Tas. 8395. 
CLEMATIS CHRYSOCOMA. 
China. 
RANUNCULACEAR. Tribe CLEMATIDEAE. 
Ciematis, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 3. 
Clematis chrysocoma, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, vol. xxxiii. p. 262 ; 
Finet & Gagnep. Contrib. Fl. As. Or. i. 10; affinis C. montanae, Ham., a qua 
indumento grossiore densiore rece Jit. 
Fruticulus humilis ramis erectis vel decumbentibus pallide brunneis sparse 
pilosis. olia trifoliolata; petiolus 2°5-7 cm. longus, dense pilosus ; 
foliola petiolulata, ambitu elliptico-obovata, grosse 3-5-dentata, subtus 
dense subsericeo-pilosa, pilis exsiccando aureis, supra sparsius pilosa, 
terminalia conspicue petiolulata, 2-4 cm. longa, 1°5-3°5 em. lata, lateralia 
breviter petiolulata, minora. ores solitarii bini vel terni,e ramulis valde 
abbreviatis foliatis orti. Pedunculi 4-7 em. longi, crassiusculi, dense 
pilosi, sursum incrassati. Sepala 4, patentia, obovato-elliptica, apiculata, 
1-8 cm. longa, 1:2 cm. lata, alba margine roseo, supra glabra, subtus 
sericeo-pubescentia. Peta/a nulla. Stamina numerosa; filamenta appla- 
nata, linearia vel oblongo-linearia; antherae oblongae vel oblongo-lineares, 
deorsum leviter angustatae, 3-3°5 mm. longae. Pistilla numerosa, con- 
gesta, dense villosa, apicibus stylorum purpureo-brunneorum exceptis. 
alchaenia compressa, pilosa, stylis longis plumosis.—T. A. SpRaGuE. 
The Clematis here figured is a Chinese plant which 
approaches very closely to the Eastern Himalayan form 
treated by Mr. Briihl as a variety, var. chumbica, of 
C. montana, Ham.; it differs chiefly from the Chumbi 
Valley plant in its coarser indumentum, and it is possible 
that the two may not be specifically distinct. But until a 
revision of the numerous varieties of C. montana recognised 
by Briihl has been effected it is desirable to maintain 
C. chrysocoma as a separate species. The plant which has 
supplied the material for our figure was presented to the 
Kew collection by Mr. M. L. de Vilmorin in the spring of 
1910. It grew very well during the summer and flowered 
abundantly from the old wood. Unfortunately, it does not 
promise to be very hardy, and at the first frost died down to 
the woody base, so that it was necessary to take up the plant 
and house it during the winter. The plant is easily pro- 
pagated by cuttings made of nearly ripened wood. 
SepremBer, 1911, 
