

Potentilla.'] 



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



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--A small high Alpine species, very difl5c»ilt in some of its forms tx) distinguish from 

 «warf states of P. multifida on the one hand, and but for the smaller flowers, from P. 

 mcochroa on the other, which again resembles closely P. argyrophylla of the Hima- 

 layas and P. yillosa of Arctic America. — Rootstock very stout and woody. Leaves 1-2 in. ; 

 leaflets \~~l in., sessile, very coriaceous, glabrous or silky above, snow-white beneath ; 

 petiole stout ; stipules ovate, acute, downy, entire or toothed. Stem with 1 (rarely 

 ^more) reduced leaf. Flowers ^ in. diam., on stout peduncles. Calyx woolly ; lobes 

 acute ; braeteoles oblong, obtuse. Feials yellow, obcordate, Achenes few, pale, tumid, 

 on a densely woolly low receptacle. 



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Eoot annual. 



* • 88. P. Kleinlana, Wight ^ Am. Prodr. 300 ; sparsely silkily hair;^, 

 stems many from the root very slender prostrate leafy, leaves digitately 3-5-foli- 

 oJate, leaflets 5 narrowly obovate or oblanceolate obtuse obtusely serrate, sti- 

 pules ^-lanceolate, flowers small in terminal panicled cymes, achenes minute 

 deeply wrinkled, stvle terminal. Wight. III. t. 85 ; Lehin. Revis. FotentilL 79. 

 , -J;. WaUichiana, Wall. Cat. 1022 ; Lehm. Rev. PotmtilL 80, t. 34, not of 

 ■^C Prodr. P. gracilis. Wall. MSS. Duchesnea sundaica, Miq, Fl. Ind. 

 ^cit 1. part 1, 372, t. 6. 



^ Temperate Himalaya from Kashmir, alt. 3-7000 ft, toSiKKiM, alt. 4-9000 ft. and 

 ^HOTAx. Khasia MtSm alt 4000 ft. NiLGHiRi Mts., alt- 6-7000 ft. Ceylon, cen- 

 ^ province, alt. 6-7000 ft.—DisxRiB. Yunan, Java, Japan. 



-V ^o^ual. Stems 3-24 in., flexnous. Leaflets ^-2 in., variable in breadth, mem- 

 ,raDous or rather coriaceous, entire towards the cuneate base, flat or complicate, be- 

 neath glabrous or with silky hairs on the nerves; petiole very slender, 1-4 in.; 

 ipules ^ in., entire or toothed. Flowers j in. diam., usually pedicelled, or in spread- 

 J^ cymes. Calyx sparsely silky ; lobes entire ; bracteules acute or obtuse. Petals 

 J^llow, not much exceeding the calyx. Achenes in a globose head with a large; 

 eptacle. — Leaflets very rarely 7, sometimes pedate. 



large glabrous 



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^9-. P. SUpina, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. OnenL ii. 725 ; annual, hairy, stems 

 "F^eadmg leafy, leaves pinnate, leaflets 3-9 opposite and alternate oblong obtuse 

 |ODulate or serrate, stipules ovate entire, pedicels axillary solitary, petals small, 

 wHenes minute, stvles subteriuinal. Wight & Am. P-odr. 300 ; Leh77i. Revis. 

 "" " Wall Cat 1029. 



P. ruthenia ? 



^otmtill 193. P. cicutariaifolia, Willd. 

 :ff«*i. Ham. 



t4. 



n ?®?I^^^' ^^^^5 Wall. Cat 1024. P. cana, Wall. MSS, 



^ P. amurensis, Maxim, P. obovata, BertoL Piant Nuov. Astat 8, 



Comarumflavum, Roxb. Cat Hort Beng. 39 ; .Fl Ind. ii. 521. 



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Gir '^-S^^^^^t the warmer parts of India, from Kashmir to Malacca and the Nil- 

 Xir ^ Hijxs ; ascendinff the Himalaya to 850<) ft. in the north-west. Iskardo in 



•Ifi&TERN Tibet «'■ " " "^ - ^ tv:^ :,.*.^_ 1 „r«nfT^.i^/1 frt tViA Arlan- 



'"=> N. Asia and N. 

 bit 



.^^^N Tibet., alt. 7-8500 ft.— Distrib. Affghanistan and westward to the Atlan- 

 ta and N. Africa. , . , 

 ^ms very numerous from the root, 6-18 in,, spreading, dichotomonsly branched, 



postrate or suberect, stout or slender. Leaves \-Z in., flaccidly membranous ; leaflets 

 J^^gulap in position form and cutting, usually obovate, often oblong or cuneate, ob- 

 ^^^3 crenate incised or serrate ; petiole slender, ^2 in. ; stipules very broad or nar- 

 38 , ^'f'^^^ \~l in. diam.; pedicels f4 in., slender. Calyx-lobes obtuse or acute, 

 5i.„ t"? braeteoles. Petals ohXone, yellow, smaller than the calyx. Achnes very 

 W' ^''^^'^> smooth or ridged ; receptacle globose, villous.— There are two extreme 

 inu J *^'^ common plant both found everywhere in Asia and in Africa, and many 

 C k- ^'^^^^ ; it appears to be very rare in the Western Peninsula absent from Cey- 

 ' Which 18 remarkable for a tropical and subtropical annual that extends to Malacca. 

 J. J^8- 1 ; sfems excessively numerous from the root slender, flowers \ in. diam., 

 "68 minute smooth. Plains of India. 



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