74 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
Var. £. 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 em. long, 
beneath glabrescent in the middle; stamens 80-120. 
Kashmir (Herb. Cale. !); Jaunsar (Gollan!); ‘Krol (Drummond !); Sirmor (Drummond 1) ; Garhwal 
(Herb. Fale. 1) ; (Schlich !). 
Var. y. MaNiPURENSIS, P. B.; leaflets firmly membranous, the terminal ones often 5—9 em. 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 68 50-—80. Manipur, 7,000°—9,500* 
(Watt. !); Naga Hills (Colom) N. 
Var. 0. INTERMEDIA, В. Р.; leaflets firmly m mbranous, ovate or elliptic, entire or subtrifid, coarsely 
serrate, puberulous above, glabrous or nearly so beneath; flowers 1— 3 on the abbreviated 
branchlets; pedicels about as long as the leaves, puberulous ; sepais 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 e. Sikkim: on Tonglu 
(Кз Coll. ?). | 
В. 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. ı. TONGLUENSIS P. B.; leaflets firmly membranous, ovate, acuminate, irregularly serrate, 
sometimes subtrifid, rounded or subeuneate at base, glabrous or puberulous; sepals lanceolate, 
acutely acuminate, 3—5 em. long, breadth }—3 of length, in the bud pubescent on the 
inner surface, outer surface tomentose slong margin, glabrescent in the centre; = 
50—80. Sikkim: on Tonglu (7. Т./ Gamble! К?з сой.!); Rungbal 7,800° (Ks coll. ! 
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` an w 7۸ P leaflets firmly membranous, ء۔‎ 7 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. !). 
i ہیں‎ 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; 5, terminal leaflet of var. edentata of O. 
` Ktze; 6, leaf of var. incisa; 7, pedicel of var. chumbica ; : outermost stamen; 9, innermost stamen; 10, pistil; 11, 
па так m var. tongluensis. 
_ CLEMATIS ACUMINATA, РС. 
| juge: woody climber, more or less thickened at the nodes; leaves trifoliate 
_ leaflets coriaceous to membranous, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, entire or serrate ; inflorescence 
x баны. or eymose-panieulate, three or many-flowered ; adult buds cylindric or oblong- 
` ellipsoid; sepals erect, nearly straight or with recurved tip, in open flower entirely 
x tomentose outside or only along the edges; filaments linear, densely hairy; anther, 
: , not beaked; achenes compressed, CN or — thickened at the edges; 
por: X б feathery 
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