A PHANEROGAMIA. 



2-3 instructs, adultis supra glabratis subtus petiolis cum pedunculis 

 sepalisque molliter pubescentibus ; paniculis multifloris. 



C. Esenheana, Presl. Rel. Haenk. 2. p. 69? 



Hab. Obrajillo, Peru. 



Although probably the Clematis Haenkeana of Presl., I suspect this 

 plant may be no more than a less pubescent C. sericea, Humb. & 

 Bonpl. The stems, or rather branches, are terete, very slightly sulcate- 

 striate, and nearly glabrous, except the younger parts. The leaves, 

 even the uppermost, are pinnate, with 5 leaflets; these are ovate, 

 cordate at the base, acuminate, from 2 to 3 inches long, rather thin, 

 entire or coarsely 2-3-toothed, 3-5-nerved and veiny; the younger 

 clothed with a soft and fine, rather silky pubescence (like that of the 

 petioles, inflorescence, &c.) on both surfaces, but the upper surface soon 

 becomes glabrous, or nearly so. The specimen is in flower only, and 

 the axillary, rather densely flowered panicles are not longer than the 

 leaves. Flowers about as large as those of C. Virginiana. Sepals 4, 

 obovate-oblong, about the length of the pedicels, silky-pubescent ex- 

 ternally. There is no fruit ; but the styles in the fertile flowers are 

 very silky-villous. In the same panicle are staminate flowers with 

 abortive ovaries, and hermaphrodite flowers with both perfect anthers 

 and fertile ovaries, just as indicated by Mr. Bentham of C. dioica 

 (Plantae Hartwegianse, p. 157), and as is the case, I believe, in most of 

 the related species ; although some are dioeciously polygamous. 



2. ANEMONE, Tourn. 



1. Anemone helleborifolia, DC. 



A. "foliis pedatisectis, segmentis glabris suhcoHaceis [vel membranaceis] 

 subpetiolulatis basi cuneatis trifidis, lobis serratis acutis; involucris om- 

 nibus trifoliis subsessilibus ; ovaiiis glabria;" acheniis Icevibus oblongis 

 vix compressis gibbosis ex angulo interno breviter stipitatis stylo bred 

 nudo revoluto uncinatis in capitulum globosum supra receptaculum viU 

 losum aggregatis. 



A. helleborifolia, DC. Syst. 1, p. 211, & Prodr. 1, p. 21. 



