TAB: Gade. 
MUTISIA CLEMATIS. 
Tropical Andes. 
ComposiTtaAE. Tribe MUTISIACEAR. 
Motista, Linn. f.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 485. 
Mutisia Clematis, Linn. f. Suppl. 373; Cav. Ic. vol. v. t. 492; Lamk. Jil. 
_ +, 690, fig. 1; H. B. et K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vol. iv. p. 15; Less. in Linnaea, 
vol. v. p. 266; DC. Prodr. vol. vii. p.5; Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. v. p. 501, 
fig. 88 ; species M. grandiflorae, Humb. et Bonpl. affinis, sed ab ea foliolis 
4-5-jugis cum capitulis antherisque minoribus, et bracteis involucri in- 
terioribus plerumque obtusis differt. 
Tlerba scandens; caulis fruticosus, sulcatus, lanato-tomentosus. Folia alterna, ~ 
pinnata, rhachi in cirrhum producta; foliola subchartacea; 4-5-juga, 
breviter petiolulata, oblongo-lanceolata, apice obtusa vel subacuta, 
mucronata, margine integra, 1-5-4 cm. longa, 0°8-1°3 cm. lata, supra 
primum parce lanata, mox glabrescentia, subtus lanato-tomentosa. Capitula 
pendula, anguste oblongo-cylindrica, 6-7 cm. longa, apice circiter 6 cm. 
diametro. Jnvolucri bracteae 4-5-seriatae, exteriores plus minusve ovato- 
lanceolatae, interiores lineari-oblongae, obtusae, usque ad 3°5 em. longae, 
lcm. latae, extra tomentosae. Jores radii 9-10, recurvi, coccinei ; corollae 
tubus cylindricus, 4 cm. longus, 1:25 mm. diametro, glaber ; lamina ovato- 
elliptica, trifida, 2 cm. longa, 1 cm. lata, glabra. Stylus breviter exsertus. 
Flores disci numerosi; corollae tubus cylindricus, 4 em. longus, sub 
anthesin paullo infra medium longitudinaliter apertus; lobi lineares, 
subacuti. -Antherae circiter 1°7 cm. longae, exsertae, ad apicem extra 
minute puberulae. Stylus circiter 5 mm. exsertus, 2-lobus, lobis dorso 
minute puberulis. Achkaenia oblonga, 3 mm. longa, laevia, glabra. Pappi 
setae 1-seriatae, 1°7 cm. longae, plumosae.—J. HurcHrnson. 
The genus Mutisia includes upwards of sixty species, all 
confined to the higher ranges of the Andes of tropical 
South America. Many of these are of considerable beauty 
and interest and well worthy of cultivation. As yet, 
however, only five or six species appear to have found 
their way into European gardens, and only three plates 
in this work, t. 2705, t. 5273 and t. 6009, have so far been 
given to the illustration of the genus. The species now 
figured, M. Clematis, is a native of Peru and Colombia and 
is the second of the group characterised by having pinnate 
leaves to appear in this Magazine; the pinnate-leaved form 
already depicted, I. speciosa, Ait., described under t. 2705, 
differs very markedly from our plant in having strongly 
reflexed outer involucra]l bracts. The nearest ally of 
M. Clematis is, however, M. grandiflora, Humb. et Bonpl., 
which has larger and fewer leaflets, larger flower heads, 
Aveust, 1911. 
