

apeil.iooVJ MAKINO.— OBSEBV. ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. 87 



always beset with prickles, and the leaflet is much narrower and 

 thinner. 



Clematis (Flammula) Takedana Makino sp. nov. 



Stem herbaceous, sarmentose, slender, angulato-striate, ad- 

 pressed-puberulent. Leaves opposite, long-petiolate, trisected ; 

 segments subcordate or truncato-rounded, the terminal one long- 

 and the lateral ones short-petiolulate, 3-lobate, coarsely dentate 

 with a cuspidate tipped teeth, acuminate, subglabrous above, 

 thinly pubescent beneath. Panicle equal to leaves in length, 

 cymoso-paniculate, loosely many flowered ; peduncle slender, 

 adpressed-puberulent ; pedicels gracile, longer than the flowers, 

 minutely pubescent, 3-chotomous or several-fasciculated, erect- 

 patent ; bracts small, sometimes foliaceous ; bracteoles minute. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite, about IJcm. long, dull violet; flower-bud 

 elliptical-oblong, slightly enlarged above, obtuse at the top. 

 Sepals arcuato-reflexed, densely puberulous externally, glabrous 

 internally, linear-oblong, scarcely spathulate, obtuse, 7— nerved 

 (3 nerves stronger), with reticulated veins toward the apex. 

 Stamens numerous, 7— 9mm. long ; anther apiculato-obtuse at 

 the apex ; filament longer than the anther, linear, pilosulate 

 above. Pistils shorter than the stamens; ovary hairy; style 

 long-hairy ; stigma linear-oblong. 



Nom. Jap. Murasaki-botandzuru. 



Hah. Prov. Shinano (H. Takedal Aug. 28, 1905). 



This species seems to me to come between Clematis apiifolia 

 DC. and C. heraclesefolia DC. var. stans (Sieb. et Zucc). I have 

 named this rare and interesting species in honour of Mr. Hisa- 

 yoshi Takeda, who kindly sent me the specimen. 



Clematis heracleaefolia DC. var. Hookeri (Decne.). 



Clematis Hookeri Decne. in Nouv. Achiv. du Mus., Ser. 2, 

 IV. p. 206, tab. 11, excl. syn. C. tubulosa Hook. Bot. Mag. tab. 

 4269. 



Clematis tubulosa var. Hookeri Hook. fil. Bot. Mag. tab. 

 6801 (1885). 



