers white); Chiu-ting-shan, 
thickets, alt. 1300-1500 m., May 26, 1908 (No. 2472; climber 
2-4 m., flowers white, fragrant); near Sungpan, thickets, alt. 2300- 
2600 m., August 1910 (No. 4549; climber 2-3 m., flowers white). 
Shensi: north-west of Han-cheng Hsien, 1910, W. Purdom (No. 382). 
This plant always dries black and at first sight suggests a large-flowered variety 
of Clematis chinensis Retzius. The leaves, however, are usually pinnately 7-folio- 
late, the basal pair being often trifid or even trifoliolate. The leaflets vary con- 
siderably in size and shape and in depth of the incisions; the flowers are often 4 cm. 
across, with 5-8 sepals and are fragrant; the awns are fulvous-brown. 
Clematis chinensis Retzius, Observ. II. 18, No. 53, t. 2 (1781). — 
De Candolle, Syst. T. 137 (1818); Prodr. 1. 3 (1824). — Forbes in Jour. 
Bot. XXII. 262 (1884). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 3 
(1886). — Pritzel in Bot. Jahrb. X XIX. 332 (1900). — Finet & Gagne- 
pain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, L. 535 (pro parte) (1903); Contrib. Fl. 
As. Or. I. 20 (pro parte) (1905). 
Clematis sinensis Loureiro, Fl. Cochin. 345 (1790). 
Clematis minor Loureiro, Fl. Cochin. 345 (1790). — De Candolle Syst. I. 136 
(1818). — Forbes in Jour. Bot. XXII. 263 (1884). 
Clematis recta, £. chinensis Kuntze in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. XXVI. 114 
(Monog. Clem.) (1885). 
Clematis funebris Léveillé & Vanoit in Bull. Acad. Intern. Géog. Bot. XI. 168 
(1902). 
Kiangsi: Kuling, thickets, alt. 1300 m., July 30, 1903 (No. 1550; 
climber 2.5-3 m., flowers white). Western Hupeh: Ichang, 
thickets, alt. 300-1000 m., June 6-August 1907 (Nos. 2473, 2477; 
climbers 2-3 m., flowers white); without locality, August 1900 (Veitch 
Exped. Nos. 1679, 1306); without locality, A. Henry (Nos. 1601, 
4328, 4348, 6220). Western Szech'uan: Kiating Fu, roadside 
thickets, alt. 300-600 m., September 5, 1908 (No. 1357; climber 2- 
3 m., flowers white, fragrant); banks of Yangtsze river, April 1903 
(Veitch Exped. 3124). 
