OSS Re 
Tas 4259. 
CLEMATIS sminactrotia. 
Smilazx-leaved Clematis. 
Nat. Ord. RanuNcULACEH.—POLYANDRIA PoLyGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Involucrum nullum, aut calyciforme sub flore. Sepala 4—8 colorata. 
Petala nulla, aut sepalis breviora. Caryopsides numerose, in caudam sepius bar- 
bato-plumosam productz.—Radices perennes. Folia exacte opposita. DC. 
CLEMATIS smilacifolia ; scandens dioica, foliis amplis longe petiolatis simplicibus 
cordato-ovatis breviter acuminatis glabris 5—7-nerviis integerrimis vel obso- 
lete et glanduloso-serratis, racemis paniculatis axillaribus vel terminalibus, 
sepalis 4 oblongis acutis extus ferrugineo-tomentosis cito revolutis, fructus 
caudibus plumosis. 
CLEMATIS smilacifolia. Wall. in Asiat. Res. v.13. p.420. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. 
p. 10. ; 
CLEMATIS smilacina. Bl. Bijdr. p. 1. 
Ciematis glandulosa ? Bi. J. ¢. 
CLEMATIS subpeltata. Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. p. 19. t. 20. 
A fine but very little known species of “ Traveller's Joy ”, with 
large scandent stems, handsome undivided leaves, marked with 
from five to seven nerves, much resembling those of some Smilaz, 
large paniculated racemes of dicecious or moncecious flowers, 
having singularly revolute sepals, dark rusty brown and downy 
without, almost black and glabrous within. Four allied species, 
with these characters, have been described by Blume and 
Wallich : but which, judging from the diagnoses of the authors, 
as well as by herbarium specimens, might reasonably be united 
into one, the original smilacifolia of Dr. Wallich from Nepal. 
Of the identity of our plant, introduced from Java to the stoves 
of this country (where it flowers in June and July), I have satis- 
fied myself by comparison with authentic specimens. The Cle- 
matis, n. 1006 of Zollinger’s ‘ Java Plants,’ seems quite to agree 
with the C7. glandulosa of Blume, but I can in no way distinguish 
it from C/. smilacifolia. The C7. smilacina of Blume 1s probably 
a misprint for “ smilacifolia”’, and intended to be considered 
the plant of Wallich; and lastly, of the Clematis subpeltata of 
OCTOBER Ist, 1846. 
