Tab. 6369. 



CLEMATIS grewi^floea. 



Native of the Himalaya Mountains. 



Nat. Ord. Ranunculace.e.— Tribe ClematidevE. 

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



Clematis grewim flora; alte scandens, dense fulvo-tomentosa, foliis pinnatisootis, 

 foliolis 3-5 coriaceis longe petiolulatis late ovatis v. ovato-cordatis lobulatis 

 v. obtuse dentatis serratisve ceterum integerrimis v. denticulatis grosse 

 reticulatis nervis subtus crassis, paniculis axillaribus pluriflons rarms 

 ramulisque robustis divaricatis, alabastris ovoideie, floribus majusculis 

 campanulatis dense fulvo-tomentosis, sepalis coriaceis lineari v. late-oblongis, 

 costatis apicibus revolutis acuminatis, filamentis linearibus carpellisque longe 

 pilosis. 



C. grewiseflora, DC. Syst. Veg. vol. i. p. 140 ; Prodr. vol. i. p. 4. Don, Prodr.Fl. 

 Nep. p. 191. Wall. Cat. No. 4678. Hook. f. et Tlioms. Flor. Ind. vol. i. 

 p. 10. Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. i. p. 6. 



The Himalaya mountains are the head-quarters of the 

 genus Clematis in respect of number and variety of forms, 

 and many of the species are of great beauty. Witness the 

 C. montana (Plate 4061), C. graveolens (Plate 4495), C. 

 smilacifolia (Plate 4259), C. barbellata (Plate 4794), and 

 others not hitherto introduced, though none of them attain 

 the size or have the beauty of colour of the Japanese species of 

 the Florida and Fortunei set. Most of the above are perfectly 

 hardy ; this is not the case with C. grewiwflora, which requires 

 a cool greenhouse, when it forms an immense rambling 

 climber, which at Kew ascended in a few years to the gallery 

 of the Temperate House, along the rail of which it ran for 

 many feet, flowering profusely in early spring. The species 

 is very nearly allied to C. Buchananiana, also a 'Himalayan 

 species, under which name it wa received from the Calcutta 

 Botanic Gardens about twelve years ago. It, however, differs 

 from that plant in its much more dense clothing of villous 

 fulvous hairs, as also in the shape of the leaflets. It has a 

 very wide Himalayan range, being common towards the base 

 of the range from Kumaon to Bhotan, ascending to four 



June 1st, 1878. 



