RANUNCULACEAE. — CLEMATIS 339 
Clematis Gouriana Roxburgh apud De Candolle, Syst. I. 138 (1818); 
Prodr. I. 3 (1824). — Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. II. 670 (1832). — Wight, 
Icon. III. fig. 933, 934 (1843-1850). — Hooker f. & Thomson in 
Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. I. 4 (1875). — Maximowiez in Act. Hort. 
Petrop. XI. 9 (1890). — Pritzel in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 332 (1900). 
Clematis Gouriana Roxburgh, Cat. Hort. Beng. 43 (nomen nudum) (1814). 
Clematis cana Wallich, Cat. No. 4672 (nomen nudum) (1828). 
Clematis Vitalba, a. Gauriana [sic] Kuntze in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. XXVI. 
100 (Monog. Clem.) (1885). 
Clematis substipulata Kuntze, 1. c. 147 (1885). 
Clematis Vitalba, 8. Cl. Gouriana Finet & Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 
L. 532 (1903); Contrib. Fl. As. Or. I. 17 (1905). 
Western Szech'uan: west and near Wén-ch'uan Hsien, thickets, 
alt. 1000-1300 m., July and November 1908 (No. 1229; climber 3-6 
m., flowers white); Mt. Omei, September 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 
4694). Western Hupeh: without locality, July and September 
1900 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 1706, 2397); without locality, A. Henry 
(Nos. 2946, 4329); vicinity of Ichang, A. Henry (No. 3090). 
Shensi: Tai-pei-shan, 1910, W. Purdom. Yunnan: Mengize, alt. 
1500-1600 m., A. Henry (Nos. 9104, 10148); Mi-lé district, A. Henry 
(No. 10306); Szemao, alt. 2000 m., A. Henry (No. 13432). 
This rather variable species is widely distributed in China and is very abundant 
throughout the warmer parts of the Empire. The flowers are small, borne in 
very large axillary and terminal panicles. The leaves vary considerably in size 
and are either glabrous or puberulous, entire or more or less toothed. In No. 1229 
the leaves are more coarsely toothed than usual. 
The perulate character on which Kuntze based his C. substipulata, is common 
to C. Gouriana and its varieties, and can always be found on any plant of this 
Species, and especially on the stronger shoots. 
Clematis Gouriana, var. Finetii Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 
A typo recedit achaeniis glabris, atrobrunneis, orbiculari-ovoideis 
compressis. 
Clematis Vitalba, 8. Cl. Gouriana, forma substipulata Finet & Gagnepain in 
Bull. Soc. Bot. France, L. 532 (pro parte, non C. substipulata O. Kuntze) 
(1903); Contrib. Fl. As. Or. I. 17 (1905). 
Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, thickets, alt. 600-1300 m., 
July and December 1907 (No. 672, type; climber 3-5 m.); north and 
south of Ichang, alt. 600-1300 m., July and December 1907 (No. 
672"); without locality, A. Henry (No. 6461). 
__In the Gray Herbarium there is a specimen collected in Concan, by Stocks, 
which is presumably the same as that on which Kuntze founded his C. substipulata 
