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PotenUlla.'] u. rosacea. (J. D. Hooker.) 347 



rma short. Carpels about 20. Achenes many, rounded, hard, slightly wrinkled ; 



receptacle rillous. 



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^ 6. P. purpurea, Boyle III. 208, t. 40, f. 3 (Sibbaldia) ; polygamous, 

 leaflets 5 obovate-cuneate 3-fid, flo\vers purple 5-merous. 



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N. *W. Himalaya, Boyle, 

 ^^ I know this plant only from the figure and meagre description published by Eoyle, 

 ▼no gives no habitat, and I suppose it to be founded on a drawing of a native artist. 

 The figure represents a procumbent branching rooting flexuous rhizome or stem 4 in. 

 long, clothed with stipular sheaths, and bearing short lateral branches with tufts of 

 leaves and flowers. Leaves ^-^ in. long, hairy; leaflets 5, sessile, ^ in., obovate-cu- 

 neate. 2-3-fid at the apex, green above, paler beneath. Flowers | in. diam., solitary 

 or twin from the axils of the leaves, peduncle naked. Calyx hairy, lobes triangular- 

 ^ate; bracteoles linear. Petals longerthan the calyx, narrowly obovate,pale purple. 

 ^m dark purple. Stamens 5. Achenes ovoid, smooth. 



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Leaves pinnate. 



. ^' P. albifolia, Wall. Cat. 1018; stems very slender spreading, leaves 

 pinnate, leaflets few subopposite or alternate obovate coarsely toothed white- 

 tomentose beneath, stipules large, flowers solitary axillary, achenes many, style 

 abort ventral. Sibbaldia potentilloides, Camb. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 54, t. 67. 



'^Subalpine Himalaya from Kashmib, alt, 8-10,000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 12-15,000 ft., 

 ^:^'H,, a B.Clarke. 



^Sootstock stout. Stems many, 6-12 in., flexuous, branched, pubescent. Lower 

 ^^'«5 2-4 in.; leaflets 5-9, very unequal, ^-1 in., orbicular or obovate, lateral 

 Hraaller, lower smallest, green and glabrous above, snow-white beneath; petiole very 

 ender; stipules sometimes i-| in., loose, sheathing, brown, acute, adnate for half 

 tneu length to the petiole, t lowers \ in. diam., on slender peduncles 1-2 in. Calyx 

 ^/iite>tomentose, lobes triangular; bracteoles linear-oblong. Petals small, oblong, 

 torn ' *^^^^*^^' 'S'/fa7ne;j5 5. Achenes numerous, large, deeply furrowed ; receptacle 



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' Sect. II. Trlchothalamus- Stamens numerous. Flowers sometimes 

 ^«ciou3. Etceptacle with long erect stiflf hairs, which entirely conceal the 





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Leaves pinnate. 



P. fHi ticos a. Linn.: Boiss 



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^o^e^i//. 19, t, 1. P. Arbuscula, Don Prodr. 256 (nepalensis 229) ; Wall PL 

 i?' ^^'•- iii. IB, t. 228 : Lehm. Revis. Potentill. 18. P. reticulata, Bertol. Piant. 

 ^'^'^i'- A.S. i. 6, t. 2. 



alt '^o'^P^^t^ and subalpine Himalaya, from Kashmir, alt. 8-12,000 ft., to Sikkim, 



• A-^-16 000 ft.— DisTRiB. N. Asia and Europe to the Pyrenees and England. 

 ieav ^- l^ranched rigid robust erect or prostrate leafy low or tall shrub. 6 in.-4 ft. 

 ^^ imbricating. ^U in.; leaflets H i«-> coriaceous; petiole slender; stipules 

 J]r' ^^nibranous, obtuse. Flowers usually solitary, |-1^ in. diam, ; peduncle rarely 

 obov^f ^' bracteoles entire or 2-fid. Calyx-lobes ovMte or lanceolate. Pdals broadly 

 the 1 , *^«^«€»5 many. Achenes numerous, minute, with long hairs, and sunk m 



V?5 .""^ ^^ ^^^ receptacle. .,,.,, 



y*^- gfahrata ; very short, glabrate, leaflets lanceolate, Sikkim, alt. 15,000 ft. 



Imear^f* ^^^'•ea^a; Lehm.; slender, very silky, almost white, leaflets much-reduced 



^'Wceolate with revolute margins, flowers smaller. P. ochreata, Lmdl. tn WM. 



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