366 CLEMATIS 



velvety outside, glabrous within; stamens about as long as the sepals, thinly 

 hairy their whole length. Seed-vessels orbicular-ovate, downy, terminated by 

 a silky style i in. long. 



Native of W. China; introduced to France, in 1898, by Pere Aubert from 

 near Tatien-lu, thence to Kew in 1904. Wilson introduced it from the same 

 neighbourhood in 1908. It is one of the latest flowering clematises and is 

 worthy of cultivation on that account, also for the sweet fragance of its pretty 

 blossoms. Its naming has been much confused. When first introduced it 

 was called C. Buchaniana by the French; then it was identified with C. nutans. 

 Both these species are Himalayan, and probably not in cultivation. 



C. VEITCHIANA, Craib, hitherto confused with the above under the name 

 " C. nutans," has lately been distinguished by Mr Craib. Its most noticeable 

 distinction is in the leaves being doubly pinnate; the two or three lower 

 primary divisions are usually trifoliolate. The leaflets, in consequence, are 

 smaller and more numerous often over twenty. Another distinction is that 

 the bracts on the inflorescence are very small (\ to % in. long) and awl-shaped, 

 whereas in C. Rehderiana they are much larger (f to f in. long), ovate or oval, 

 sometimes deeply three-lobed. The flowers are rather smaller, but of the 

 same shape and colour. Introduced from W. China by Wilson in 1904. 



C. SONGARICA, Bunge. 



A semi-woody, scarcely climbing plant, 4 or 5 ft. high, with slender, 

 furrowed, not downy stems. Leaves simple, lanceolate to linear ; i^ to 4 ins. 

 long, J to i j ins. wide ; margins either entire or coarsely and angularly 

 toothed, quite smooth, and of a greyish or glaucous green, with three prominent 

 veins ; stalk ^ to i J ins. long. Flowers yellowish white, produced on stalked 

 cymes 3 to 6 ins. long, both axillary and terminal ; each flower is | to i in. 

 across, on a slender stalk i to 2 ins. long. Sepals downy outside, smooth 

 within. Seed-vessels with plumed styles. 



Native of S. Siberia, Turkestan, Mongolia, and the region of the river 

 Sungari, from which it takes its name ; sent to Kew in 1880 by Ed. Regel of 

 St Petersburg. Both entire leaves and leaves with jagged margins occur on 

 the same plant, the former usually as basal leaves of flowering branches, 

 springing from the axils of leaves of the latter type. The whole plant has 

 a grey-green tinge similar to that of C. orientals, but its simple leaves 

 distinguish it. 



C. STANS, Siebold. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 6810 ; C. heracleaefolia var. stans, Kuntze.} 



A deciduous, sub-shrubby, or sometimes scandent plant, with stems up to 

 6 ft. long, dying back nearly to the base in winter ; stout, ribbed, covered with 

 grey down. Leaves composed of three leaflets, broadly ovate, the terminal one 

 three-lobed, all coarsely and sharply toothed, from 2 to 6 ins. long, nearly as 

 wide, downy on the stalks and on the strongly marked veins. Flowers produced 

 on branched stalks 4 to 10 ins. or more long, the flowers being clustered in 

 the axils of leaf-like bracts. They are f in. long and wide, tubular at the base, 

 the sepals curled at the ends, nearly white. 



Native of Japan ; introduced by Von Siebold to France about 1860. It 

 belongs to the same group as C. tubulosa and C. Davidiana, a group dis- 

 tinguished by tube-shaped, hyacinth-like flowers. In C. stans the plants may 

 be male or female, or they may have flowers of both sexes on the one plant. 

 This last (monoecious) form is sometimes known as C. KOUSABOTAN, Decaisnc. 

 C. stans is distinguished from tubulosa and Davidiana by its laxer hat)it, more 

 downy stems, and smaller flowers. 



