CLEMATIS 361 



C. JACK MAN I, T. Moore. 



In 1860, some young plants were raised in the nursery of Messrs Jaclcman 

 at Woking, Irom seed which was said to have been obtained by crossing 

 C. Hendersonii and C. lanuginosa. They flowered in 1862, were named after 

 their raisers, and were the first of the fine race of garden varieties of Clematis 

 everywhere known to-day as the Jackmani group. They are probably more 

 grown now than any others. C. Jackmani has flowers 4 to 5 ins. across, 

 composed normally of four sepals of a rich velvety violet-purple. In the later- 

 raised varieties of this group some of the flowers have six sepals, and are 6 ins. 

 or even more across. They commence to flower in July, and are still gay in 

 October if the weather remain open and sunny. They may be pruned to 

 within a foot of the older stems each spring, being vigorous growers, and flower- 

 ing on the shoots of the current year. 



C. JOUINIANA, C. K. Schneider. 



(C. grata, of many gardens, but not of Wallich.") 



A very vigorous, deciduous climber, about 10 ft. high, stems strongly ribbed 

 and slightly downy. Leaves composed of three or five leaflets, which are more 

 or less intermediate between those of C. Vitalba and Davidiana. Flowers in 

 corymbs 4 to 6 ins. long, springing from the leaf-axils towards the end of the 

 shoot, the whole forming a large panicle I to 2 ft. long. Sepals four, strap- 

 shaped, pointed, f in. long ; at first yellowish white, finally suffused with lilac ; 

 half to fully expanded, but little recurved. (Fig. p. 362.) 



A hybrid between C. Vitalba and C. Davidiana, which is widely spread in 

 gardens under the erroneous name of " C. grata." It is a quick-growing plant 

 with perennial stems, and it flowers with great freedom from August to October. 

 Very suitable for covering old tree-stumps or mounds. It is named after Mr 

 E. Jouin, the well-known manager of the Simon-Louis nurseries at Metz. 



The true C. GRATA, Wallich, is a climber allied to C. Vitalba, native of the 

 Himalaya and China. Leaves pinnate, made up of five leaflets, which are 

 broadly ovate, long-pointed, deeply toothed, often three-lobed, dowrly beneath. 

 Flowers yellowish white, f in. across. It is not in general cultivation, but 

 plants of Chinese origin are in the Coombe Wood nursery. 



C. LANUGINOSA, Lindley. 



A deciduous climber, said to be only 6 ft. high in nature, but half as high 

 again as represented by cultivated varieties. Leaves either simple or 

 composed of three leaflets, which are heart-shaped at the base, pointed 

 at the apex, up to 5 ins. long by 3 ins. wide, of thick texture, covered beneath 

 with a thick, soft, 1 grey wool, smooth above ; stalks 3 to 6 ins. long, downy. 

 Flowers 4 to 6 ins. across, produced at the end of the shoots on woolly stalks 

 which have no bracts. Sepals normally six, but often seven or eight ; oval 

 or obovate, overlapping and fully expanded ; very downy behind, varying 

 in cultivated varieties from white to pale lilac. Seed-vessels with long 

 silky tails. 



This Clematis was originally introduced to cultivation by Robt. Fortune, 

 who found 't near Ningpo, China, in 1850. It is the type of a very important 

 and showy group of cultivated varieties, and, although allied in a botanical 

 sense to C. patens and C. florida, is amply distinct in the dwarfer habit, 

 larger flowers, and the very woolly, often simple leaves and woolly flower-stalks. 

 Many of the varieties have flowers 8 ins. across, some close on 12 ins. 

 By cross-breeding, the distinctions between the various groups of course 

 tend to disappear, and many so-called lanuginosa forms have deep purple 



