RANUNCULACEAE. — CLEMATIS 329 



Hsien, thickets, alt. 1300 m., July and October 1907 (No. 426, in part; 

 climber 3-5 m., flowers white). 



Very common in western Hupeh up to 1300 m. alt. The fulvous colored awns 

 are strikingly handsome. 



Clematis obscura Maximowicz in Act. Hort. Petrop. XL 6 (1890). 

 Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, thickets, alt. 1100 m., June 



1907 (No. 2478; climber 2-3m., flowers white). Western Sze- 

 ch'uan : near Chungking, banks of Yangtsze river, alt. 300 m., April 



1908 (No. 2471; chmber 2-3 m., flowers white); Chiu-ting-shan, 

 thickets, alt. 1300-1500 m.. May 26, 1908 (No. 2472; climber 

 2-4 m., flowers white, fragrant); near Sungpan, thickets, alt. 2300- 

 2600 m., August 1910 (No. 4549; climber 2-3 m., flowers white). 

 Shensi : north-west of Han-cheng Hsien, 1910, W. Purdom (No. 382). 



This plant always dries black and at first sight suggests a large-flowered variety 

 of Clematis chinensis Retzius. The leaves, however, are usually pinnately 7-folio- 

 late, the basal pair being often trifid or even trifoliolate. The leaflets vary con- 

 siderably in size and shape and in depth of the incisions; the flowers are often 4 cm. 

 across, with 5-8 sepals and are fragrant; the awns are fulvous-brown. 



Clematis chinensis Retzius, Observ. II. 18, No. 53, t. 2 (1781).— 

 De Candolle, Syst. 1. 137 (1818); Prodr. I. 3 (1824). — Forbes in Jour. 

 Bot. XXII. 262 (1884). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 3 

 (1886). — Pritzel in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 332 (1900). — Finet & Gagne- 

 pain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, L. 535 (pro parte) (1903) ; Contrih. Fl. 

 As. Or. I. 20 (pro parte) (1905). 



Clematis sinensis Loureiro, Fl. Cochin. 345 (1790). 



Clematis minor Loureiro, Fl. Cochin. 345 (1790). — De Candolle Syst. I. 136 



(1818). — Forbes in Jour. Bot. XXII. 263 (1884). 

 Clematis recta, $. chinensis Kuntze in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. XXVI. 114 



{Monog. Clem.) (1885). 

 Clematis funebris Leveill6 & Vanoit in Bull. Acad. Intern. Geog. Bot. XI. 168 



(1902). 



Kiangsi: Ruling, thickets, alt. 1300 m., July 30, 1903 (No. 1550; 

 climber 2.5-3 m., flowers white). Western Hupeh: Ichang, 

 thickets, alt. 300-1000 m., June 6- August 1907 (Nos. 2473, 2477; 

 climbers 2-3 m., flowers white); without locality, August 1900 (Veitch 

 Exped. Nos. 1679, 1306); without locality, A. Hennj (Nos. 1601, 

 4328,4348,6220). Western Szech'u an: Kiating Fu, roadside 

 thickets, alt. 300-600 m., September 5, 1908 (No. 1357; chmber 2- 

 3 m., flowers white, fragrant); banks of Yangtsze river, April 1903 

 (Veitch Exped. 3124). 



