Tas. 4495. 
CLEMATIS GraveEo.ens. 
Heavy-scented Traveller's Joy. 
Nat. Ord. RanuNcULACE®.—PoLyaNDRIA PoLyayN1a. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4259.) 
Crematis (Flammula) graveolens ; scandens glaberrima gracilis, caule filiformi 
obtuse angulato, foliis pinnatim bi-triternatis, foliolis parvis 3-partitis 3- 
lobisque laciniis ovatis integris nunc hine. inciso-serratis, pedunculis axilla- 
ribus elongatis unifloris folio longioribus, sepalis 4 ovatis acutis crassis 
intus pubescentibus, filamentis subulatis hirsutis, acheniis pubescentibus 
caudis plumosis. 
CLEMATIS graveolens. Lindl. in Journ. of Hort. Soc. v. 1. p. 307. cum Ic. 
A small but elegant climbing species of Clematis, quite hardy 
when planted against a wall, as may be expected from the fact’ 
that it is a native of Chinese Tartary and the snowy passes of 
Western Himalaya, at an elevation of 12,000 feet above the 
level of the sea. In such situations it was detected by our 
friend Capt. Wm. Munro, of the — Regt., who sent seeds of 
it to England in 1844; and, in similar localities, it was found 
three years afterwards by Dr. Thomas Thomson, during his 
interesting journeys into Thibet (as related in the recent volumes 
of the ‘London Journal of Botany’), who sent the seeds to the 
Botanic Gardens of Kew. It flowers through the summer 
months. We could scarcely perceive any odour in the flower 
of our plant; but that may depend on the state of the 
atmosphere. 
Descr. Our plant attains a height of about six feet, forming 
a much branching climbing glabrous shrub. Branches slender, 
obtusely angled. Zeaves opposite, variously divided in a pin- 
nated manner, bi- or triternate; the leaftets all petioled, ovate or 
lanceolate, entire or one- or two-lobed, odes acute or acuminate. 
Peduncles longer than the leaves, slender, single-flowered. Buds 
drooping. lowers inclined, moderately large, pale yellowish- 
green. Sepals four, spreading, ovate, acute, rather thick, silky 
‘™ the inside. Stamens numerous : filaments subulate, hairy : 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1850. 
