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mil, shorter or longer than the leaves, bracteate at the base, bracts trilobed 

 or not lobed, linear, smaller, pedicels slender, 2-3-times longer than the 

 flowers. Flowers nodding, 2 cm. in diameter and H> long. Sepals 4, connivent, 

 revolnte at the apex, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, or emarginate, 23 nun. 

 long, 8 mm. broad, subglabrous on both siles, slightly purple, margin 

 velutinously tomentose. Stamens 4- seriate, the outermost the longest, filaments 

 flattened linear, 17 nun. long, long and densely sericeo -pilose on the back, 

 anthers 2 mm. long, not appendiculate on the apex, the innermost the 

 shortest, filaments 9 mm. long, anthers longer 3 mm. long. Pistils 8 mm. long 

 sericeo-plumoso -caudate, lieceptacles (fruiting) erect, globose, 4 mm. iu diameter, 

 pilose; carpels (when matured) numerous ovately -lanceolate, acuminate, com- 

 pressed, 3 mm. long, marginate, rubesceut, pilose, long plumously caudate, 

 tails 3.1 cm. long. 



HAD. Shiikoran.- 



DiSTi;iJ5. Type : Kiushiu. Southern parts of Japan. 



The present variety differs from the type in having many-fowored 

 peduncles ; this never has uni-flowered peduncles as the typo. 



4, Clematis Morii HAY ATA (I'l. I.) Flora Montana Formosa 1 , p. 42. 

 Stem ligneous, scandent, glabrous, striata. Leaves opposite or quaternate, tri- 

 loliolate, nearly 15 cm. long (including petioles, petioles voluble), sub- 

 coriaceous, giaucesceut beneath, exstipulate, terminal foliole petiolulate, long 

 caudately acuminate obscurely lobate, rounded at the base, margin subentire 

 or remotely nmcronately serrulate, veins beneath prominent, but impressed 

 above, veinlets somewhat prominent, 5-iierved, 11 cm. long 3*1 cm. broad, 

 petiolules 1 cm. long, Literal leaflets much shorter often elobate caudately 

 ovate remotely nmcrouately- serrulate, petiolulate, petiolules 3 mm. long or 

 subsessile. Flowers larger, nolding, half -closed, H cm. in diameter, and in 

 length, axillary solitary pedicellate, 2 -bracteate at the base of pedicels, bracts 

 minute pubescent, pedicels 3 cm. long, pubescent. Sepals 4, broader, 1.8 

 cm. long, 9 mm. brond, ovate mncronately acute, dark-purple inside, 

 velutinously pilose outside, b.ise slightly cordate, veinlets parallel, half-closed, 

 never opanel. Stamens 3-4-seriate, the outermost the longest, filaments 



