Tas. 8587. 
CLEMATIS ARrMANDI. 
China. 
RANUNCULACEAE. Tribe CLEMATIDEAE. 
Cuematis, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 3. 
Clematis Armandi, Franch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, sér. 2, 
vol. viii. p. 184, t. 2; Finet & Gagnep. Contrib. Fl. As. Or. vol. i. p. 11; 
J. H. Veitch in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. vol. xxviii. p. 58, fig. 14; Gard. 
Chron. 1905, vol. xxxviii. p. 30; Rehder & Wilson in Sargent, Pl. Wilson. 
vol. i. p. 826; affinis C. Meyenianae, Walp., a qua inflorescentiis basi 
perulatis distinguitur. 
Frutex alte scandens. Rami teretes, costulati, glabri. Folia trifoliolata, 
petiolata; petioli 6-8 cm. longi; petioluli laterales 1°5-2 cm. longi, 
terminale circiter 8 em. longum; foliola ovato-lanceolata, basi leviter 
cordata vel rotundata, apice subacuta, plerumque breviter acuminata, 
9-11 cm. longa, 3°5-4°5 em. lata, integra, 5-nervia, nervis intermediis 
censpicuis ad apicem currentibus, exterioribus inconspicuis cum nervis 
transversis anastomosantibus, reticulata, glabra. Cymae axillares, 
bracteatae, pluriflorae, basi perulatae, e basi ramosae, puberulae; perulae 
magnae, ovatae; bracteae inferiores perulis similes, superiores oblongae, 
saepe trifidae ; pedicelli floribus longiores. Flores albi, odorati. Sepala 
5-7, obovato-oblonga, 2-2°5 cm. longa, patentia. Filamenta applanata, 
glabra, exteriora antheris longiora, interiora antheris breviora; antherae 
anguste oblongae, 3-3°5 mm. longae. Styli parte superiore excepta 
sericeo-plumosi. Achaenia elliptica, compressa, hirsuta, stylo patenter 
plumoso.—C. hedysarifolia, var. Armandi, Kuntze in Verh. Bot. Ver. 
Brandenburg, vol. xxvi. p. 152.—T. A. SPRAGUE. 
The fine Clematis which forms the subject of our illus- 
tration is a very distinct and beautiful addition to that 
scarce group in our gardens, the hardy evergreen climbers. 
It is equal in beauty to C. indivisa, Willd., a form of 
which was figured at t. 4398 of this work, and has the 
advantage of being rather hardier than that New Zea- 
land. plant, which can only be grown out of doors in the 
south-west of England and Ireland. C. Armandi is a 
tall climber which occurs in thickets and on trees and 
bushes at various altitudes up to 5,500 feet above sea- 
level, from Hupeh in Central China to Szechuan and 
Yunnan. It was introduced to European cultivation 
by Mr. E. H. Wilson and is one of the finest species of 
Clematis obtained by that traveller. It is met with in 
gardens in two forms; one with sepals only half the 
DrcEMBER, 1914, 
