356 CLEMATIS 



C. CALYCINA, Aiton. FERN-LEAVED CLEMATIS. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 959 ; C. balearica, Richard.') 



An evergreen, climbing shrub, 10 to 15 ft. high in this country ; young stems 

 dark brown, furnished with silky hairs, angular. Leaves finely divided, and 

 somewhat fern-like, the larger ones deeply and doubly lobed, the smaller ones 

 simply three- or five-lobed ; they are \\ to 3 ins. long, the ultimate subdivisions 

 linear and pointed. In summer the foliage is dark green, in winter it becomes 

 bronzy purple. Flowers l4 to 2 ins. across, produced from September to 

 March, solitary on stalks I in. or less long. Sepals four, very downy outside, 

 oval-oblong, yellowish white, stained inside with narrow, irregular, reddish 

 purple spots. Beneath the sepals, and separated from them by a short hairy 

 part of the stalk, is a cup-shaped organ known as the involucre. This organ 

 distinguishes this species and its near ally, C. cirrhosa, from all other hardy 

 species. 



Native of Minorca, Corsica, etc. ; introduced to Kew by way of Paris, in 

 1783. It is not so hardy as C. cirrhosa, but has lived out-of-doors at Kew 

 merely trained up tree branches, flowering through the winter whenever the 

 weather was mild. I have not seen it in England in better condition than 

 at Shrublands. On account of its blossoming in midwinter, and the beauty of 

 its finely cut foliage at that season, it is well worth a sunny, sheltered spot, 

 although the flowers are not showy. 



C. CAMPANIFLORA, Brotero. 



A deciduous climber, growing 10 to 20 ft. high, very vigorous ; stems 

 slender, slightly downy when young. Leaves composed normally of fifteen or 

 twenty-one leaflets (that is, five or seven sets of three each), but irregular. 

 Leaflets not toothed, but sometimes lobed, variable in shape, narrow-lanceo- 

 late, ovate and oval ; up to 3 ins. long, ultimately smooth. Flowers solitary 

 or several together at the end of a downy stalk 2 or 3 ins. long, nodding, 

 produced in July and August. Sepals four, woolly, oblong, pointed with the 

 points recurved, f in. long, half expanded ; white tinged with violet. Seed- 

 vessels roundish ovate, terminated by a slightly downy style less than \ in. long. 



Native of Portugal ; introduced in 1810. A hardy species, very thriving in 

 cultivation. The flowers are scarcely bell-shaped, as implied by the name, 

 but rather bowl-shaped. The species is an ally of C. Viticella. 



C. CHRYSOCOMA, Franchet. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 8395.) 



A deciduous, semi-woody shrub, 6 to 8 ft., perhaps more, high ; young stems, 

 leaves, leaf-stalks, and flower-stalks covered with a dense, brownish yellow, 

 shaggy down. Leaves trifoliolate ; leaflets varying in shape from broadly ovate 

 or rhomboidal to narrowly obovate ; \ to if ins. long, often as much wide, 

 usually three-lobed, but sometimes merely coarsely and irregularly toothed. 

 The two side leaflets are much smaller than (usually about half the size of) the 

 terminal one. Common stalk i to 2 ins. long, that of the terminal leaflet \ to 

 in. long ; the side leaflets are stalkless. Flowers white, tinged with pink, 

 if ins. diameter, produced singly on stalks i to 3 ins. long, which spring from 

 the joints of the previous year's wood. Sepals four, broadly oblong, with a 

 short, abrupt point ; stamens not downy, forming a cluster i in. across. Seed- 

 vessels terminated by a style f to i ins. long, plumed with brownish golden 

 hairs. 



Native of Yunnan, China; discovered by L'Abbe Delavay in 1884 ; intro- 



