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« Cl. tubulosse affinis, attamen diversa petiolis elongatis, foliolis magnis 

 inaequalibus sublobatis, terminali basi rotundato, floribus hermaphroditis distantibus, 

 racemum nec corymbum formantibus, pedunculis ex axilla pluribus, lateralibus 

 uni-vel paucifloris, sepalis angustioribus, etc. In hortis Tauridee sub hoc nomine 

 culta. •» 



N. Turczaninow, Animad. in Bull. Soe. Imp. nat. Mosc, p. 272, 1854. 

 Maxim. Decas XX, in Mel. hiol. t. IX, p. 589 (1876). 



Cette plante semble devoir se rapporter à notre C. Hookeri, que le 

 Bot. mag. donne comme originaire de la Tauride. 



Je 'ranscris enfin textuellement la note de M. Hance relative 

 à nos Clematis. 



GLEMATIS (Flammula) TUBULOSA Turcz. Hance in The Journ. of Linn. 



Soc. XIII, p. 75, 1873. 



" I hâve little doubt that D r Williams's plant, which he describes as u a coarse 

 vigorous annual, with rank-smelling purple flowers u) is roferable tothis species, 



only known to me, however, from Walpers's Repertorium In the Peking 



spécimens, the lower leaves are trisected, the upper trilobed only, or merely irrc- 

 gularly slashed, usually sparsely hairy, and prominently reticulate ; the cohésion 

 of the sepals, though évident, is very slight, and at full anthesis they become free 

 to the base; the anther is scarcely longer than the filament; and the flowers are 

 apparently polygamous ; for in the same corymb I find both staminal flowers, and 

 pedicels from which the calyx has fallen, surmounted by the plumose ovaria. 



"... I hâve also gathered by D r Williams, a plant with hermaphrodite blossoms, 

 solitary and long-stalked, or arranged in a few-flowered raceme, each flower borne on 

 a pedicel an inch or more in length ; but the foliage and calyx ar so similar that I do 

 not doubt its being a mère variety of C. tubulosa. This approaches somewhat to the 

 rare C . stans S. and Z. which is unquestionably the nearest ally of Turczaninow's 

 species ; but in that the flowers (which are doubtless also polygamous, not strongly 

 diœcious) are more than twice as small, short-stalked, and arranged in 2-3 distant clus- 

 ters, forming a raceme. As the sections are limited in the Flora Indica, C. tubulosa 

 would, from its inflorescence, fall rather into Cheiropsis; but its affinities are against 

 such a collocation. » 



