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Tabula 2808. 



CLEMATOCLETHRA HEMSLEYI, BailL 



Teunstroe.viaceae, Tribus Clkmatoclethreae. 

 C. Hemsleyi, Baill iyi Bull Soc, Linn, Par. i. (1890), p. 873; 



a speciebus omnibus hactenus descriptis, pedunculis multifloris, i,e, 

 plus quam trifloris, differt, 



^ Frulex alte scandens, novellis tomentellis, Emni recti, cito 

 glabrescentes, cortice crebre lenticellato. Folia longe graciliterque 

 petiolata, papyracea, ovata, acuminataj absque petiolo 5-10 cm. 

 longa, basi rotundata vel leviter cordata^ subtiliter calloso-deuticulata, 

 subtus praecipue secus costara eb venas primarias rufo-pubescentia ; 

 potioli 4-8 cm, longi. Pedunculi graciles, 6-12-flori, petiolis saepius 

 breviores, rufopuberuli ; pedicelli quam floras vix longioves. Sepala 5, 

 basi connuta, imbricata, ovali-oblonga, cii-citer 4 mm. longa, cilioJata, 

 fructu pprsisteutia. Petala 5, ovali-rotundata, concava, cit'citer 8 mm. 

 longa. Stamina 10, inclusa. Ovarium 5-loculare, loculis multiovu- 

 latis, glabrum, stylo filiformi exserto. Fructus globosus, circiter 1 cm. 

 Qiametro, carnosus, carne tenui, niger, quinquangularis. S^mina in 

 quovis loculo solitaria, oblique ovalia, compressa ; testa cart ilaginea, 

 striatula ; embryo parvus, axilis. — C. tomentella^ Franch. in Journ. 



de Bot, vol. viii. (1891), p. 280. 



China : Hupeh ; Fang, A. Henry, 6818, 6885. 



Baillon's remarks, in the place where he first described C. Hemsleyi^ 

 are calculated to cause confusion. In Forbes and Hemsley's * Enume- 

 ration of Chinese Plants' {Journ. Linn. Sac. vol. xxvL, p. 34; I 

 included a species of this genus, collected by Faber on Mount Omei, 

 without giving it a name j I mentioned its affinity to C scandens, 

 Franch., and pointed out its similarity to Actinidia. This species 

 ^vas subsequently described by Franchet (in op. step. ciV., p, 279) as 

 C. FaberL Referring to the paper by Maximowicz {Act, Hart. 

 Petrop^ xi. p. 36), Baillon says: Me ne connais point ses trois 

 autres especes. Mais celle de MM, Herasley et Forbes, de la 

 province de Hupeh, n*est pas non plus Tesp^ce de M. Franchet. 

 Ce sera notro G. Ilamhyi' Baillon c^escribed specimens collected 

 by Dr. Henry which reached the Kew Herbarium after the publica- 

 tion of the part of the * Enumeration of Chinese Plants ' cited above, 

 and then confounded them with FaberV 



