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Chili: Hsiao wu tai shan, alt. 2000-2600 m., F. N. Meyer, no. 1316, 

 August 23, 1913; without precise locality, Plre Chanet, nos. 41, 46, and 95, 

 1918 and 1919. — See also Franchet, 1. c, Hemsley, 1. c, Pritzel, 1. c, 

 Finet & Gagnepain, 1. c, and Limpricht, 1. c. 



Shansi: Wu chai hsien, Ta nan kow, alt. 2000-3000 m., Tchuang Kieh, 

 Hers no. 2027, September 7, 1922. — See also Maximowicz, 1. c, and Pritzel, 



1. c. 



Distribution: also Europe through northern Asia to Manchuria and 



Japan. 



As most of the specimens before me are in fruit I am not able to dis- 

 tinguish between the type and var. chinensis Maxim. 



Clematis macropetala Ledebour, Icon. PL Fl. Ross. 5, tab. 11 (1829). 

 Hance in Jour. Bot. xni. 130 (1875). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. 



xxiii. 5 (1886). — Diels in Bot. Jahrb. xxxvi. beibl. lxxxii. 40 (1905). 



Atragene macropetala Ledebour, Fl. Alt. n. 367 (1830). — Maximowicz in Bull. 



Acad. Sci. St. P<Hersb. xxn. 224 (1876); in Mel. Biol. ix. 603 (1876). 

 Clematis alpina var. macropetala Maximowicz, Enum. PI. Mongol. 6 (1889); 



in Act. Hort. Petrop. xi. 10 (1890). — Finet & Gagnepain in Jour. Soc. 



Bot. France, l. 552 (1903); Contrib. FL As. Or. i. 37 (1905). 



Chili: without precise locality, Fire Chanet, no. 6, 1918. — See also 

 Hance, 1. c, Maximowicz, 1. c. (1876; 1889), Hemsley, 1. c, and Finet & 



Gagnepain. 



Shansi: Wu tai shan, G. N. Potanin (ex Maximowicz, 1. c. [1890]). 



Shensi: Tai pei shan, G. Giraldi, July, 1897; same locality alt. 2600-3000 



m., W. Purdom, no. 417, 1910. — See also Diels, 1. c. 



Kansu: Min chou, alt. 2600-3000 m., W. Purdom, no. 417 a , 1911.— See 



also Maximowicz, 1. c. (1889). 



Distribution: also Dahuria, Mongolia, Manchuria. 



Maximowicz (1. c. [1889]) distinguishes of C. alpina var. macropetala 

 two sub varieties: subvar. rvpetris collected in Chili, and subvar. albiflora 

 collected in Kansu. 



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