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This species has been much confused with that named by Hemsley C. Ben- 

 thamiana. The differences pointed out by Forbes (1. c.) seem to us sufficient to 

 make the separation of these species possible. The Chinese name in Hupeh for 

 this plant is Chin-Iung-hsii. 



Clematis chinensis, f. vestita Rehder & Wilson, n. f. 



A typo recedit ramulis foliisque sparse pubescentibus et stylis 

 achaeniorum pilis albido-brunneis plumosis. 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, thickets, alt. 

 300-1100 m., June 1907 (No. 2474; climber 2-3 m., flowers white.) 



Differs from the type in having the shoots and leaves everywhere sparsely 

 pubescent; the awns, too, are brownish- white. 



Clematis Benthamiana Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 2 

 (1886). — Dunn & Tutcher in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform, add. ser. X. 

 26 {Fl. Kwangtung & Hongkong) (1912). 



Clematis ternifolia Bentham, Fl. Hongk. 7 (1861), sphalmate pro C. terniflora. 

 Clematis terniflora Forbes in Jour. Bot. XXII. 263 (non De Candolle) (1884). 

 Clematis chinensis Finet & Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, L. 535 (pro 



parte, non Retzius) (1903) ; Contrih. Fl. As. Or. I. 20 (pro parte, non Retzius) 



(1905). 



Western Hupeh: Changlo Hsien, alt. 600-1000 m., July 1907 

 (No. 2475; climber 2-4 m,, flowers white); Patung Hsien, thickets, 

 alt. 300-1000 m., June 1907 (No. 2476; climber, flowers white); 

 without locality, A. Henry (Nos. 1062, 1497, 1518, 2773, 4368). 

 Chekiang: vicinity of Ningpo, 1908, D. Macgregor. 



This, like Clematis chinensis Retzius, is a low-level species very common all over 

 the warmer parts of China. The, leaves are usually more coriaceous than those 

 of C. chinensis. Forbes (1. c.) gives a good account of the differences between C. 

 Benthamiana and C. chinensis, but makes the mistake of retaining the name C. 

 terniflora for the former. That name, however, belongs to C. recta, var. mandshurica 

 Maximowicz, as Staunton's specimen which must be considered the type of De 

 Candolle's C. terniflora represents C. recta, var. mandshurica, while C. Flammula 

 var. of Linnaeus' herbarium, which is also quoted by De Candolle as a synonym 

 of C. terniflora and entered partly into his description belongs, according to Forbes, 

 to C. chinensis. If, therefore, C. recta, var. mandshurica is raised to specific rank 

 the name C. terniflora must replace C. mandshurica Ruprecht. 



Clematis paniculata Thunberg in Trans. Linn. Soc. II. 337 (1794). — 

 De Candolle, Syst. I. 136 (1818); Prodr. I. 3 (1824). — Miquel in 

 Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. III. 1 (1867). — Franchet & Savatier, Enuin. 

 PI. Jap. I. 1 (1875). — Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Peters- 

 hourg, XXII. 219 (1876); in Mel. Biol. IX. 595 (1876). — Franchet in 

 Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. 2, V. 164 (PI. David. I. 12) (1882). — 



