354 CLEMATIS 



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C. ACUTANGULA, Hooker fit. 



A deciduous, climbing shrub, 12 to 15 ft. high, perhaps more, with slender 

 stems sharply angled, and very viscid when young ; reddish purple. Leaves 

 doubly pinnate, 6 to 9 ins. long ; the primary divisions are three-foliolate, or, 

 in the case of the lower ones, often five-foliolate ; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, 

 I to 2 ins. long, coarsely toothed or two- or three-lobed, smooth and shining on 

 both surfaces, and of a purplish tint ; leaf-stalks ribbed, the bases of each pair 

 flattened, expanded, and surrounding the stem. Racemes i. to 3 ins. long, 

 furnished with usually five flower-buds, the terminal one of which opens first, 

 and is often the only one to open. Flower, bell-shaped, i in. wide, f in. long ; 

 sepals four, lilac-coloured, narrowly ovate, but much curled back at the 

 points, which are downy. Stamens and styles clothed with silky down. 



Native of the Himalaya and China ; introduced from the latter by Wilson 

 for Messrs Veitch about 1903. The only plant I have seen, and the one from 

 which this description was made, is in the Coombe Wood nursery, where it is 

 a luxuriant grower and quite hardy, flowering in autumn. 



C. ^ETHUSIFOLIA, Turczaninow. 



A deciduous climber, growing 5 or 6 ft. high ; stems slender, slightly ribbed, 

 downy when quite young. Leaves 3 to 8 ins. long, pinnately divided into 

 three, five, or seven segments, which are themselves either deeply lobed or 

 trifoliolate ; the ultimate subdivisions varying from linear to obovate or oblong, 

 \ to i j ins. long, coarsely and unequally toothed, downy. Flowers nodding, 

 produced in August and September on erect, slender stalks i to 2 ins. long, 

 which come either singly from the joints of the stem, or three or five together 

 at the end of short axillary branches, the whole terminal part of the shoot 

 being transformed into a leafy panicle. Each flower is pale yellow, narrowly 

 bell-shaped, ^ to f in. long ; the sepals narrow oblong. Seed-vessels with 

 white feathery styles $ in. long. 



Native of N. China and Manchuria ; introduced to Kew by way of 

 St Petersburg about 1875. Although one of the smaller climbing clematises, 

 it is a free grower, and forms a dense tangle of its slender stems. The finely 

 divided foliage is very elegant. It blossoms in great profusion, the whole 

 plant being covered with the little pendent bells, which, although not highly 

 coloured, are pretty and graceful. 



Var. LATISECTA, Maximowicz, is a form with leaf-divisions of the broader 

 shape given above. (Bot. Mag., t. 6542.) 



C. ALPINA, Miller. 



(Atragene alpina, Linnceus, Bot. Mag., t. 530 



A deciduous climber, 6 to 8 ft. high, with smooth, slightly ribbed stems, 

 often much enlarged at the joints, through an agglomeration of buds there. 

 Leaves 3 to 6 ins. long, doubly ternate, being composed of nine leaflets arranged 

 in three triplets ; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, scarcely stalked, coarsely toothed, 

 i to 2 ins. long, one-third as wide, downy at the base. Flowers solitary, on 

 stalks 3 to 4 ins. long, nodding, produced along with the young leaves in April 

 and May. Sepals four, blue of various shades, i to i\ ins. long, \ to ^ in. 

 wide, oHong ; petals small, spoon-shaped, half as long "as the sepals. Seed- 

 vessels terminated by a silky style ij to \\ ins. long, the whole forming a 

 globular grey tuft, 2 ins. or more across. 



Native of N. Europe and N. Asia, also of the mountains of Central and 

 S. Europe ; introduced in 1792. It belongs to that section of the genus once 

 kept separate as "Atragene," because of the petal-like organs that come 



