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near Limekiln, common along edges of meallie field, 1800 m., 
young fr. 4 May 1909, H. H. W. Pearson 2624. Cunene passage, 
5 ft. high, in open thickets, fl. 12-2-07. Gossweiler 2881.. 
11. Clematopsis Stanleyi, Hutchinson, comb. nov. 
Clematis Stanleyi, Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 589 (1848) ; in in Harv. 
- Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 3 (1859); Watson in Gard. Chron. 1890, ii. 
326; Garden & Forest, 11. 518, fig. 65 (1890); Hook. f. Bot. Mag. 
é. 7166 (1891). . 
Sourn Arrica. Transvaal: aoc naps Dec., Burke (type). 
Springbokolakte, Klipfontein, W. Nelson 275. ‘Wonderfontein 
district, W. Nelson 344. Between Browkhorstapruit and Middel- 
burg, Dec. 1883, P. Wilms 3. Sandy places near Sandfontein, 
1320 m., fr. 14 set il 1894, &#. Soalachior 4784, Fields near 
Doekerhoek, 1560 m., 4 Jan. 1894, R. Schlechter 4133. Kudus- 
poort, Pretoria, A. Rehmann 4661. W onderboompoort, Pre- 
toria, A. Re hmann 4590. Without definite locality ; Sanderson; 
Leyher 3 
TRorrcat Arrica. Rhodesia: Leshumo valley and forest, Jan. 
we Dr. E. Holub. Near Chirinda, 1050 m., Oct. 1907, C. F. 
M. Swynnerton 358. Batoka Plateau, Feb., small shrub 2-3 ft. 
T. Gardner 9. Matabeleland: hills near Selukwe, 13-2 ft. high, 
fls. white, tinted with pink, stamens greenish-y ellow, Nov. an 
Dec. 1899, Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Geet 1105s South African Gold- 
fields, 1870, 7. Baines. Angola: Huilla; near Lopollo, 
Welwitsch 1221 b. 
There is a beautiful figure of this species i Clematis Stanleyi), 
in the Botanical Magazine t. 7166. (1891), and the late Sir 
Joseph Hooker therein. gave some highly interesting notes which 
support our theory on the connection of Clematopsts with Clematis 
and Anemone. Hooker says “* Few genera of plants present such 
remarkable ‘Pei genres in habit and flowers as Clematis, and the 
subject of the present plate shows, perhaps, in this respect the 
greatest departure from the. prevalent characters of its congeners. 
In fact it most resembles an Anemone in foliage woe owers, 
though no species of that genus has so shrubby a ha Mr. 
Watson, indeed, informs me that as grown at Kew the il are 
sometimes alternate, a singular fact, which if confirmed,* would 
leave nothing whereby to distinguish the two genera from one 
another but the valvate petals [ =sepals] of Clematis, these being 
imbricate in Anemone.”’ If the reader turns to this plate in the 
Botanical Magazine, however, he will see at a glance that the 
same plant of which Sir J oseph was speaking has widely imbricate 
sepals. 
The fact that under cultivation Clematopsis pore) may pro- 
duce alternate leaves and thus me almost a e Anemone 1s 
highly significant in pone out its origin Flin the genus 
And none. I say ‘‘almost a true Anemone,”’ for the aestivation 
of the sepals of C. Stanleyi (see diagram no. 3) is very peculiar, 
* Mr. Coutts has shown ~ several pots of 0. Stanleyi at Kew, in many of 
which the leaves are alterna 
