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LI. rosacea;. (J. D. Hooker.) 



[^PotentUla, 



Cat. 1028 ; Lehm. Eevis, PoteniilL 17. Western Tibet, fromN. of Kumaon to Ladak, 

 alt. 13-17,000 ft. 



Var. pumila; depressed, very dwarf, branches spreading, leaflets very silky 

 ^\ in., flowers sessile ^-^ in. diam. P. Lindenbergii, Lehm. in Otto Gart, und Blwrn^- 

 zeit, rii. 339 ; Revis. PotentilL 14, t. 2, 



Var. Inglisii ; very dwarf, most densely tufted, leaflets i in. linear-lanceolate, 

 flowers often peduncled, peduncle bracteate, P. Inglisii, RoytellL 207, t. 41 ; Lehm. 

 Bevis, PotentilL 18. Kumaon and West Tib^t, alt. 14-15,000 ft.— Very near P. 6/>''<^, ^ 

 Willd. of the Altai and American Polar regions, which has obcordate petals. 



Var. amierioides ; dwarf, forming dense hard tufts or cushions, branches with tie 

 densely crowded spreading leaves f in. diam., leaflets linear-lanceolate very rigid, 

 margins rerolute to the midrib, achenes glabrous. Borders of Sikkim and Tibet, alt. 

 17-17,500ft., J.D. jy. 



9. P. SalessoTil, StepL in Mem. Soc. Nat Mosc, ii. 6, t. 3; sill^, 

 shrubby below, leaflets 7-9 oolong obtuse coarsely obtusely toothed above the 

 middle, flowers large cymose, achenes villous, style ventral very slender. Lehtn* 

 Monoijr. PotentilL t. 1; Eevis, PotentilL 13. P. discolor, Cmnb.in Jacq. Vmj: 

 Bot, 63, t. 65. Comaruni Salessovii, Bunge ; Zedeb, Flor. Boss, ii. 63. 



Western Tibet, Lahul and northern border of Kashmir, alt. 11-14,000 ft— 

 DiSTRiB. Altai and Thian Schan Mts. 



Stems 1-3 ft., woody and as thick as the finger below. Leaves 4-6 in. ; 

 1-1^ in., subopposite, subequal, petiolulate, coriaceous, white or green beneath, base 

 rounded ; petiole stout ; stipules membranous, caudate. Flowers 1 in. diam., very 

 numerous, peduncled, in branched leafy cymes. Calyx tomentose, lobes ovate or lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate; bracteoles linear. Petals obovate-obloug, exceeding the calyx. 

 -white? Stamens many, filaments long. Achenes minute, many, immersed m tne 

 long receptacular hairs, clothed with long silky hairs. 



leaflets 



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Leaves digitately S-foliolate, 



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62 : tufted, silky or 



10. P. ambig^ua, Camh. injacq. Voy. Bot. 51, t. 



glabrous, stem very short leafv, leaflets 3 otovate- or orbicular-cuneate obtuseij 

 3-toothed or 3-fid at the broad tip, stipules leafy, flowers solitary pedimclea, 

 petals much exceeding the calyx, achenes many smooth, style slender ^^^^ 

 Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4613: Lehrn. Perns. PotentilL 21. P. cuneifolia, Bertoi* 



Misc. xxiv. 15, t. 2. 



Wall 



alt. 



lemperate and Alpine Himalaya ; from Kashmir, 

 9-15,000 ft. ' ' , 



J I ^- sometimes as broaa 



Rootstock stout or slender. Stems 



Leaflets 



in., 



as long, sometimes glabrate and glaucous beneath ; petiole i-1 in. ; stipules "^**"*^j. ■ 

 Flowers ^~1 in. diam. ; peduncle J-1 in., naked. Calyx pubescent or glabrate ; ^o 

 triangular, acute; bracteoles elliptic, obtuse. P^^aZs orbicular, yellow.^ ^^^,^^^gof 

 in the very long receptacular hairs, smooth, clothed with long silky hairs.— Foliag 

 P, Sibhaldi. 



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stout, peduncles and long petioles very slender, leaflets 3 cuneate incised 



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eriocarpa, WalL Cat. 1012; nearly glabrous, rootstock v^'? 



sate 



PoterdtU. ^^ 



toothed above the middle, flowers 'solitary, petals much larger 



calyx, achenes very small, style slender terminal. Leh7n. Eevis. 

 t. 4. 



than the 



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Tibetan region of Kunawah, Kumaon, Nipai., and Sikkim, alt. 12-14,000 ft 

 Rootstock long; branches like rootstocks, ascending, 4-10 in. long, as 



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ering stems from the tips of the'r branches, very slender, 2-18 in., suberect, gi»^ 

 or faintly silky, with one or two subsessile leaves above the middle. Leaves very 





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