Tas. 6594, 
CLEMATIS COCUINEA. 
Native of Texas. 
Nat. Ord. RanuncuLacem.—Tribe CLEMATIDER. 
Genus Crematis, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 3.) 
CLEMATIS coccinea ; glaberrima, caule gracillimo scandente ramoso, foliis tenuiter 
coriaceis gracile petiolatis 3~5-foliolatis, foliolis gracillime petiolulatis lateralibus 
late ovetis ovato-cordatisve obtusis apiculatis convexis subtus glaucis inte- 
gerrimis reticulatim venosis, terminali majore et latiore integro v. 3-lobo, 
floribus solitariis longissime pedunculatis coccineis, perianthio ovoideo, sepalis 
glaberrimis marginibus sericeo-tomentosis crasse coriaceis ovato-lanceolatis 
erectis apicibus acutis recurvis, acheniis villosis, caudis elongatis plumosis 
persistentibus. 
C. coccinea, Engelm, in Gray Plant. Wright. part ii. p. 7. 
C. Pitcheri, Carriére in Rev. Hortic. 1878, p. 10; non Torr. et Gr. 
C. Viorna var. coccinea, A. Gray, l. e. 
Putting aside the large-flowered Japanese species of 
Clematis, as CO. florida, C. azwrea, &c., this is decidedly the 
most attractive of all that have lately been introduced into 
Europe, and, in point of brilliant colour, it is quite unique 
in the genus. It was first considered by Professor Asa Gray 
as a variety of OC. Viorna, an opinion which he has since 
abandoned, as will be seen by the appended key to the 
species of North American Clematis of this section with 
which he has favoured me, and which settles once for all 
that long-confused synonymy, to which I drew attention 
under Plate 6574. 
U. coccinea is a native of Texas, and was received in 1880 
at the Royal Gardens from the rich gardens of Max 
Leichtlin at Baden, and flowered in a cool conservatory in 
June of the present year. It, however, appears to be 
perfectly hardy, and a plant of it has been placed against 
a S.E. wall, where it has, up to this time, grown freely.— 
Ji BD Ae 
Fig. 1, Stamens; 2, ovary :—both enlarged. 
DECEMBER Ist, 1881. 
