Tas. 6810. 
CLEMATIS STANS. 
Native of Japan. 
Nat. Ord. RanuncvuLtacem.—Tribe CLEMATIDER. 
Genus Ciematis, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 3.) 
CLEMATIS stans ; herbacea, molliter pubescens, caulibus sulcatis et angulatis strictis 
erectis, foliis 3-foliolatis, foliolis amplis oblique ovato-rotundatis acutis grosse 
dentatis v. sublobatis rugosis superioribus angustioribus, floribus subverti- 
cillatim confertis pendulis opalinis, verticillis in paniculum contractam termi- 
nalem dispositis, sepalis linearibus acuminatis extus sericeo-velutinis apicibus 
recurvis, antheris linearibus filamento subequilongis. 
C. stans, Sieb. and Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. i. 69; Franchet and Savat, En. 
Pl. Jap. vol. i. p.2; Regel, Gartenfl. t. 357. 
C. Kousabotan, Dene. in Nouv. Archiv. du Mus. Ser. ii. vol. iv. p. 208, t. 13. 
Under C. tubulosa, var. Hookeri (Tab. 6801), I announced 
the forthcoming of a plate of C. stans, expressing at the 
same time my hope that the history of the group of 
Travellers’-joys to which it belongs, might, before its publi- 
cation, be cleared up by Messrs. Forbes and Hemsley in 
their forthcoming census of the plants of China. These 
botanists now inform me that they follow Maximovicz in 
considering all the so-called species of this group (0. 
tubulosa, Turez (Tab. 4269), Davidiana, Dene., Hookeri, 
Dene. (Tab. 6801), C. stans, S. and Z., C. Kousabotan, 
Dene., C. Lavallei, Dene., and C. Savatieri, Dene.) as 
varieties of one, and that one the old C. heracleefolia, DC. 
(Syst. Pl. i. 158; Prodr.i. 3), a native of China, and of 
which, therefore, many forms are now known to occur in 
Japan. Whilst quite ready to subscribe to this opinion of 
regarding C. heracleewfolia as an aggregate species, I may 
point out that it seems to me to present five principal types, 
three of which are characteristically figured in this work, 
namely, 1. The Chinese (. tubulosa, .Turez (Davidiana, 
Dene.) ; erect, with axillary broad deep blue flowers, the 
sepals of which are revolute from far below the middle, _ 
APRIL Ist, 1885. ; 
