Book  (Oct 2001)  Page(s) 148.  Includes photo(s).
 
Clematis chinensis
Origin: China and North Vietnam
Species 1757
... clusters of numerous white, scented flowers... four narrow, non-overlapping tepals, which are 6-10 mm (0.25-0.5 in.) long... creamy yellow stamens... Produces the strongest scent in a sunny position...

Book  (30 Nov 2000)  
 
49. Clematis chinensis Osbeck, Dagb. Ostind. Resa. 205, 242. 1757.
wei ling xian
Vines woody, turning black on drying. Branches longitudinally 8--14-grooved, glabrous or sparsely or ± densely puberulous. Leaves pinnate, usually 5-foliolate; petiole 1.8--7.5 cm; leaflet blades ovate, narrowly so, or lanceolate, sometimes lanceolate-linear or orbicular-ovate, 1.5--9.5 × 0.7--6.4 cm, papery, both surfaces subglabrous or very sparsely puberulous only on basal veins, or abaxially ± densely puberulous, base rounded, broadly cuneate, or subcordate, margin entire, apex attenuate, acuminate, or acute, rarely obtuse or rounded; basal veins abaxially ± prominent. Cymes axillary or terminal, usually paniclelike and many flowered, rarely 1(--3)-flowered; peduncle 3--8.5 cm; bracts petiolate and elliptic to oblong or sessile, small, and linear. Flowers 1.2--2.2 cm in diam. Pedicel 1.4--3 cm, sparsely pubrulous. Sepals 4, white, spreading, obovate-oblong, oblanceolate, or lanceolate, 6--20 × 1.8--4 mm, abaxially puberulous near apex, adaxially glabrous, margin abaxially velutinous, apex acute. Stamens 3--6 mm, glabrous; anthers narrowly obong to linear, 2--3.5 mm, apex minutely apiculate or subobtuse. Ovaries pubescent. Style 3--5 mm, densely villous. Achenes elliptic, 5--7 × 3.5--4 mm, appressed puberulous; persistent style 1.8--4 cm, plumose. Fl. Jun--Sep, fr. Aug--Nov.
Scrub, slopes, along streams; 100--1500 m. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, S Henan, Hubei, Hunan, S Jiangsu, Jiangxi, S Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, S Yunnan, Zhejiang [Japan (including Ryukyu Islands), Vietnam].

Book  (1910)  Page(s) 1.  
 
Clematis Benthamiana Hemsl.
Clematis chinensis Retz. Shima-botanzuru.

Book  (1879)  Page(s) Vol. II, p. 262.  
 
(3) Longiloba D. C. = CI. uncinata Champ. Kew. Journ. of bot. 1, p. 241 (probabiliter). Cf. Maxim. l. c. 597.

Book  (1875)  Page(s) Vol. I, p. 2.  
 
Clematis L. ....
3. Longiloba DC. prod. I, p. 3? – Miq. Prol. 189.
Hab. in fruticetis : Provincia Kü, ubi rarissima (Keiske). Fl. Aug.
Japonice. —

Book  (1872)  Page(s) 157.  
 
The names of some few species which occur in garden catalogues are omitted from amongst the foregoing descriptions, in consequence of the plants they represent being quite unknown to us, having, as we suppose, passed out of cultivation. We particularly refer to C. biternata (white), C. chinensis (dull purple) , C. dahurica ( dull purple) , C. japonica (purple), C. terniflora (white), and C. triternata (white) . It may, we think, be safely assumed that they are unimportant as garden plants. One or two others, as C. Gebleriana (soongarica) and C. jubata, are essentially weedy in character ; while of some few which occur in the Continental trade lists, as C. Blackburniana, C. californica, C. Camusetii, C. indica, and C. Leeana, we have been unable to obtain any reliable information. C. nepalensis, another cataogue name, appears to be applied to C. montana in some plant lists.

Magazine  (1842)  Page(s) 252.  
 
Observations upon the Effects produced on Plants by the Frost which occurred in England in the Winter of 1837-8. By John Lindley, Ph. D. F. R. S. &c. &c. Vice Secretary.
Read December 4, 1838.

...Clematis chinensis was killed to the ground in the Horticultural Society's Garden, but sprang up again vigorously.

Magazine  (1832)  Page(s) 29.  
 
Extrait du Catalogue des plantes cultivées et multipliées dans le Jardin de Fromont, près Paris. Serre chaude.
Clematis chinensis, 3 Francs