Tab. 7897. 

 CLEMATIS MisrromNA. 



Native of China. 



Nat. Ord. Eanunculace.k. — Tribe Clematide^. 

 Genus Clematis, Linn.; (Benth. $ Hook, f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 3.) 



Clematis (Flammula) Meyeniana ; frutex alte scandens, sempervirens, glaber 

 v. parce pubescent, cortice fusco-purpureo, foliis 3-foliolutia, foliolis 

 petiolulatis 2-l£ poll. loogia coriaceis ellipticis ovatia oblongis lanceo- 

 latisve integevrimis obtusis acntis acuminatisve 3-nerviis supra nitidis 

 saturate viridibus subtus glabris puberulisve basi rotundatis v. cordatis, 

 paniculEe effm-aa laxiflorro ramulis triobotomis basi nudis v. bracteis 1-3 

 coriaceis integria lobatisve auctis, alabistris oblongis pallide flavig, 

 floribns 1| poll, diara., sepalis lineari-oblongis apice bidentatia albij 

 marginibus tomentellip, staminibus sepalis duplo brevioribua, antberia 

 linearibus aureis tilamenta glabra subosquantibus, achteaiis ^ poll, longis 

 obovoideis compressis villosis tiavo-brunneis, cauda pluraosa li-pollicari. 



C. Meyeniana, Walp. in JSfov. Act. Nat. Our. Misc. vol. xix. Suppl. i. (181-3) 

 p. 297 ; Bepert. Bot. vol. v. p. 3. Benth. in Hook. Kew Qard. Misc. vol. iii. 

 (1851) p. 256"; FL Hongk. p. 6. Maxim, in Mel. Biol. vol. ix. p. 597. 

 Ilemsl. in Journ. Linn. ^Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. (1886) p. 5. Seem. Bot. Voy. 

 Herald, p. 361. 



C. Armandi, Franch. PI. David, vol. ii. p. 2, t. 2. 



C. oreophila, Hance in Walp. Ann. vol. ii. p. 3. 



C. hedysarifolia, Bot. Beg. t. 599, non DC. 



C. hedysarifolia, DC. var. a, j3, 8, Kuntze, Monogr. Gait. Clem. p. 152. 



Clematis Meyeniana is a very variable plant, and it is 

 not surprising that so excellent a Chinese botanist as Mt\ 

 Hance should have described it under another name 

 (G. oreophila), when, according to Walpers, the founder of 

 the species, the panicles are said to be shorter than the 

 leaves and few-flowered, and the sepals rufous externally. 

 The figure in the Botanical Register, under the erroneous 

 name of C. hedysarifolia, DC, an Indian species, is very 

 good, but represents a form with flowers only an inch in 

 diameter, with very pale anthers; it shows the bidentate 

 tips of the sepals, which is overlooked by all other authors, 

 who describe them as being acute. It appears to be a 

 very common plant in S.E. China, from the province of 

 Chekiang to Kwantung, and is found also in Cochin China, 

 Formosa, and theLuchu Islands. In Hongkong it occurs 

 in great abundance in almost every ravine, flowering in 



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