268 ITO ET MATSUMURA : 



EANUNCULACEiE. 

 Clematis, L. 



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

 Eiuim. Pl. Jap. I, p. 2; Maxim. in Mel. Biol. IX (1877) 

 p. 5S5. 



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

 in Yerhandl. Bot. Yer. Brandenb. XXVI (1885) p. 148. 

 Insula Amami-Oshima {Tashirol Sept. 1887, flor. et 

 fructif.). 



IxsuLA Utchina : in tractu Kundjan {Tashiro ! Aug. 

 1887, flor.). 



Archipelago Ye:\[A (Tashiro ! Aug. et Sept. 1887, flor.). 

 DiSTRiB. Japan. 

 Scandent, slightly pubescent. Leaves ternate or biternate, 

 leaflets small, ovate or hinceolate, 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, w^ith 2 small oppositc ovatc 

 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 reticuhated veins ; inside 

 smootli, pubesccnt on the back. Stamens purplc, smooth, shorter 

 than tlie sepals, thc filaments of the outer ones dihitcd, anthers 

 smull, linear, obtuse. Achcnes numerous, furnished with long 



hairs. 



