BOTANY. 



PHANEROGAMIA. 



Ord. ranunculacea 



1. CLEMATIS, Linn. 



1. Clematis Pickeringii, Sp. Nov. 



C. floribus paniculatis ; foliis ternatis ; foliolis membranaceis ovatis acu- 

 minatis integerrimis quinquenervatis laxe venosis glabris ; pedunculis 

 3-7-floris ; caudis carpellorum plumosis. 



Hab. Ovolau, Feejee Islands. 



Climbing, glabrous, at least when old, except the loose and ample 

 panicles, which are minutely pubescent. Leaves ternate, without any 

 tendency to farther division. Leaflets thin and membranaceous, ovate, 

 acuminate, the larger ones conspicuously so, rounded or sometimes 

 slightly cordate at the base, entire, five^nerved or quintuplinerved, and 

 not inconspicuously veiny, glabrous, about 3 inches long, on partial 

 petioles of about an inch in length. Flowers not seen; the only 

 specimen procured being in advanced fruit. The fructiferous panicles 

 elongated, somewhat racemiform; the peduncles 2 inches long, 3—7- 

 flowered, rather longer than the pedicels. Bracts subulate, minute. 

 Achenia oblong, pointed, pubescent ; the tails silky-plumose, an inch 

 long. 



