Tas. 4269. 
CLEMATIS rusvtosa. 
Tubular flowered Clematis or Virgin's Bower. 
Nat. Ord. RanuNcULACE®.—PoOLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4259.) 
Ciematis tubulosa; erecta subpubescens dioica (?), foliis longe petiolatis tri- 
foliolatis, foliolis rhombeo-ovatis sublobatis mucronato-dentatis venosis 
lateralibus inzequilateris brevi- intermedio longe petiolatis, corymbis termi- 
nalibus axillaribusque subcompositis, sepalis lineari-oblongis primum tubu- 
losis demum revolutis (ceruleis) extus pubescentibus, staminibus uniseriali- 
bus, filamentis (sub 16) dilatatis, ovariis stylisque sericeis, stigmate recurvato. 
CLEMATIS tubulosa. “ Turczan. Bullet. Se. Nat. Mosc. xi. 148.” Walp. Enum. 
0.1. p. 5. 
A handsome but singular-looking Clematis, with an upright, 
slightly branched stem, long petioled leaves, and clusters of 
blue flowers. These leaves have rather the appearance of some 
Actea. It is a native of northern China, and has flowered 
in the greenhouse of the “‘ United Gardeners’ Nursery Society ”, 
King’s Road, Chelsea, under the care of Messrs. Weeks and 
Day, whence it was obligingly sent, in great beauty, by Mr. 
Makowski. 
Dauscr. Stem two feet high, erect, slightly branched, somewhat 
woody at the base, the rest herbaceous, striated and tinged with 
purple. Leaves in opposite pairs, remote, on long footstalks, 
swollen at the base, terete, grooved above, trifoliolate ; the /eaflets 
rigid, slightly downy, rhombeo-ovate, the two lower, or lateral 
ones, unequally sided and on short opposite petiolules ; the inter- 
mediate one on much the longest petiole, equal ; all of them lobed 
and toothed, each tooth mucronate, the surface reticulated, the 
veins very prominent beneath. F/owers in axillary and terminal : 
corymbs, simple or compound ; peduncles and pedicels downy. 
Sepals four, linear-oblong, thick and rather fleshy, distinct, but 
approximate, bluish-purple, silky, at first erect and forming a tube, 
then reflexed, the lower half slightly swollen, base only tubular. 
Stamens about sixteen, in a single series. Fi/aments dilated : 
DECEMBER Ist, 1846. 2M 
