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glabris, antheris anguste oblongis pallidis 1.5-2 mm. longis glabris 
obtusis, loculis marginalibus; pistilla stamina paullo superantia, 
ovario ovoideo eomplanato glabro, stylo 5-6 mm. longo piloso, stig- 
mate recurvo glabro. Achaenia circiter 10, brunnea, ovoidea, circiter 
6 mm. longa et 3 mm. lata, glabra in stylum persistentem pilis longis 
plumosum curvatum 1.5-2 em. longum attenuata. 
Western Szech'uan: west of Kuan Hsien, Pan-lan-shan, thickets, 
alt. 4000—4300 m., June 24, 1908 (No. 2480, type); Min Valley near 
Mao-chou, alt. 2300 m., September 1910 (No. 4045); vicinity of 
'Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 2600 m., September 1910 (No. 4345). 
Western Kansu: Min-chou, alt. 2600 m., 1911, and Choni dis- 
trict, alt. 2600-3000 m., 1911, W. Purdom. 
A pretty species closely related to C. montana Buchanan-Hamilton from which 
it is readily distinguished by its small, pinnate leaves. Though rather widely 
distributed this new species is nowhere common. 
Clematis montana Buchanan-Hamilton apud De Candolle, Syst. 
I. 164 (1818); Prodr. I. 9 (1824). — Wallich Pl. As. Rar. III. t. 217 
(1832). — Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, II. t. 253 (1835). — Lindley in 
Bot. Reg. XXVI. t. 58 (1840). — Rev. Hort. 1856, 161, f. 43.— 
Hooker f. & Thomson in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. I. 2 (1872). — 
Lavallée, Clem. t. XXII (1884).— Kuntze in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 
XXVI. 141 (Monog. Clem.) (1885). — Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. 
Paris, sér. 2. VIII. 184 (Pl. David. II. 2) (1885-86); Pl. Delavay. I. 
5 (1889). — Pritzel in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 333 (1900). — Finet & 
Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, L. 524 (1903); Contrib. Fl. As. 
Or. I. 9 (1905). 
Clematis anemoniflora D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 192 (1825). 
Clematis Punduana Wallich, Cat. No. 4682 (nomen nudum) (1828). 
Anemone curta Wallich, Cat. No. 4690 (nomen nudum) (1828). 
Clematis montana, 8. normalis Kuntze in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. XXVI. 
141 (Monog. Clem.) (1885). 
Clematis Kuntziana Léveillé & Vaniot in Bull. Acad. Intern. Géog. Bot. XI. 
171 (1902). 
Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, thickets, alt. 2300-2600 m., 
August 1907 (No. 2464; climber 3-5 m., flowers white); without 
locality, A. Henry (No. 6887). Western Szech'uan: Ching-chi 
Hsien, Ta-hsiang-ling, thickets, alt. 1600-2000 m., May 1908 (No. 
2460; climber 3 m., flowers white); west of Kuan Hsien, Pan-lan- 
shan, margins of woods, alt. 2300-3000 m., October 1910 (No. 4145; 
climber 3-6 m.). 
