2 RANUNCULACE& (Harv.) [ Clematis. 
Climbing, rarely erect, slender, vinelike shrubs, with opposite, mostly decompound 
leaves. Flowers white, purple or blue, solitary or in cymes or panicles. Natives 
of the warmer parts of the N. & S. Temperate Zones. One species is wild in Eng- 
land, and many are cultivated in gardens. The colonial name for the Cape species 
is “ Klimop.” None of the 8. African species have petals, and all have 4 sepals 
and feathery seed-tails. They are confined to the districts east of Swellendam. The 
generic name Clematis is derived from xAnua, the shoot of a vine. 
1. C. Thunbergii (Steud. ;) pubescent, leaves sub-bipinnately 
parted ; pinnz distant, leaflets petiolate, ovate, lanceolate or trifid or 
3 toothed, the segments mucronulate ; panicles shorter than the leaf ; 
jflower buds ovate, acute ; sepals spreading, lanceolate-acuminate ; fila- © 
ments hairy at base ; anthers glabrous, linear. C. triloba, Thunb. Cap. 
jide Eck. & Zey. Enum. No.2. Harv. Thes. t. 8. 
sont) Woods of Adow, Uitenhage, E. & Z. 1. (v. s. in Herb, T.C.D., Hook., 
md. 
A rambling climber, more glabrous than C. brachiata, with less compound leaves, 
and readily known from other Cape species by its lanceolate sepals, and pointed and 
slightly twisted flower buds. 
2. C. brachiata (Thunb. Cap. p. 441. ;) pubescent ; leaves bipin- 
nately or tripinnately parted ; pinne distant, trifoliolate, leaflets petio- 
late, ovate-acuminate, toothed, the teeth mucronulate ; panicles elon- 
gate, spreading ; flower-buds. very obtuse; sepals spreading, elliptical, 
pes fi ger ree flat, hairy at base, anthers linear. DC. Prod. 1. p. 6. 
er. Bot. Mag. t. 96. E. & Z. No. t. Drege, No. 7594, 7595) 759% 7597° 
C. Kerri, Steud. C. Massoniana, DC. Prod. 1. p. 3. : : 
Has. Frequent in the country from Swellendam to Port Natal, EB. § Z./ Burke! 
Drege! Gueinzius/ &e. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook, Sond.) on 
_ Climbing over trees and bushes. The pubescence varies greatly in different spe- 
cimens, and the old leaves are frequently nearly smooth. Flowers in long ter- 
minal or axillary, naked panicles, whose branches spread at right angles with the 
stem. Known from C. Thunbergti by its obtuse buds and sepals; and from C. 
Owenie, besides other marks, by the filaments and anthers. The carpels are gla- 
brescent, orbicular, compressed and margined, with long, feathery tails. 
4 ¢. Stanleyi (Hook. Ie. t. 589); densely albo-tomentose ; leaves 
tripinnately parted, pine: 3-4 pairs, multipartile, the lacinie narrow- 
“near, simple or cloven ; flowering branches paniculate, the panicle 
leafy; peduncles single-flowered, longer than the leaves ; flower-buds 
—— “ sepals eter broadly obovate, obtuse or emarginate. = 
AB. Macallisberg, Burke / Port Natal, Miss Owen (Herb. T.C.D., Hook.) 
_,/* tall, stout, much branched, suberect shrub, thickly clothed in all parts with pale, — 
silly, spreading haire. "Leaves densely ach tad ent Ute center shea Paeles 
