I CLE r MATIS. 



7. Cl&natis grata. 



1 6. C. GRA'TA Wall. The grateful-scented Clematis. 



Identification. Wall. Asiat., 1. t.98. 

 Synonymes. C. odorata Hort. ; C. tri- 



ternata Hort.', C.nepalensis Hort, 

 Engravings. Wall. Asiat. , l.t. 98.; and 



our fig. 7. 



Spec. Char., tyc. Flowers axil- 

 lary, panicled j leaves subbi- 

 ternate, villous ; leaflets cor- 

 date, acuminated, serrated, 

 3-lobed; sepals obtuse. (G. 

 Don.) A deciduous climber. 

 Nepal, on mountains. Height 

 10ft. to 18 ft. Introduced in 

 1831. Flowers white. 



Closely resembling C. vir- 

 giniana, but rather more hoary; 

 and equally hardy, though it 

 has not yet flowered freely in 

 the open air. A shoot intro- 

 duced into the inside of a stove 

 in the Chelsea Botanic Gar- 

 den, from a plant on the out- 

 side, flowered there in 1833. 

 Frequent in nurseries as C. 

 nepalensis. 



-i 7. C. VIO'RNA L. The road-ornamenting Clematis, or leathery-flowered 



Virgin's Bower. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 765. ; Dec. Prod., 1 . p. 7. : Don's Mill., 1 . p. 8. ; Tor. and Gray, 1 . p. 9. 

 Synonymes. C. purpurea repens Ray ; Fl&mmula scandens, flore violaceo clause, Dill. Elth. ; 



American Traveller's Joy ; the Virginian Climber ; the purple Climber ; Clematite Viorne, Fr. \ 



Glockenbliithige Waldrebe, Ger. 

 Derivation. From via, a way, and ornare, to ornament. Leather-flowered Virgin's Bower refers 



to the remarkably thick texture of the sepals ; the German name signifies bell-flowered woodvine. 

 Engravings. Dill." Elth., 118. f. 144 ; and our fig. 9. 



Spec. Char., $c. Peduncles 1-flowered. Sepals connivent, thick, acuminated, 

 reflexed at the apex. Leaves smooth, pinnate ; leaflets entire, 3-lobed, alter- 

 nate, ovate, acute, floral ones entire. (Don's Mill.) A deciduous climber. 

 Pennsylvania to Georgia. Height 6 ft. to 12 ft. Introduced in 1730. Flowers 

 purple without, whitish within; June to August. Fruit white ; ripe in Sep- 

 tember. Decaying leaves retained long, and dying, 

 off black. 



Variety. C. V. 2 cor data. C. cordata Sims Sot. Mag. 

 t. 1816., and our fig. 9. from that plate; Clem. 

 Simsw Sweet's Hort. Brit. 



This species is striking in the dissimilarity of its 

 flowers to those of most other species. It is of vigor- 

 ous growth, and, exclusive of its flowers, assimilates 

 to C. Viticella; but its stems and branches are less 

 decidedly ligneous. The stems are numerous, slender, 

 and round; the peduncles of the flower are long, 

 deflexed towards the tip, rendering the flowers pen- 

 dulous ; the sepals never open, except at their ex- 

 treme ends, which are bent back, giving the whole 

 flower a bell shape, but with the mouth of the bell 

 narrower than the body. The sepals are of a greenish purple or reddish 

 lilac on the outside, and of a very 'pale green within. The stamens scarcely 

 emerge from the sepals. The carpels are broad and flat ; as they ripen, the 

 tail becomes bent in and plumose, and of a brownish green colour. It 



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Clematis Vidrna cordaU. 



