fianuncu/acea.] FLORA 01 Tasmania. 9 
rate, 1-5 inches long, blunt, or sharp, or cordate at the base. JlaaNTI 1 1 inch broad, dnt ht n with points half ai 
long as the cells. Carprls hairy, broad. 
I erroneously referred this in Lond. Journ. Bot. to C. sriafafe, DC., and now only assume it to be De Cau- 
dolle's 0. coriacea, for I have seen no authentic specimens of that plant : and his remark, that ii i ! 
the New Zealand C. ltcxas> jnila, a hardly applicable t.» this. That author however does not seem to have appreciated 
the full value of the character afforded b\ the couueetivnm. who ? e long point db-tinguishes this abundantly from 
C. hexasepala. De Candolle's vars. a and 0, founded on the cordate-obtuse and ovate-acute leaflets being found on 
different parts of the same individual, are not retained here: nor is the var. mimor 1 proposed in the 'Journal ol 
Botany,' the division and toothing of the leaves, and pubescence of the inflorescence, being equally variable. 
This appears to me to be almost peculiar to Tasmania and South-west Australia, for I do not doubt but that 
the C. pubescens, Endlicher (Hfigd, Swan River Plants), which is the same as C. discolor, Steudcl (Plant. PrttM.), 
is a pubescent variety of it, especially as 1 have also the glabrous state gathered at Swan River by Drummond 
From Steudel's remark, that his C. itidivisa of South-west Australia and his new species C. cognata arc both very 
closely allied to his discolor, it is probable that they are all one and the same species, for his description* contain 
uo differential characters. Whether the C. arhtata of De Candolle is really distinct from this I am not prepared 
to say: the awns of the anthers are always very much longer, nearly as long as the cells; its foliage, [lowers 
(except the anthers), and carpels, arc identical, and it serin.- subject to similar variations in all t 
-. d to be, were it to aa : ''mien* 
seem to connect it with the following. 
2. Clematis blanda (Hook. Jonra. I iberrima, fobis (ptmi 
natis biternutisvc, foliolis eoriaceis integris rarins \-l- 
late oblongisve rarins lanceolatis, sepalia antherisque ut in C. eoriaeea aed floribtu minoriboa et carpelhs 
angustioribus glabris. — S ■ I 273, Journ. Bot. ii. 399. (Gunn, 64.) 
Hab. Abundant in rich soil in shady places in the northern parts of the Island; very fragrant.— (Fl. 
Oct. Nov.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia. 
Roots not creeping {Gunn). Stems 4-9 feet long, scaudent. Leaves tcrnate or biternate ; leaflets small, rarely 
cut, i-H inch long, broad or narrow, linear or oblong ; usually blunt, rarely lanceolate. Flowers i-1 inch broad. 
In the original description of this plant, and in the ' Companion to the Botanical Magazine,' the C. coriacea 
was included in this species, and indeed, except by the fruit, it is not always possible to distinguish them. The 
present is a much smaller and smaller-leaved plant, with _ 
always narrowed into the petiole, and very shinhur ; all these are howev. 
3. Clematis gentianoides (DC. Syst. i. 159) ; erecta, rarius scandens, glaberrima, foiiis j I 
que simplicibus late v. anguste oblongis lineari-oblongis Uneari-lanceolatisve obtoau 
v. paree serratis rarius ternatis, foliolis foiiis similibus, peduncnl 
laribnsque 1-floris, floribus ut in C. coriacea sed carpellis glaberri. 
t. 5 ; Hook. Jour*. Bot. i. 841 et ii. 399, Gmp. Bot. Mag. L 873. 
Hab. Not so common as the preceding, but found in various parts of the Colony, always in poor soil, 
forming a bush, or trailing on the ground.— (Fl. Oct. Not.) {v. v.) 
Roots creeping. Stem bushy. geneiaflj erect, 2 feet high, or trailing, and then longer. Leaves entire, rarely 
trifoliolate ; >m broad elliptic-oblong to narrow linear-lanceolate, usually 1J-3 inches long, 
blunt or sharp', quite entire or more or less serrate. Flowert white or cream-coloured, on solitary, axillary, and 
