Tab. 8655. 



CLEMATIS Pavoliniana. 



China, 



Ranuxcclaceae. Tribe Clkmatii>kae. 

 Clematis, Linn. ; Bentli. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 8. 



Clematis Pavoliniana, Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. 1910, n.s. 

 vol. xvii. p. 270 ; Behder et E. H. Wilson, in Sarg. PI. Wils. vol. i. p. 328 ; 

 affinis C Meyenianae, Walp., a qua inflorescentia triflora vel racemosa 

 pauciflora, sepalis quam staminibus conspicue longioribus recedit. 



Fritter scandens, praeter flores glaber. Caulcs costati. Folia trifoliolata, 

 satis longe petiolata ; foliola petiolulata, ovata, apice acuta vel acuminata, 

 basi cordata ad rotundata, 5-10 cm. longa, 3-5 cm. lata, integerrima, 

 tenuiter coriacea, glabra, trinervia ; petiolus in basin valde ampliatus, 

 applanatus. Inflorescentiae axillares, basi eperulatae, in planta nostra 

 trirlorae ; bracteae lanceolatae, acutae, 3-4 mm. longae ; pedicelli 2—4 

 cm. longi, laterales basi vel inferne bracteolati. Sepala 4, patentia, 

 lanceolata, extra viridia margine albo-pubescente, intus alba, l'5-2 cm. 

 longa, 4-5 mm. lata. Stamina numerosa ; filamenta glabra, exteriora 

 quam antherae longiora, interiora quam antherae breviora ; antherae 

 oblongo-lineares, lateraliter dehiscentes connectivo in cuspidem producto. 

 Pistilla pluria, circiter 8 mm. longa ; ovarium pilosum, stylus in sicco 

 fulvo-plumosus. — T. A. Sprague. 



The Clematis which forms the subject of our illustration 

 occurs throughout a very extensive area in Central China, 

 and is met with in all the provinces from Szechuan to 

 Chekiang and Fokien. It may be regarded as the 

 representative in this region of C. Meyeniana, Walp., 

 figured at t. 7897 of this work, which, it would appear, 

 is probably confined to southern China. From that 

 species C. Pavoliniana is readily distinguished by its 

 3-flowered or racemosely 5-7-flowered inflorescence and 

 by its considerably larger sepals. From C. uncinata, 

 Champ., a form of which species was recently figured at 

 t. 8633 of this work, the pilose ovary at once separates 

 the present plant. The example from which the material 

 for our plate of C. Pavoliniana has been derived was 

 raised at Kew from seed collected by Mr. E. H. Wilson 

 in the neighbourhood of Ichang, in western Hupeh, where 

 the species is said to be abundant in glens and ravines. 

 This seed was received at Kew from the Arnold Arboretum 



' April, 1916. 



