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Potenma.] li. rosacea, (J. D. Hooker.) 353 



nearly orbicular in outline flat cut in rather a fan-shaped manner, glabrous above, 

 fiuky on the nerves beneath. 



Vab. S. latiloba. Wall. Cat 1010 ; leaves 2-4 in., leaflets orbicular in outline fiat 

 toothed from below the middle to the tip, nearly glabrous beneath, scape slender 2^- 

 flowered sometimes decurved in fruit. P. microphjila, Eoyle III 208, t. 41, f. 2. 



Vak. ackille^folia ; leaves 1-2 in., leaflets most densely imbricate pointing obliquely 

 jonrards and upwards almost perpendicularly to the plane of the leaf very silky 



Hfi/i ' ^^^^^«^^^^«; leaves 3-4 in., leaflets | in. separate flat broadly oblong pinna- 

 ana to the middle, lobes slightly falcate glabrous above sparingly silky beneath, scapes 

 Bliorter than the leaves, calyx-lobes and bracteoles obtuse. P. commutata. Lehm. Fu- 

 ^^ 111. 16; Revis, PotevtilL 65.— Kumaon. Wall. Herb.; Bargi Kang Pass, Sir. ^ 

 interh. The most developed form, annroachinff in size and habit P, mdunc utaris . 



widely differing in the fruit. 



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^ P- biftirca, Linn.\ Boiss, FL Orient, ii. 707; small, slender, 

 -hed -with appressed silky hairs, stem leafy, leaflets 5-15 oblong entire 2-3-fid 

 partite, flowers small solitary or cymose on slender peduncles, petals much 



^iceedmg the calyx, achenes glabrous except at the base, style slender ventral. 



j;- Moorcroftii^ Wall. Cat. 1014; Lehm. Hems . Pofeniill. 23,t S. P. ^lauca, 



^m6. in Jacq. Voy. BoL 64, t. 66. P. bidens, Bertol Mu 



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«, alt. 13-17,000 ft. — DisTRiB. Soongaria, Altai Mts., Mongolia, Caucasus, 



^oofstocklong, slender, branched, tortuous. Stems 4-8 in., suberect or diffuse. 

 ^j^*5~2in, ; leaflets ^-| in., usually linear-oblong, not toothed or serrate, obtuse 

 Qate ^^^^,^****^^^® ^y a broad or narrow base ; petiole slender ; stipules acute or acumi- 

 i«h ^^^'^^s i in. diam. ; peduncle -^-1 in., naked, flexuous. Calyx-lobes broad, 

 M>m^^^ ^^^^* .^^^^^ obovate, yellow. Achenes few, large for the size of the plant, 

 ^enL f *'^^^°S^^ar, obtuse, quite smooth, exceeding the hairs of the elevated 



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 Too^f ■ ] ^^^'l^-ttdrlfolla, Dm Prodr. 232 ; sparsely hairy^ or glabrate, 

 linear ^^P ^^^^^' leaflets 6-ao pair broadly ovate deeply cut into spreading 

 Sower<f' ^l^^^late hair-pointed lobes, flowering stems ascending and prostrate, 

 it^L , ^■'i^^^^Uately corymboss, petals obcordate, achenes nearly glabrous, 

 j^« Slender terminal. P. meifolia, Wall Cat. 1011; Lehn. Bevis. PoteiUill 



^^onog. SuppliA.1. 



l3,ooo^ff*V*°*^ Eastern Alpine Himalaya ; Nipal, Wallich ; Sikkim, Jongri, alt. 



'^ «•, C. B. Clarke. 

 iBg 2^ ■ * *8 thick as the thumb, inclined. Leaves excessively numerous, spnad- 

 •*>» U*^' '.^^aflets i-i in broad, opposite and alternate, sessile, glabrous f-xcept a few 

 ^nner • "^"^ ^^ ^^^ ^JP ^f e^^ry segment, cut almost to the midrib in a fan-like 

 Uirj. •P5*"iary segments again divided, ultimate ones acute ; petiole with appressed 

 *^iiiT -^^ subulate. Flowering f^tems 4-6 in., numerous, declinate aud then 

 ^ Blend ^^^^ oppressed hairs and a few much reduced leaves. Flowers I m. diam. 

 «ng, J:^^^ P^^cels. Ca/?/x glabrate ; lobes triangular, acute; bracteoles Imear-ob- 

 Miity rif' Pf^tals twice as long as the wilyx, yellow. Achenes smooth; receptiide 

 ''fte \; 1 ^^fl^ts of the Sikkim specimens are much more finely divided than those 

 '^^ipalones. ^ 



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Nole an J ?*^l**fida, Linn.; Bom. Fl. Orient, ii. 710; stems many and 

 finnate o '^*^®^ beneath softly white-tomentose without silky hairs, leaves 

 *ovafi>.- ^'^Wigitately 3-5-foliolate fflahrous a^wve, leaflets linear-oblong or 



Voi;""^H^d nearly to the base, segments linear or lanceolate ascei 



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