Tas. 8367. 
CLEMATIS aristata, var. DENNISAE. 
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Australia. 
RANUNCULACEAE. Tribe CLEMATIDEAE. 
Ciematis, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 3. 
Clematis aristata, 2. Br., var. Dennisae, W. R. Guilf. in Ic.; varietas 
pulchra filamentis salmoneo-rubris distincta. 
Frutex dioicus, scandens, sempervirens, caule striato parcissime puberulo. 
Folia opposita, trifoliolata; petioli 4°5-7-5 cm. longi; petioluli 1-3°5 em. 
longi; foliola ovato-lanceolata vel lanceolata, acute caudato-acuminata 
acumine recurvo, basi cordata vel truncata, 5-10 cm. longa, 1-8-4°5 cm. 
lata, grosse dentato-serrata, glabra, opaca, basi quinquenervia, nervis 
exterioribus patulis, intermediis versus apicem currentibus juxta medium 
folii cum nervis superioribus lateralibus patulis connexis. Paniculae 
axillares, pluriflorae ; rhachis usque ad 2 cm. longa, breviter dense pilosa ; 
bracteae late subulatae marginibus incurvis, 3°5-5 mm. longae ; pedunculi 
decussati, uniflori, densiuscule pilosi, apice bibracteati, 3-10 mm. longi ; 
pedicelli 3°5-5 em. longi, pilosi. Flores masculi: Sepala 4, aestivatione 
valvata, alba, lanceolato-ligularia, apice obtusa, in basin leviter angustata, 
2-2°5 cm. longa, 4°5-7 mm. lata, extra pubescentia, intus glabra. Stamina 
numerosa ; filamenta salmoneo-rubra, linearia, extima circiter 7 mm. longa, 
intima circiter 2 mm. longa; antherae oblongae usque lineares, extimae 
2-5 mm. longae appendice exclusa, intimae 4 mm. longae, connectivo apice 
ultra thecas in appendicem subulatam circiter 1-7 mm. longam producto. 
Rudimenta pistillorum nulla, Flores feminei et achaenia ignoti.—C. Sanderi, 
W. Wats. in Gard. Chron. 1907, vol. xli. p. 310.—T. A. Spraaus. 
Clematis aristata, R. Br., to which the form here figured 
is referred, is a native of Australia. The species was 
originally based on specimens from New South Wales, 
but in the Flora Australiensis a somewhat comprehensive 
view was adopted by the late Mr. Bentham, who attributes 
to C. aristata a wide distribution, and assigns to it several 
varieties. It is now, however, generally believed that the 
variety coriacea of that work includes at least the typical 
C. aristata and C. coriacea, DC., that the variety blanda is 
the distinct Tasmanian C. blanda, Hook., and that the 
variety occidentalis is the equally distinct Western Aus- 
tralian C. pubescens, Hueg. Some authorities, on the other 
hand, have treated as distinct certain forms that are usually 
referred to typical C. aristata, and in the case of the subject 
APRIL, 1911, 
