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jial, shorter or longer tliau the leaves, bracteate at the base, bracts trilobed 

 or not lol>ed, linear, smaller, pedicels slender, 2-3-times longer than the 

 f'owers. Flowers nodding, 2 em. in diameter and so long. Sepals 4, connivent, 

 revolute at tin; a]>ex, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, or einargiuate, 23 nun. 

 long, 8 nun. broad, subglabrous on lx)th sides, slightly purple, margin 

 velutinously tomento^e. Stamens 4- seriate the outermost the longest, filaments 

 flattened linear, 17 mm. long, long and densely sericeo-pilo.se 011 the back, 

 anthers 2 nun. long, not appendiculate ou the apex, the innermost the 

 shortest filament* mm. long, anthers longer 3 mm. long. Pistils 8 mm. long 

 sericeo-plumoso-caudate. lleceptacles (fruiting) erect, glolio.se, 4 mm. in diameter, 

 pilose ; carpels i when matuied) numerous ovately-lauceolate, acuminate, com- 

 pressed, 3 mm. long, marginate, rubeseeut, pilose, long plumously caudate, 

 tails 3.1- cm. long. 



HAD. Shukoran. 



DiSTitiu. Type : Kiushiu. Southern parts of Japan. 



The present variety differs from the type in having many-flowered 

 peduncles ; this never lias uui-flowered peduncles as the type. 



4. Clematis Morii HAYATA d'l. I.) Flora Montana Forn:os;e p. 42. 

 Stem ligneous, scandent, glabrous, striate. Leave- opposite or quaternate, tri- 

 foliolate, nearly 15 cm. long (including petioles, petioles voluble), sub- 

 coriaceous, glaucescent Ijeiieath, exstipulate, terminal foliole potiolulate, long 

 caudately acuminate obscurely lobate, rounded at the base, margin subentire 

 or remotely mucronateh' serrulate, veins beneath prominent, but impressed 

 alnjve, veinlets somewhat prominent, 5-nerved, 11 cm. long 3^- cm. broad, 

 petioluleS 1 cm. long, lateral leaflet^ much s holier often elobate caudately 

 ovate remotely mucronately- serrulate, pstiolulate, petiolules 3 mm. long or 

 subsessile. Flowers larger, Holding, half-closed, 1.1 cm. in diameter, and in 

 length, axillary solitary pedicellate, 2-bracteato at tlie base of pedicels, bracts 

 minute pubescent, pedicels 3 cm. long, pubescent. Sepals 4, broader, 1.8 

 cm. long, 9 mm. broad, ovate mucronately acute, dark-purple inside, 

 velutinously pilo.se outside, base slightly cordate, veinlets parallel, half-dosed, 

 never opaned. Stamens 3-4-seriate, the outermost the longest, filaments 



