longer anthers and acutely tipped involucral bracts. Of 
the various species that have been brought under cultiva- 
tion M. Clematis has proved much the easiest to manage. 
Thirty years ago it clothed a considerable portion of the 
South Octagon in the Temperate House at Kew, its shoots 
growing as vigorously as a Cobaea and providing an 
abundant crop of flowers every spring. The plant from 
which the material used for our illustration was derived 
grows against a pillar in the Himalayan section of the 
same house, where it flowers freely in May. Evergreen in 
habit, it has the disadvantage of presenting a somewhat 
unprepossessing appearance in winter, owing to its foliage 
and young shoots suffering to some extent, but by the 
removal of all weak growth early in the year the plant 
very soon comes into condition again. It can be propagated 
sie cuttings formed of half-ripened shoots, as well as from 
seeds, 
Descriprion.—LHerb, climbing; stem rather woody, 
grooved, woolly pubescent. Leaves alternate, pinnate, 
their rachises produced into tendrils; leaflets firm, 4—5- 
paired, shortly stalked, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or sub- 
acute, mucronate, entire, 3-1} in. long, 1—} in. wide, at 
first sparingly woolly above, soon almost glabrous, under- 
neath woolly-pubescent. fleads pendulous, narrowly 
oblong-cylindric, 24-23 in. long, about 24 in. across at 
the top. Bracts of the involucre 4~—5-seriate, the outer 
more or less ovate-lanceolate, the inner linear-oblong, 
obtuse, the largest 14 in. long, 5 lin. wide, tomentose out- 
side, Leay-florets 9-10, recurved, bright red; corolla-tube 
cylindric, 15 in. long, under 1 lin. wide, glabrous; ray 
ovate-elliptic, 3-fid, 3 in. long, 5 lin. wide, glabrous. Style 
shghtly exserted, Disk-florets numerous; corolla-tube 
cylindric, 14 in. long, when open longitudinally split 
rather below the middle; lobes linear, subacute. Anthers 
about 2 in. long, exserted, finely puberulous at the tip on 
the outer side. Style distinctly exserted, 2-lobed, lobes 
finely puberulous on the back. Achenes oblong, 13 lin. 
long, smooth, glabrous. Pappus Il-seriate, the setae 
plumose, 2 in. long. 
Fig. 1, part of a leaf showi : : 
, ng the mucronate tip; 2 flower of the ray; 3, @ 
pappus-seta; 4, flower of the disk; 5, anther; 6, sileeriae :—all enlarged. 
