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LI. ROSACEA. (J. D. Hooker.) 



l^Potentilla 



lensis ; distinguished by the shorter petioles, very deeply serrate shorter leaflets the 

 lateral of which are lobed on the lower margin, by the yellow flowers and strongly 

 wrinkled achenes; the broad corymbose inflorescencf^ further distinguishes it from both 

 P. nepaiensis and desertorum. Its nearest ally is the European P. hirta, L. which has 

 much larger flowers and achenes. 



29. P. argrentea, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl, Onent ii. 714 ; hoary with ap- 

 pressed white tomentum, stems leafy, leaflets 6 oblanceolate pinnatifidly cut 

 into broad subacute teeth, base entire cuneate, flow^ers very numerous subco- 

 rymbose, pedicels slender, petals yellow, achenes minute smooth, style subter- 

 minal. 



Kashmir, Jacquemont ; Pir Punjal, Stewart ; Alibad, 8,000 ft., C, B, Clarke.— 

 DiSTRiB. Soongaria, N.Asia, Asia Minor westward to the Atlantic. 



SteTns many from the root, 6-10 in., erect or ascending. Leaflets I -I -^ "iT^-t ^^^' 

 sile, rather stiff, lobes pointing upwards, margins slightly recurved, glabrous above ; 

 petiole 1-2 in. ; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, entire. Inflorescence broad, much di- 

 tri-chotomously branched, leafy. Flowers ^ in, diam. ; pedicels ^l^ in. Cal!/^ 

 densely tomentose ; lobes acute ; bracteoles entire. Petals rather exceeding the calyx, 

 obovate. Achenes on a villous elevated receptacle. 



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30. P. reptans, Linn, ; Botss. FL Orient, ii. 723 ; glabrous, sparsely 

 hairy, stolons long slender rooting, leaflets 5 obovate or oblanceolate crenate- 

 serrate, peduncles axillary solitary naked 1-flowered, achenes many smootn, 

 styles suDterminal. 



Kashmir, Falconer, Jacquemont, Thomson. — Distrib. Siberia, Affghanistan ves - 

 ward to Abyssinia and in Europe to the Atlantic, N. China, Japan. .' 



Bootstock woody; runners 1-2 ft., slender, leafy at the nodes. Leaflets i~^ *°:^ 

 membranous, somewhat pedate, sometimes petiolulate ; petiole 1-6 in., slender; s^^ 

 pules small, oblong, entire. Peduncle 1-4 in., erect. Flowers ^-f in. diam. ^^,*^^ 

 lohes broad or narrow, acute ; bracteoles ovate, entire. Petals obcordate, yeA ^ . 

 Achenes dark brown. 



Var. minor ; leaflets Jin. rigid obovate quite glabrous. . TTash- 



^ Var. ? trifoliolata ; pubescent, leaflets 3 obovaie sparingly silky beneath, a^s 

 mir valley, Thomson. — Probably a different species. 



31. P. pteropoda, Bm/le III. 2(yr, t. 40, f. 2 ; silkily hairy, leaves lon?- 

 petioled fan-shaped in outline, leaflets 5 cuneate-oblong toothed at the ^^Pv^, 

 pules very long adnate to and almost equalling the petiole, stems 1- 

 flowered, petals large, carpels ovoid. Lehm. Revis. PotentilL 157. 



Mountains surrounding Kashmir, Bo7/le 1. c. 



This is the only described Indian Potentilla of which I have not . ^^^ 



The above character is extracted from Royle's, to which the plate enables ®® j^ ^ 

 that the flowering stems equal or rather exceed the leaves, and that ^^^ P^ J* „i;int 



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obcordate and twice as large in the acute sepals, 

 with very much the habit of P. curviseia, but far more 

 leaflets, that have rounded 6-7-toothed tips. 



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3-foliolate 



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32. P. argryropbylla, Wall. Cat. 1 020 ; tall, leafy, ^1^*^^, f ^*J Irt 

 silky hairs rarely with opaque tomentum, leaflets 3 elliptic-ovate -^^^^°^ pjan/ 

 cular or obovate acutely toothed white beneath, nerves prominent, flpwe y^^^ 

 in panicled cymes usually long-pedicelled, petals large red purple or j 

 achenes smooth on a densely villous receptacle, style subterminal. 



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