BANUNCULACEAE. — CLEMATIS 325 



Clematis Buchananiana, var. trullifera Franchet, PL Delavay. I. 3 (1889). 



Western Szech'uan: vicinity of Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 2600- 

 3000 m., August 1908 (No. 2484; climber 4-6 m., flowers creamy 

 white); without locaHty, October 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 3118, 

 seed No. 1797). 



Common in thickets and hedge-rows in the neighborhood of Tachien-lu. 



This species is very closely related to C. connata De Candolle, especially to the 

 form latipes Kuntze, and would seem to differ from it chiefly in its more coarsely 

 toothed leaves and shorter, more compact inflorescence. 



Sect. VITICELLA Prantl. 



Ser. Florid AE Prantl. 



Clematis florida Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 240 (1784). — Sims in Bot. Mag. XXII. t. 

 834 (1805). — De Candolle Stjst. I. 160 (1818); Prodr. I. 8 (1824). — Lavall^e, 

 Clem. 16, t. 5 (1884). — Kuntze in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. XXVI. 149 {Monog. 

 Clem.) (1885). — Henry in Card. Chron. ser. 3, XXXII. 51, fig. 20 (1902). — Finet 

 & Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, L. 553 (1903); Contrib. Fl. As. Or. I. 38 

 (1905). 



Anemone japonica Houttuyn, Natuurl. Hist. II. Deel, IX. (XXVII.) 191, t. 

 55, fig. 1 (1778). 



Anemone vel Anemonoides Houttuyn, Pflanzensyst. VII. 11. t. 55, fig. 1 (1781). 



Atragene indica Desfontaines, Tab. Scale Mus. Bot. Paris, 123 (1804). 



Atragene florida Persoon, Syn. PI. II. 98 (1807). 



Viticella florida Spach, Hist. Veg. VII. 264 (1839). 



Clematis anemonoides Houttuyn ex Lavallee, Clem. 16 (quasi synon.) (1884). 1 



Clematis japonica Houttuyn ex Makino, Bot. Mag. Tokyo, XXVI. 81 (non 

 Thunberg) (1912). 1 



Western Hupeh: vicinity of Ichang, May 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 166); 

 same locaHty, A. Henry (Nos. 791, 3516, 3516^). 



A very rare plant in Hupeh, so far seen only in the immediate neighborhood of 

 Ichang. 



Sect. FLAMMULA Prantl. 



Ser. Rectae Prantl. 



Clematis Delavayi Franchet in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, XXXIII. 

 360 (1886); PI. Delavay. I. 1 (1889). — Finet & Gagnepain in Bull. 

 Soc. Bot. France, L. 537 (1903); Contrib. Fl. As. Or. I. 22 (1905). 



Western Szech'uan: west of Tachien-lu, stony places, alt. 3000- 

 3300 m., October 1908 (No. 1232; shrub 1-1.5 m. tall, flowers white); 



1 Houttuyn did not make these combinations attributed to him ; for the correct 

 quotations see the first two synonyms above. 



