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POTENTILLA bicolor. 
Two-coloured Potentil. 
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rosacea, or ROSEWORTS, Veg. Kingdom, p. 563. ined. 
POTENTILLA. Botanical Register, vol. 16. fol. 1387. 
Section 1. POTENTILLASTRUM. 
$ 1. Foliis palmatisectis. 
ASIATICÆ. 
P. bicolor; caulescens, undique pilis longis mollibus vestita, foliis subtus 
albido-sericeis radicalibus et inferioribus caulinis digitatis: foliolis obo- 
vatis gross? serratis, superioribus ternatis oblongo-lanceolatis summis 
lanceolatis trifidis integrisque, stipulis ovatis inferioribus serratis, floribus 
laxé racemosis imd paniculatis, sepalis exterioribus lanceolatis trinerviis 
interioribus ovatis ommibus petalis venosis pictis subrotundis emargi- 
natis duplo brevioribus. 
We fail to discover this pretty Nepal herbaceous plant 
among the many specimens which our herbarium contains 
from Dr. Wallich and other friends, nor do we perceive that 
ithas been previously described. The actual state of the 
genus Potentilla is such as to leave us far from satisfied upon 
this point. 
In general appearance it looks like a hybrid between P. 
atrosanguinea or nepalensis and insignis, but it has certainly 
a wild origin, as will be presently explained. In some 
“respects it approaches Potentilla insignis itself; but its hairs 
are long and soft, not short and close, and its leaflets are in 
fives not in threes. It may also be compared to P. villosa, 
which is found in Nepal, if Dr. Lehmann is right in referring 
P. leucochroa to that species, but it is five-leaved, and long- 
haired, with none of the hoariness of the latter. 
The appearance of the petals is most delicate and beautiful 
— far more so than our colourers can represent. Their ground 
colour is clear yellow, over which, at the base, is drawn a 
series of long hexagonal red meshes, which form towards the 
