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LI. BOSACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 



\_PotentilIa, 



tlie obcuneate cut stipules and trifid bracteoles. It appears to be a very scarce plant, 

 and I regret to find Thomson's specimens have been by me mixed in the distribution 

 ■with those of P. gelida, under the name of P. grandiflora, 



35. P. monanthes, Lindl. in Wall Cat. 1026 ; glandular or sprsely 

 pubescent, leaflets 3 broadly obcuneate coarsely crenate at the apex, caulme sti- 

 pules broad-ovate acute, flowering stems very many ascending leafy, flowers 

 sessile and pedicelled at the top of the stem, calyx-lobes broad obtuse, bracteoles 

 orbicular-oblong, achenes minute smooth, style terminal. Lehm. Jievts. Potm- 

 tilL 175. P. cryptantha, Klotzsch in Reis. Pr, Waldem, Bot, t, 12. 



Alpine Himalaya ; from "Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 10,000 to 15,000 ft. 



Forming large spreading tufts of leaves and stems 2-12 in. high from a rather 



small rootstock, very variable in size. Leaves radical and cauline, all short petioled; 



nded ; 



than the lobes. Petals obovate-orbicular, not much exceeding the calyx, 1^^^^' 

 Achenes exceedingly numerous and minute, on a glolxjse villous receptacle, l^e 

 rounded tips of the sepals and bracteoles are good characters of this species, in^ 

 Potentilla 26 of Strachey and Winterbottom from 12,000 ft. in Kumaon is, I think, a 

 minute state. * a 



Var. sibthorpioides ; much smaller, stems filiform prostrate, leaflets ^-\ in. broaaer, 

 flowers \ in. diam., calyx-lobes and bracteoles narrower. — Lachen valley, Sikkim, a . 

 lU13,000ft., c7.i>. H. 



36. P. curviseta, Hooh. /. ; rigid, thinly silky, leaflets 3 nairowly 

 linear-cuneate truncate and trifid at the tip, stipules forming a narrow wing ^^ 

 the petiole for half its length, flowering stems slender, pedicels filiform deciu-veui 



terminal. 



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Kashmir; at Tilail, alt. 12,000 ft., C, B. Clarke. 



Whole plant rigidly elastic when dry. Rootstock slender, crowned with stin re- 

 curved almost woody leaf bases. Leaves few, 2-3 in. long ; leaflets ^-1 hy ^j '"*' 

 suberect, coriaceous, hairy on both surfaces, teeth acute, the lateral leaflets with some- 

 times an additional tooth on the outer margin ; petiole rigid, with a rather mem- 

 branous brown sheath formed by the stipules which above the base form a green 

 narrow margin along the petiole to its middle ; free parts of stipules small, subulate, en- 

 tire. Flowering stems 2-3 in., 2-3-flowered, slender, wiry, with opposite linear brae 

 at themiddle and a cut one at the giving off of the pedicels ; pedicels circinnately J ' 

 curved afl:er flowering, naked or with a bract at the middle. Calyx \ in. diam., su 7^ 

 lobes lanceolate, acuminate, much larger than the oblong bracteoles. Stamens ^^^ 

 carpels about 20. Achenes few, large, obliquely ovoid; receptacle flat, villous. ^ 

 very remarkable species, allied to P. trid€7itata, L., P. Saxifraga, Ard., and P. ^^\^ 

 The only Himalayan one with hairy carpels. Still more near to the ^- P^^^^^ ^1 

 Royle, which has 3-5 much broader more toothed leaflets rounded at the tip, an^ ^ 

 parently larger flowers. I have seen no petals. 



37. P. nlvea, Linn. ; Boxss. Flor. Onent ii. 725 ; dwarf, densely clotbeU 

 with white appressed tomentum, leaflets 3 rarely 5 small obovate acute!) 

 rate, flowering stem 1-3-flowered, calyx villous, petals obcordate, achenes seve ^ 

 smooth and faintly wrinkled, style terminal. Lehjn. Revis. PotpnfM ^^j^- ^^ii 

 coespitosa, Lehm. Add, Ind. Sem. Ilort. Hamh. 1849, 10 ; Rem. Potefimi^ I'-i 

 t. 53. P. argjTophylla, mr. prostrata, -ffe^-fi. 7wrf. Or. Hook.f.SfT. Z-Ay% 



Western TiBExand drier Alpine regions of the whole Himalaya, alt. ^^^^'p^ope,' "- 



DisTRiB. Caucasus and westwards to the Alps, Arctic and cold regions o^ ^- ^ .. ^ '. . 



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