HORTUS VEITCHII 



CHAM^BATIA FOLIOLOSA, Benth. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5171 ; Gard. Chron. 1859, p. 652, Bentham in Plantae Hartwegianae, 



p. 308. 



A half-hardy shrub with flowers resembling those of a Potentilla, and 

 finely-dissected foliage not unlike that of some species of Milfoil (Achillea). 

 The shrub grows to a height of 2 or 3 ft., and has an agreeable balsamic 

 odour. 



The branches, when mature, are covered with smooth reddish-brown 

 bark ; when young, densely clothed with gland-tipped hairs. 



It was introduced to Exeter in a living state from California through 

 William Lobb in 1859. 



CLEMATIS GOUEIANA, Roxb. 



A species introduced to cultivation through Wilson, who sent seed 

 from Hupeh in 1901. 



The plant, a hardy climber, has compound leaves composed of five 

 petioled leaflets, irregularly serrate along the margin towards the apex ; 

 the petioles and young wood of a reddish-purple. 



The flowers, produced in September, individually small, cream-white in 

 colour, are showy from a great profusion, and are also very fragrant. 



CLEMATIS MONTANA, Wall., var. GBANDIFLOKA. 



Bot. Mag. fc. 4061. 



Both this variety and the type, natives of Northern India, are worthy of 

 a place in every garden on account of the profusion of large, white, 

 delicately fragrant flowers usually produced in early summer and in the 

 autumn months. 



The variety grandiflora flowered for the first time at Exeter in 1844. 



CLEMATIS MONTANA, Wall, var. EUBENS, 0. Kuntze. 



Flora and Sylva, 1905, vol. iii. p. 252, col. pi. 



A magnificent form of the well-known type introduced to Coombe 

 Wood from the Province of Hupeh, Central China, where it occurs on 

 scrub-clad mountain- sides at elevations of 5,000-9,000 ft. 



In foliage and habit this form closely resembles the typical species, but 

 the stems and leaf -stalks are of a reddish-purple hue, as are the young 

 leaves. 



The rosy- red flowers differ in a marked degree from those of the type, 

 are as large as those of the variety grandiflora, and are also produced twice 

 during a season, in early May and in September. 



Plants flowered for the first time at Coombe Wood in September 1903. 



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