THE FLORA OF THE NILGIRI 

 AND PULNEY HILL-TOPS. 



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RANUNCULACE/E. 



CLEMATIS. 



See Vol. I p. I. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Flowers J4 inch, numerous C. gouriana. 



Flowers over i inch, few, filaments of stamens glabrous . b 

 Flowers over i inch, filaments hairy (Vol. II t. i) . . 



C. wightiana. 

 ' Sepals glabrous at length inside, connective of stamens 

 much produced beyond the anthers (Vol. I p. 3) . 



C. munroana. 

 Sepals tomentose inside when mature, filaments produced 



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Clematis gouriana Roxb. ; F.B.I, i 4, I 9. Glabrous 

 or nearly so. Leaves pinnate or bi-pinnate, of three or 

 more leaflets. Leaflets ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 usually entire but sometimes toothed, glabrous, glossy or 

 not on the upperside, with 3 or 5 main basal nerves and 

 prominently raised recticulate venation on the under. 

 Flowers small, white, in axillary and terminal panicles. 

 Sepals 14^0% inch, pubescent on the outside and slightly 

 so on the inside. Filaments glabrous, not contracted 

 below the anthers. Carpels in fruit with pure white 

 hairy tail at first 54 inch only, lengthening to l^ or 

 2 inches. Wt. Ic. tt. 933, 934. 



Nilgiris : below Coonoor. Fyson 2gg. Bourne i$^2. 



Gen. Dist. Western Himalaya to Ceylon, Java and the Philippines. 

 This species closely resembles C. vitalba, Travellers' Joy of England* 



Clematis thcobromina Dunn ; Kew Bull, 1914, p. 1 81, 

 A tall climbing shrub, glabrous except in the flowery, 



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