326 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 



without precise locality, alt. 3000-3500 m., June 1904 (Veitch Exped. 

 No. 3115). 



A pretty shrub with small pinnate leaves, silvery below, not common and re- 

 stricted to dry, warm river valleys. 



Clematis fruticosa Turczaninow in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. V. 180 

 (1832). — Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, XXII. 

 210 (1876); in Mel. Biol. IX. 582 (1876); in Act. Hort. Petrop. XI. 5 

 (1890). — Pritzel in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 331 (1900). — Finet & Gagne- 

 pain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, L. 537 (1903); Contrib. Fl. As. Or. I. 

 22 (1905). 



Clematis recta, a. fruticosa Kuntze in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. XXVI. 112 

 {Monog. Clem.) (1885). 



Western Szech'uan: Monkong Ting, upper valley of Hsao- 

 chin-ho, local, alt. 3000 m., June 1908 (No. 2483; bush 0.5-2 m. tall, 

 flowers yellow). 



Our specimens are intermediate between the two forms distinguished by 

 Turczaninow (1. c), having the entire leaves and sub-glabrous sepals of var. a. viridis 

 and the acuminate sepals of var. /3. canescens. 



This plant is very local in western Szech'uan, occurring only in arid places. 



Clematis Armandi Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. 2, 

 VIII. 184, t. 2 (PL David. II. 2) (1885).— Pritzel in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 

 332 (1900). — Finet & Gagnepain in Bidl. Soc. Bot. France, L. 526 

 (1903); Contrib. Fl. As. Or. 1. 11 (1905). —Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 

 XXXVIII. 30, t. (1905).— Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. 

 XVII. 269 (1910). 



Clematis hedysarifolia, 7- Armandi Kuntze in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 



XXVI. 152 (Monog. Clem.) (1885). 

 Clematis Biondiana Pavolini in Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ort. XXXII. 285 (1907); in 



Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Hal. n. ser. XV. 401 (1908). 



Western Hupeh: Changyang Hsien, thickets, alt. 600-1300 m., 

 April and July 1907 (No. 95, in part; climber 2-5 m., flowers white, 

 fragrant); Hsing-shan Hsien, alt. 600-1300 m., April 1907 (No. 95, in 

 part; climber 2-5 m., evergreen, flowers white); Patung Hsien, banks 

 of Yangtsze river, alt. 60 m., March 23, 1908 (No. 2468; chmber 4 m., 

 flowers white); without locahty, April 1900 (Veitch Exped., Nos. 2, 

 26); without locahty, A. Henry (Nos. 1468, 3377, 5998, 7784^ 5223% 

 5223'', 5223'=) ; *' Kao-kien-sian," alt. 800 m., May-June 1907, C. Sil- 

 yesin (No. 629). Western Szech'uan: Chiu-ting-shan, thickets, 

 alt. 1600 m., May and September 1908 (No. 835; climber 3-4 m., 



