264 ON SOME CRITICAL CHINESE SPECIES OF CLEMATIS. 
(l. ¢., 'p ay urezaninow’s species ; but Sir gor Hooker 
informs m he is inclined to suspend his judgment on this 
point till hte Be seen the plants longer in cultivation. In its wild 
state in North China it is described by M. Maximowicz as “‘ Planta 
Vv is, caule mox herbaceo graciliore, mox basi lignoso 
Vi 
sessiles, alii pedicellati, mox flores sesgiles cum pedicellatis in 
axilla eadem intermixti, mox peduneulus ee ad intervalla 
ficients pluribus florum onustus.” The words which I have 
italicised represent the form which is ais as C. Davidiana. 
urthermore, Turczaninow's species has evidently been the 
. “6 Savatieri Detihe a rie — ome on one-half of a 
plant. This may seem strange, but one the less true. In 
1877 I — into two parts the a ‘ott a C. stans §. & Z., grown 
from seed sent me from Japan by Dr. Savatier. One part of the 
It was from this portion, cultivated in Paris, that M. Decaisne 
Secatieri he could draw sufficient characters to rates his C. 
avat vert.” 
— C. mandshurica Rupr. inPlant. suas in Bull. ‘Petersb. xv. 
514. — C. terniflora DC. Syst. i. 187, et C. tenuiflora (sphalmate) 
DC. Prod. i. 8, excl. spec. C. Flammule var. 
Hab. Chekiang (Staunton in Herb. Mus. Brit. spec. tyP- 
C. ternijlore DC.). Chinkiang (Maries, Herb. Kew). Shingking 
(Ross 559, Herb. Kew). Fengwangshan prope Shanghai (Martin, 
Herb. propr.). 
ada, ae oe 
* Translated from the Bull. Soc, Linn. Paris, No. 38, Séance Nov. 2, 188], 
p. 298. 
