268 ITO ET MATSUMURA 



EANUNCÜLAGE^. 

 Clematis, L. 



C. Pierotti, Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 189; Francli. et Sav. 

 Eiium. PL Jap. I, p. 2; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX (1877) 

 p. 585. 



C. parviloha var. Pierotii, O. Kuntze, Monogr. Clematis, 

 in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Braiulenb. XXVI (1885) p. 148. 

 Insula Amami-Oshima {Tashiro ! Sept. 1887, flor. et 

 fructif.). 



Insula Uïchinâ : in tractu Kundjan (Tashiro \ Aug. 

 1887, flor.). 



Archipelago Yêma (Tashiro ! Aug. et Sept. 1887, flor.). 

 DiSTKiB. Japan. 

 Scandent, slightly pubescent. Leaves ternate or biternate, 

 leaflets small, ovate or lanceolate, acute, 3-lobed, or sub-bilobed, 

 or entire, sometimes with a few serratures ; petiole slender, 

 2-5 cm. long. Peduncles very slender, 1-flowered, 1^-4 cm. 

 long, axillary from the base of leaves, or 3-6 flowers clustered 

 near the end of young branches, with 2 small opposite ovate 

 obtuse bracts either near the middle or near the base. Flowers 

 white. Sepals 4, spreading, ovate-lanceolate or linear-elliptical, 

 about 15-20 mm. long, acute, with 3 reticulated veins ; inside 

 smooth, pubescent on the back. Stamens purple, smooth, shorter 

 than the sepals, the filaments of the outer ones dilated, anthers 

 small, linear, obtuse. Achenes numerous, furnished with long 



hairs. 



