Clematis] I. RANUNCULACEiE. 3 



To this variety apparently belong : — 



Huilla. — (1) A perennial undershrub, with numerous erect stems, 

 3 to 4 ft. high. Lopollo, fr. 24 May 1860. Coll. Carp. 14. (2) An 

 erect branched perennial herb ; stems numerous ; leaves divided ; 

 flowers large, abundant, white or turning violet, together with other 

 violet-coloured ones on the same plant. In wooded thickets, near 

 Lopollo, abundant ; fr. middle of May 1860. Coll. Carp. 37. 



3. C. orientalis L. Sp. PL edit. 1, p. 543 (1753); Hook. f. & 

 Thorns. Fl. Indica, p. 9 (1855). 



Var. y. Thuilbergii O. Kuntze in Verh. Bot. Brandenb. xxvi. p. 124 

 (1885). 



C. Thunbergii Steud. Nomencl. Bot., edit. 2, i. p. 380 (1840) ; 

 Harv. Thes. Cap. i. p. 6 t. viii. (1859) ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 6. 



Huilla. — In the more elevated wooded thickets, between Lopollo 

 and Nene ; fl. Feb., fr. May 1860. No. 1215. 



This No. has been divided by O. Kuntze into two, 1215a and 12156 ; 

 the former, 1215a, which has sepals nearly an inch in length, is the type 

 o£ C. commutata O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 128 ; the latter, 12156, has sepals 

 sometimes rather exceeding an inch in length. 



By dense thickets in wooded situations between Catumba and Ohai ; 

 in flower-bud in April 1860. An undershrub, more tomentose and 

 almost velvety, and with stouter branches ; possibly a distinct species. 

 No. 1216. 



Var. 8. brachiata (Thunb.), and var. e. Wightiana (Wallich), 

 O. Kuntze, l.c., p. 125. 



C. grata Oliv., I.e., p. 7, non Wall. 



G-oltjngo Alto. — Near Carengue, in wooded stations amongst the 

 mountains of the Eastern Queta ; fl. end of May 1856. No. 1207. At 

 the borders of forests in Sobato de Mussengue ; in flower-bud 12 June 

 1856. No. 1211. Between Muria and Calolo, on wooded bushy slopes ; 

 fr. Sept. 1857. No. 1212. 



Cazengo. — Between Agnas Doces and Serra de Muxaulo, in very dense 

 and hot bushy stations, abundant ; in flower and young fruit June 

 1855. No. 1213- Between Trombeta and Agnas Doces, June 1855 ; a 

 unique specimen, not represented in the British Museum set. No. 12136. 

 Flowers numerous, small, white, thyrsoid ; fr. August and Sept. 1855 

 (fl. June and July). Coll. Carp. 175. 



Pungo Andongo. — On the high rocks of Pedra Songue, and at their 

 base, in bushy places ; fl. middle of April 1857. No. 1210. 



Var. f. simensis O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 126. 



C. simensis Fresen. in Mus. Senckenb. ii. p. 267 (1837) ; Oliv., 

 I.e., p. 6. 



Bumbo. — Serra de Xella, in the more elevated wooded thickets, about 

 3000 ft. above sea-level, abundant ; in late flower in June 1860. 

 No. 1214. 



4. C. Welwitschii Hiern apud O. Kuntze in Verh. Bot. 

 Brandenb. xxvi. p. 171 (1885). 



A somewhat pubescent shrubby climber, tall and widely 

 spreading, woody at the base. Leaves bipinnatisect, 3-7-foliolate ; 

 petiolules or rachis often much elongated and twisted like tendrils; 

 pinnae mostly trifoliolate ; leaflets oval-oblong, obtuse, mucronate, 



