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Li; ROsACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 343 



^ Stems 1-3 ft., stout or slender, from a woody rootstock. Terminal leaflets of ra- 

 dical leaves 2- 3 in. diam., orbicular, lobed and crenate; lateral much smaller, often 

 minute, sessile, cut and lobed ; cauline leaves sessile, broad, variously cut and 

 lobed ; stipules leafy, lobed and toothed. Flowers ^-^ in. diam. ; peduncle slender. 

 Petals yellow, narrowly obovate, equalling or exceeding the calyx-lobes, which arc 

 acuminate and reflexed in fruit. Achenes spreading and recurved, hispid with long 

 bairs; awn | in., bent, hooked at the tip; receptacle villous.— C. B. Clarke has a 

 very^ robust form from Kashmir (Alibad, 9,000 ft.). "'': 



Sect.il Sleversia. /Sfy/e straight in fruit. 



2. G. elatum, WcdL Cat, 711 ; sparingly hairy, leaves pinnatisect, leaflets 

 very many short lobed and crenate, flowers erect, achenes hispid. Sieversia 

 elata, Koyle III. 207, t 39. 



Subalpine and Alpine Himalaya: from Kashmib, alt. 9-12,000 ft. to Sikkim, alt 

 12-15,000 ft. J , . . 



'■ Bootstock stout, woody. Leaves 4-12 in., linear-oblong; leaflets ^-1 in., close and 

 jmbncating or scattered, uniform or the alternate smaller, terminal orbicular, all 

 lobed and coarsely crenate, upper or all adnate by a broad base. Flowering stems y^'iili 

 'ew leaves and 1-6 flowers. Flowers ^-1^ in. diam.. Calyx-lobes dc >toid-ovate, 

 *^*ite, silky, spreading in fruit. Petals orbicular, yellow, much exceeding the calyx. 

 ^(^nds sessile on the base of the calyx, clothed with long silky hairs. Achenes ellip- 

 soid acute at both ends, hairy; style | in., slender. 



y^n. kumile, Eoyle I.e.; smaller, 1 -flowered, Nipal Kumaon and Sikkim, alt, 

 JjJ-l 5,000 ft. G. adnatum, Wall. Cat. 712. Potenti 11a adnata, Wall. MSS.; Lehm. 

 ^tll ix. 9: RevL^. PntP-nfAll ±7 t 17 



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10. FRAGrARZAf Linn, Strawberry 



perennial scapigerous herbs, with creeping stolons. Leaves digitately 3- 

 ^ely 5-foliolate very rarely pinnate or simple ; stipules adnate to the petiole. 

 -blowers white or yellow, often polygamous. Calyx persistent, with 5 bracteoles 

 *t Us base; lobes 5, valvate in bud. Petals 5. Stamem many, persistent. Car- 

 P««many, on a convex I'eceptacle; styles ventral, persistent; ovule 1, ascend- 

 ^- Achenes many, minute, sunk in the surface of a large fleshy receptacle.— 



I, Bourbon ; species 6 or 7. 



America 



Flmoers 



3-5 



jerrate crenate or toothed, peduncles solitary axillary 1-flowered, bracteolef 

 ^^e cuneate-obovate 3-5-fid. Roxh. Fl. hid. ii. 520 ; Wight 8f Am. Prodr 

 "^W; mffht Ic. t. 989 ; Bot. Reg. t. 61 ; Wall. Cat. 1236, e.vcl. No. 3 for thi 

 '»^t part. F. malavana. Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 520. F. nilgirica, Zenker Fl. Ind. 



y. /"♦'<-. X. maiayana, ^oao. ^f. -iwa. 11. *'^w. i. unginvo, *^«.«^. 

 ^^:^Frodr. 3m, name only. Duchesnea fragarioides, Sm. %n Trans. J 



X.373: 



^•^'^j Miq. Fl. Ind. Rat. i. pt. 1, 372, et D. clirysantha, Mtq. tbtd. D. fra- 

 ^lormia, Bon Pi-odr. 233. Potentilla denticulosa and WaUichiana, Ser. m DC. 

 ' -'• ii- ^'^^' S74. P. Durandii, Torr. 8f Gr. Fl. N. Am. 1. 444. P. ffagariae- 

 SXotzsch in Rpi». P>- WnMem. Rot. t. 10. P. trifida, . 



Lehm. in Otto 



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— , ^loizsch tn Meis, Pr. Waklern. Bot. t. iU. r 

 "^^nen. utui Blummzeit. vii. 263 ; Revis. Potentill 175. 



j^^^^Perate and subtropicid Himaiaya and along the foot of the hills from the Pun- 

 v!,^^^»AM, ascending to 7500 ft. in the east and 8000 ft. in the west. Khasia 

 ^Y ^iLGHiRi Mrs. Pexang {Roxburgh)— T^yiSTRiB. Affghanistan, Mountains of the 



17 Islands, Japan, Corea, and Formosa, 

 y^ ^ore or less silkily hairy. Sootstock stout, with many long slender prostrate stems. 

 yp^^ distant; leaflets rarely 5, 1-1^ in., petiolulate or sessile, membranous, simply 



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