360 G. King — Materiah for a Flora of the Malayan Pen insula. [No. 4, 



Tribe I. Olematidem. Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite. Sepals 



valvate, petaloid. Carpels 1-ovuled ; ovule pendulous. Fruit of many 

 acbenes. 



Petals 0 ... ... .,. ... 1. Clematis. 



Petals many, linear ... ... ... 2. Naravelia. 



1. Clematis, Linn. 



"Woody climbers. Leaves opposite, simjsle or compound, exstipulate. 

 Sepals 4 to 8, valvate. Petals 0. Stamens many. Carpiels many, 

 ■with, long tails. OmtZe solitary, pendulous. — Distrib. Temperate climates ; 

 species about 100. 



1. C. siMiLACirOLiA, Wall, in Asiat. Research, xiii, 414. Leaves 

 simple, (rarely pinnate) ovate, blunt, with broad sub-cordate bases, boldly 

 5-nerved, coriaceous, glabrous, entire or remotely serrate, 3 to 10 in. long 

 by 1'5 to 5 in. broad ; petioles nearly as long. Panicles axillary, few- 

 flowered, 6 to 12 in. long. Flowers 1 to 1'5 in diam. Sepals 4 to 5, coriaceous, 

 oblong, refloxed, outside dull brown tomentose, inside purple. Filaments 

 linear, glabrous, the inner shorter with longer anthers. Achenes flat, 

 pubescent, with broad margins and long feathery tails. A tall glabrous 

 woody climber. DC. Prod., I., 10 ; Bot. Mag., t. 4259 ; H. f. et Th. 

 Fl. Ind., i, 6 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind., i, 3. Miq. Fl. Ind., Bat. I, Pt. ii, 

 p. 2. C. sub-peltata, Wall., PI. As., Ear. I, t. 20. O. Munroana, Wight 

 111., i, 6, t. 1. ? C. glandiilosa, Bl., Bijdr. i, 1. 



Penang, Curtis ; but probably occurring also in the Central Range 

 of mountains in the Malayan Peninsula. 



2. C. GouRiANA, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 670. An extensive climber, the 

 young parts pubescent, adult glabrous. Leaves shortly petiolate, pinnate, 

 2-pinnate or 2-terEate, the leaflets shortly petiolulate, membranous, ovate 

 to ovate-lanceolate, .5-nerved, sometimes sub-coi'date, entire or irregular- 

 ly dentate-serrate, 2 to 3 in. long by '75 to 1'75 in. broad. Panicles many- 

 flowered, longer than the leaves ; floivers small ("3 to '6 in. in diam.) green- 

 ish-white. Achenes narrowly oblong, pubescent, emarginate, with long 

 silky tails. DC. Prod, i, 3 ; W. A. Prod. 2 ; "Wight Ic. 933-4. H. f. 

 et Th. Fl. Ind. 8 ; Hook. Fl. fil. Brit. Ind. i, 4. Miq. Ind. Fl. Bat. Vol. 

 I, Pt. 2, p. 4. C. cana and dentosa, "Wall. Cat. 0. javana, DC. Prod, i, 7. 



Not uncommon at low elevations in the Indo-Malayan region. 



2. Naravelia, DO. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves 3-foliolate, terminal leaflet generally 

 transformed into a tendril. Sepals 4 to 5. Petals 6 to 12, narrow, longer 



may bo found. I therefore think it better to lot the diagnosis stand, than to modify 

 it so as to include only the tribe ClematidecB. 



