RANUNCULACEAE. — CLEMATIS 308 
This variable species is abundant on the mountains of central and western 
China. Of the specimens we have referred to the typical form that from Szech’uan 
has small and often entire leaflets. The varieties rubens Wilson and Wilsonii 
Sprague show a greater divergence from the type than any of the Himalayan 
specimens we have seen. 
Clematis montana, var. grandiflora Hooker in Bot. Mag. LXX. t. 
4061 (1844). 
Clematis montana, 8. normalis, 7. anemoniflora Kuntze in Verh. Bot. Ver. 
Brandenb. XXVI. 141 (Monog. Clem.) (1885). 
Western Szech'uan: west and near Wén-ch'uan Hsien, thickets, 
alt. 2000-2800 m., July 1908 (No. 2462; climber 4-5 m., flowers white) ; 
Mt. Omei, June 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4693); vicinity of Tachien-lu, 
alt. 3000-4500 m., A. E. Pratt (No. 125). 
This Chinese form is very handsome. 
Clematis montana, var. rubens Wilson in Flora & Sylva, III. 252, 
fig. (1905).—Jouin in Mitt. Deutsch. Dendr. Ges. XVI. 257 (1907). — 
Morel in Rev. Hort. 1909, 35, fig. 10, t. 
? Clematis montana, ò. normalis, 10. rubens Kuntze in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 
XXVI. 142 (Monog. Clem.) (1885). 
Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, thickets, alt. 1300- 
2300 m., May and October 1907 (No. 587, in part; climber 2-4 m., 
flowers rose-pink); Changyang Hsien, alt. 1300-1600 m., June 1907 
(No. 587, in part; flowers rose-pink); Hsing-shan Hsien, thickets, alt. 
1300-2300 m., May 25, 1907 (No. 587, in part; climber 2-4 m., flowers 
rose-pink); Fang Hsien, thickets and rocky places, alt. 2000-2600 m., 
May 27, 1907 (No. 2465; climber 2-3 m., flowers white with rose- 
pink reverse); without locality, May and June 1900 (Veiteh Exped. 
Nos. 633, 889); without locality, A. Henry (Nos. 5437, 54378). 
Western Szech'uan: west of Kuan Hsien, Niu-tou-shan, thickets, 
alt. 2600-3000 m., June 20, 1908 (No. 2463; climber 4 m., flowers 
white with rose-pink reverse); Chiu-ting-shan, alt. 1600 m., May 22, 
1908 (No. 2466; climber 4 m., flowers rose-pink). 
The foliage of this variety is very dark coloured and readily distinguishes the 
plant when out of flower. As Sprague (Bot. Mag. sub t. 8365) has pointed out, 
there is considerable doubt as to this Chinese plant being the same as the Indian 
plant to which Kuntze applied his name rubens, basing it upon a statement of 
Hooker & Thomson. By the Chinese in Hupeh this plant is called Ta-huai-t’ung. 
Clematis montana, var. Wilsonii Sprague in Bot. Mag. CXXXVII. 
t. 8365 (1910).— Horticulture, XI. 367, fig. (1910). 
