364 CLEMATIS 



flower characteristic only of the Atragene group. C. montana is a valuable 

 plant for covering arbours, pergolas, and especially verandas, where its long 

 shoots can be allowed to hang down and form a sort of curtain. 



Var. RUBENS, Kuntze. A Chinese variety introduced for Messrs Veitch by 

 Wilson in 1900. It is very distinct, the foliage being similar in size and form 

 to the type, but more downy and purplish, although not so markedly purple as 

 the leaf-stalks and young stems. The flowers appear in June, rather later than 

 those of the type, and are of a beautiful rosy red. The sepals are i^ ins.Jong, 

 in. wide ; flower-stalks hairy. This variety is probably the most bea'utiful 

 and useful climber distributed in the twentieth century. It is hardier than the 

 type and flowers with greater regularity. Easily increased by cuttings. 



Var. WlLSONi, Sprague (Bot. Mag., t. 8365). This variety has larger 

 white flowers on downy stalks, 3 ins. in diameter, and they appear in July and 

 August. This habit of late flowering adds to its value. Native of Central 

 China ; introduced by Wilson. It is sometimes wrongly named " C. repens " 

 in gardens. 



C. ORIENTALIS, Linnceus. 



(C. graveolens, Lindley ; Bot. Mag., 4495.) 



A deciduous climber, growing 10 to 20 ft. high ; young stems ribbed and 

 not downy. Leaves 6 to 8 ins. long, pinnately divided, the primary divisions 

 usually trifoliolate ; leaflets with slender stalks I to 2 ins. long, dull glaucous 

 green, ovate or lanceolate, \ to i\ ins. long, usually angularly toothed or 

 deeply lobed, but sometimes entire, quite smooth. Flowers yellow, slightly 

 fragrant, i to 2 ins. across, produced during August and September singly 

 on slender stalks 2 to 4 ins. long (lengthening in fruit) ; sepals ovate, pointed, 

 downy on the inside. Seed-vessel with slender, feathered styles i^ ins. long, 

 the whole forming "a handsome globular tuft over 3 ins. across. In a wild 

 state this Clematis extends from the Caucasus and Persia to the Himalaya, 

 N. China, and Manchuria ; it accordingly varies considerably in minor points. 

 The plant usually known as graveolens is a less glaucous form, the leaves 

 slightly downy, the leaflets mostly larger. C. orientalis was introduced in 



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Nearly allied to C. orientalis is C. GLAUCA, Willdenow, of which there 

 is in cultivation the var. AKEBIOIDES, Rehder (C. orientalis var. akebioides, 

 Maximoivicz). This has flowers i-^ to if ins. diameter, deep orange yellow. 

 A handsome Chinese form introduced for Messrs Veitch by Wilson, which 

 flowers late into October, and is more vigorous than the type. Both differ 

 from C. orientalis in having the sepals downy on the margins only. 



C. PANICULATA, Tkunberg. 



A very vigorous climber, growing 30 ft. or more high, and forming a thick 

 tangle ; young stems slightly downy. Leaves composed of three or (usually) 

 five leaflets, which are dark green on both sides, heart-shaped or ovate, i to 3 

 ins. long, not lobed or toothed, nearly or quite smooth, and comparatively 

 long-stalked. The blades of the largest leaflets resemble in form and colour 

 the leaves of the common lilac. Flowers scented like hawthorn, I in. or more 

 across, produced during September and October in forked panicles, 3 to 4 ins. 

 long, from the axils of the current year's growth. Sepals four, white, oblong. 

 Seed-vessels with grey feathered styles i to i^ ins. long, rarely seen in Britain. 



Native of Japan ; discovered and named by Thunberg, who lived in that 

 country in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. It has never been largely 

 planted in the British Isles, for, although hardy and vigorous enough, it rarely 

 flowers with freedom, and usually too late in the season to develop well. In 

 the eastern United States, on the other hand, it is one of the most beautiful and 

 wonderful of climbing plants, producing its pure white flowers in marvellous 



