та ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
Var. С. GRANDIFLORA, Hook.; leaflets membranous or subcoriaceous, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, at the base rounded or subcuneate, serrate, rarely quite entire, above glabrous 
or hairy along the nerves, glabrous to villous beneath; flowers with the leaves, 2 or more 
on the abbreviated branchlets; pedicels glabrous or nearly so; sepals obovate, at the apex 
rounded or very shortly and abruptly acuminate or subacute and mucronulate, 3—5 ош. long, 
beneath glabrescent in the middle; stamens 80-120, | 
Kashmir (Herb. Cale. !); Jaunsar (Gollan!); Krol (Drummond 7); Sirmor (Drummond !); Garhwal 
(Herb. Fale. 1) ; (Schlich 1). | | 
Var. т. MANIPURÉNSIS, Р. B.; leaflets firmly membranous, the terminal ones often 5—9 om. long, 
2—5 cm. broad, ovate, obtuse or subacute at base, narrowly acuminate, incisedly 2—3-fid., 
coarsely mucronulate-serrate, adpressedly hairy ; flowers with the leaves; solitary or in pairs 
on the shortened branchlets, pedicels rather shorter than the leaves, hairy; sepals ovate 
or oblong, narrowly acuminate, 25—40 mm. long; stamens 50-—80. Manipur, 7,000/--9,500” 
(Watt. /); Naga Hills (Colomb /). 
Var. 0. INTERMEDIA, В. P.; leaflets firmly membranous, ovate or elliptic, entire or subtrifid, coarsely 
serrate, puberulous above, glabrous or nearly so beneath; flowers 1—8 on the abbreviated 
branchlets; pedicels about as long as the leaves, puberulous ; sepals lanceolate, shortly and 
very acutely acuminate, 25—40 mm. long, 10—15 mm. broad, beneath tomentose at the 
edges, otherwise glabrescent; stamens 60—80. Merging into е. Sikkim: оп Tonglu 
(Ks Coll. '). 
B. Varieties with the flower-bearing branchlets elongated, scaly at the base; leaflets of flowering 
branchlets distant ; flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves, peduncles eperulate at the base; sometimes 
with additional abbreviated branchlets. 
Var. . ToxcLUENsis P. B.; leaflets firmly membranous, ovate, acuminate, irregularly serrate, 
sometimes subtrifid, rounded or subcuneate at base, glabrous or puberulous; sepals lanceolate, 
acutely acuminate, 3—5 ст. long, breadth 1—2 of length, in the bud pubescent on the 
inner surface, outer surface tomentose along margin, glabrescent in the centre; stamens 
50—80. Sikkim: on Tonglu (7. 7./ Gamble! K/s coll.!); Rungbal 7,800° (Кв coll’); 
Gantak (К?з сой. /). 
Var. к. KHASIANA Р. B.; leaflets firmly membranous, broad-ovate, rounded or subcuneate at base, 
coarsely pauci-serrate, shortly acuminate, hirtulous at nerves; sepals elliptic or obovate, at 
the tip very shortly and narrowly acuminate, in the bud glabrous inside, outside tomentose 
at the edges, otherwise glabrescent; stamens 50—80. Khasia (Herb. Cale. /). 
Prate 103. Clematis montana, Ham.; 1, flowering branchlet of var. tongluensis; 2, flower of var. khasiana ; 3, 
flower and branchlet of var. manipurensis; 4, flower of var. anemoniflora; б, terminal leaflet of var. edentata of O. 
Ktze; 6, leaf of var. incisa; 7, pedicel of yar. chumbica; $, outermost stamen; 9, innermost stamen; 10, pistil; 11, 
stigma of var. tongluensis. 
CLEMATIS ACUMINATA, DC, 
A large woody climber, more or less thickened at the nodes; leaves trifoliate 
leaflets coriaceous to membranous, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, entire or serrate; inflorescence 
dichasial or cymose-paniculate, three or many-flowered ; adult buds cylindrie or oblong- 
ellipsoid; sepals erect, nearly straight or with recurved tip, in open flower entirely 
tomentose outside or only along the edges; filaments linear, densely hairy; anther, 
linear, not beaked; achenes compressed, moderately or scarcely thickened at the edges ; 
persistent style feathery, 
О. Kuntze unites C. Leschenaultiana D. С. with С. acuminata; the leaves of the former are certainly 
sometimes exactly like those of б. acuminata, var. sikkimensis; they vary also largely in the density of 
