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ENUMERATION OF SPECIES. 
DICOTYLEDONES POLYPETALÆ. (By Professor OLIVER.) 
RANUNCULACEÆ. 
1. CLEMATIS CHRYSOCARPA, Welw.; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 5. Саше erecto, subsim- 
plici; foliis ssepius 3-foliolatis, foliolo terminali lineari-oblongo v. obovato 3-lobato v. 
crenato-inciso, subtus sericeis tomentosisve; floribus majusculis terminalibus solitariis, 
sepalis 4-6 late oblongis v. ovatis sericeo-tomentosis, filamentis anthera longioribus, 
acheniis elongato-plumoso-caudatis. 
Caulis 1-2-pedalis, simplex v. basi parce ramosus, ramis elongatis adscendentibus, sulcatus, tenuiter 
hispido-pilosus v. glabrescens. Folia radicalia desunt; caulina trifoliolata v. rarius unifoliolata, supra 
. adpresse pilosa v. strigilloso-pilosa, subtus tomentosa v. sericea; foliolo terminali petiolulato, 1—2 poll. 
longo, obovato ovato v. ovali-oblongo, inciso-dentato v. trilobato, lobulis late crenato-incisis, lobulis denti- 
. busve mucronulatis, foliolis lateralibus sessilibus minoribus obliquis; petiolus j-3 poll. longus, petiolulo 
folioli terminalis 2-2 poll. longo. Flores 12-42 poll. diametro, albi; pedunculi 1-6 poll. longi. 
Sepala 4—6, late oblonga v. ovato-elliptica subacuminata, dorso adpresse sericeo-pilosa, marginibus æstiva- 
tione inflexis latiusculis tomentosis, intus molliter piloso-tomentosis. Stamina indefinita ; filamentis 
complanatis, linearibus, apicem versus attenuatis, ciliatis; anthera filamento breviore, lineari, mutica. 
Achenia tomentoso-pilosa, caudata, cauda recurva 1-2 poll. longa plumoso-pilosa. 
Нар. 21? 8. lat., common in waste ground, Col. Grant ! 
А broad-leaved form of the species, which occurs also in Angola. Specimens with narrow leaflets, 
however, we have from the Upper Nile, presented to the Kew Herbarium by Consul Petherick. It is a 
near ally of Clematis trifida, Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 79, a native of Madagascar. 
Plate I. fig. 1. Stamens; fig. 2. Carpels. 
2. CLEMATIS THUNBERGII, Steud. ; Harv. Fl. Cap. i. 2; Thes. Cap. t. viii. ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. 
Afr. i. 6. 
Hab. Woods of Madi, 3° 15' N. lat. (No. 564), and forest of Ukidi, Col. Grant! 
Widely spread in Africa, occurring in Senegambia, Angola, and at the Cape of Good 
Hope. 
This is very nearly (perhaps too nearly) allied to Clematis brachiata, Thunb., another Cape species— 
the character which the late Dr. Harvey mainly relied upon as distinguishing them being the apiculate’ 
buds of our plant, those of C. brachiata being * very obtuse." 
[Climbs up the trees in the Uganda and Ukidi forests by its petioles. "The flowers are richly scented ; 
and our men from Heeao state that its dried leaves and flowers are taken as snuff, to induce bleeding from 
the nose.—J. А. GI 
3. CLEMATIS GRATA, Wall. Pl. As. Rar. t. 98.—0. inciso-dentata, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 
1,9, C. Petersiana, Klotzsch in Peters, Mossamb. Bot. uM C. viridiflora, Bertol. Misc. 
Bot. xix. 7, t. i.s Ойу; Fl, Trop. Afr. i. 7. 
Hab. Forests of Uganda, 17 Aug. 1862, Col. Grant ! Occurs also in Abyssinia, in 
Angola and on the Zambesi—extending eastward, by the Himalaya, to China. 
[Climbs up the forest-trees; flowers in rich white clusters ; used, like C. Thunbergii, in cases of head- 
_ ache.—J. А. G.] 
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