Tas. 6542. 
CLEMATIS ATHUSEFOLIA, var. latisecta. 
Native of Amur-land and N. China. 
Nat. Ord. RanuncuLacem.—Tribe CLEMATIDER. 
Genus Ciematis, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 3.) 
Criematis (Flammula) ethusefolia ; scandens, ‘glaberrima v. puberula, caulibus 
gracilibus angulatis sulcatisque, foliis parvis 2-3-pinnatisectis, segmentis cuneatis 
incisis v. pinnatilobatis obtusis angusto linearibus v. oblongis v. obovatis, 
pedunculis solitariis binis ternisve elongatis gracilibus erectis apice decurvis, | 
floribus inter minoribus 4—} poll. longis cylindraceo-campanulatis, sepalis 4 
oblongis coherentibus albis dorso pubescentibus apicibus latis liberis {paullo 
recurvis obtusis v. subacutis, filamentis dilatatis. 
C. xthusefolia, Zurcz. Decad. Pl. Chin. p.2; Walp. Rep. vol. i. p. 5. 
Var. latisecta, folioruam segmentis latis. 
Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 12; Regel Flor. Ussur.n.4; Gartenfl. 1861, p. 342, 
t. 342. C. xthusefolia, Carriére in Rev. Hortic. 1869, p. 10, ewm Ic. Xylog. 
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A very graceful climber, perfectly hardy, as might be 
anticipated from its native country, which extends from the 
neighbourhood of Pekin—whence we have examined dried 
Specimens collected by Dr. Bushell, late of the Chinese 
Embassy, and others—to the Amur river. It varies greatly 
in the breadth of the leaf-segments ; those of the originally- 
described form being divided into very narrow linear lobes, 
whilst in that figured here they are as broad as long, aud in 
Maximovicz’s specimen of this same variety (latisecta) they 
are an inch long and cuneiform. The flowers are, though 
not conspicuous, exceedingly graceful, very abundantly 
produced, and pendulous from stiff erect peduncles. 
The specimen here figured is from a plant that has long 
been in the Kew collection, and was, no doubt, received 
from the St. Petersburg Botanic Gardens; it flowers as 
late as September and October. __ 
Descr. A slender glabrous or puberulous climber. Stems 
and branches angled and grooved. Leaves one to two 
_ FEBRUARY Ist, 1881. 
