CLEMATIS TUBULOSA. 
(Tubular-flowered Virgin's-Bower.) 
Class. 
POLYANDRIA. 
Order. 
POLYGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RANUNCULACEJ3. 
Generic Character.— Involucre none, or situated 
under the flower, in the form of a calyx. Calyx of 
from four to eight coloured sepals. Petals, none. Car- 
pels numerous, aggregate, terminated by a long, mostly 
feathery tail. — Don's Gard. and Bot. 
Specific Character — Plant a hardy perennial, of 
an erect habit, somewhat pubescent. Leaves trifoliate, 
with long petioles; leaflets rhomboidly-ovate, somewhat 
lobed, mucronate, dentate, with lateral unequally- 
branched veins, and furnished with long, short, or 
intermediate petioles. Flowers produced in somewhat 
composite, terminal, and axillary corymbs. Calyx 
blue, tubular at first, but ultimately becoming revolute. 
Sepals linear-oblong, conspicuously pubescent. Sta- 
mens about sixteen in number, with dilated filaments. 
Ovary and style silky. Stigma recurved. — Hooker. 
Clematis tubulosa is as great a novelty as it is a singular one. A plant entitled 
to the best attention on its own account, independent of its claims on behalf of the 
numerous family of which it is a member. The past year first found it in an 
innorescent state among our collections, but it has not been known long in any 
condition. It has probably been introduced within the last two years, and we 
think has come by way of the Continent. That it is hardy its natural regions 
sufficiently indicate. The " Botanical Magazine " says it is a native of China; we 
are also informed that plants have been received from the Crimea, in Russia. In 
gardens its proper position is on rock- work, or in the herbaceous ground ; about 
the former, in particular, it should find a place wherever characteristic accommodation 
is desired for the species. As has already been hinted, there is more about 
C. tubulosa that is remarkable than that which is beautiful, and a casual scrutiny 
at once pronounces it unlike the majority of its kindred. The woodcut at the end 
of our paper gives a sufficient idea of the general habit of this Clematis, and only 
leaves it to be observed that it is peculiarly dwarf, with ample radical foliage, and 
sends up a flower-stem eighteen inches to two feet. The specimen from which our 
drawing was taken flowered in the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Osborn, Fulham, 
in September, 1846. Its increase is effected by division. 
It is difficult to conceive anything more delightful than the Clematis family 
generally — the fragrance of many — the climbing character of the majority, added 
to the fineness of their flowers. And we have frequently had to lament that the 
