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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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found in Natal by a collector employed by Lord Derby, whose name it 
bears in the specific title, and not that of the modern African traveller, 
as some might suppose. 
some genus, and deserves to bear the name of that nobleman Lord 
Derby, through whose liberal patronage of natural history the plant 
is made known to us. Its discoverer remarks that it forms a shrub 
Fig. 35.—CLEMATIS STANLEYI. 
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The plant was figured in Hooker’s “ leones Plantarum ” in 1843, and 
accompanying the Latin description are the following remarks :— 
“ This is, assuredly, the handsomest species of an extensive and hand- 
(apparently several feet in height), everywhere clothed with silky 
tomentum, so as to have a good deal the appearance of the silky variety 
of the North American Anemone patens. The flowers are as large 
