I. RANUNCULA‘CEEZ: CLE/MATIS. 7 
A 6. C. Gra‘va Wall. The grateful-scented Clematis. 
Identification. Wall. Asiat., 1. t. 98. 
Synonymes. C. odorata Hort. ; C. tri- 
ternata Hort.; C.nepalénsis Hort. 
Engravings. Wall. Asiat., 1.t.98.; and 
our fig. 7. 
Spec. Char., §c. Flowers axil- 
lary, panicled; leaves subbi- 
ternate, villous ; leaflets cor- 
date, acuminated, serrated, 
3-lobed ; sepals obtuse. (G. 
Don.) A deciduous climber. 
Nepal, on mountains. Height 
10 ft. to 18 ft. Introduced in 
1831. Flowers white. 
Closely resembling C. vir- 
giniana, but rather more hoary; 
and equally hardy, though it 
has not. yet flowered freely in 
the open air. A shoot intro- 
duced into the inside of a stove 
in the Chelsea Botanic Gar- 
den, from a plant on the out- 
side, flowered there in 1833. 
Frequent in nurseries as C. 
nepalénsis. 7. Clématis grata. 
47. C. Vio’rna L. The road-ornamenting Clematis, or leathery-flowered 
Virgins Bower. 
Identification. Lin. Sp.,765.; Dec, Prod., 1. p.7.; Don’s Mill., 1. p.8.; Tor. and Gray, 1. p.9. 
Synonyines: ¢. purpires répens Ray; Flammula scandens, flore violaceo clauso, Dill. Elth. ; 
American Traveller’s Joy ; the Virginian Climber ; the purple Climber ; Clématite Viorne, Fr. ; 
Glockenbliithige Waldrehe, Ger. acak tat 
Derivation. From via, a way, and ornare, to ornament. Leather-flowered Virgin’s Bower refers 
to the remarkably thick texture of the sepals ; the German name signifies bell-flowered woodvine. 
Engravings. Dill. Elth., 118. f. 144; and ourjfig. 9. 
Spec. Char., §c. Peduncles 1-flowered. Sepals connivent, thick, acuminated, 
reflexed at the apex. Leaves smooth, pinnate ; leaflets entire, 3-lobed, alter- 
nate, ovate, acute, floral ones entire. (Don's Mill.) A deciduous climber. 
‘Pennsylvania to Georgia. Height 6 ft. to 12 ft. Introduced in 1730. Flowers 
purple without, whitish within; June to August. Fruit white ; ripe in Sep- 
tember. Decaying leaves retained long, and dying 
off black. 
Variety. C. V.2 cordata. C. cordata Sims Bot.Mag. 
t. 1816., and our jig. 9. from that plate; Clém. 
Sims Sweet’s Hort. Brit. 
This species is striking in the dissimilarity of its 
flowers to those of most other species. It is of vigor- 
ous growth, and, exclusive of its flowers, assimilates 
to C. Viticélla; but its stems and branches are less 
decidedly ligneous. The stems are numerous, slender, 
and round; the peduncles of the flower are long, 
deflexed towards the tip, rendering the flowers pen- 
dulous ; the sepals never open, except at their ex- A 
treme ends, which are bent back, giving the whole 4, ciematis visrna cordate. 
flower a bell shape, but with the mouth of the bell — 
narrower than the body. The sepals are of a greenish purple or reddish 
lilac on the outside, and of a very’pale green within. The stamens scarcely 
emerge from the sepals. The carpels are broad and flat; as they ripen, the 
tail becomes bent in and plumose, aud of a brownish green colour. It 
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