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



[^PotefitUla. 



Vae, 2 ; stems more robust more dichotomously branched, flowers ^ in. diam., 

 achenes larger ribbed. Kashmir, 





SPECIES, 



PoTENTiLLA sp, from Shillong, Khasia Mts., alt. 5,000 ft., C. B, Garke ; perennial, 



, sparsely hairy, leaflets 3 sessile ^-1 J in. elliptic-ovate or obovate acutely toothed hairy 



^ beneath less so above, cauliue stipules small cut, flowering stem inclined or prostPit^ 



slender 2-3-leaved, cjines corymbose rusty tomentose leafy flowers § in. diam., calyi- 



lobes lanceolate acute, bracteoles elliptic obtuse, petals obcordate twice as long as the 



calyx, carpels many. 



PoTEjfTiLLA Catidolleana, Boyle III. 203, name only, 



PoTE^TiLLA Atropos and pteropoda are names given without description or in- 

 dication of affinity in Hofmeister's travels, and are no doubt described Himalayan 

 plants. 



12. CKAMJEBRKODOS, Bunge. 



with 



ZeaveS 



alternate, divided ; stipules membranous, adnata to the petiole. Flowers sniallj 



' " ■ " Calyx persistent, tube ebract«olate ; lobes erect, 



Petals 5, equalling or exceeding the calyx. Stamens 5, opposite the 



5-merous, in branched cymes. CJnhti- T^PTMiafpnt fiiV'p. ftTirarfi^olate : lobes erect 

 valvate. Petals 5, equalling ui ca^^ccvuu^ l^c K.a.±jj^. ^„<l^,,^^.^ -, -rr- . , 

 calyx-lobes, short. Bisk lining the base of the calyx ; its margins free, bnstly 

 Carpels 5, 10, or more, sessile in the base of the calyx ; style basilar, deciduous; 

 ovule 1, ascending. Achenes few or many, dry, glabrous. — DlSTRiB. Mountains 

 of Northern Asia and N. America ; species 4 or 5. 



1. C. sabuloBa, Bunge ; Ledeh. Flor, Boss. ii. 35 ; Ic. t. 257 ; tufted, glan- 

 dular and villous ; leaves 3-partite, segments narrow lobed obtuse, , 



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Western Tibet, alt. 12-15,000 ft.— Distrib. Altai Mts. . f^ 



Eootstock short, with many densely tufted short heads. Steins 2-4 in.,^ slender, 

 erect or ascending, branched, naked or leafy. Leaves with the slender petiole ^ in* 

 Flowers iin. diam., yellow. Achenes smooth, ovoid, narrowed upwards. 



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AXiCB&llIZX.ZiA 



Lady 





Annual 



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eaves 



orbicular, lobed or deeply divided ; s^ 

 pules adnate to the petiole. Flowers minute, in lax or crowded corymbose ^I ^ / 

 Calyx urceolate, persistent, 4-5-bracteolate ; lobes 4-5, valvate in bud. ^^^^_ 

 0. Stamens 1-4, inserted on the mouth of the calyx. Disk coating ^^^p.^^?^ 

 tube, and all but closing its mouth by its thickened mai^in. Carpels 1-5, |>^^ 

 in the calyx-tube; style basal or ventral ; ovule 1, basal. Achenes ^'^^^'^-^^ 

 in the membranous calyx-tube. — Distrib, Natives chiefly of the Amen 

 Andes ; a few are European, N. Indian, and American ; species 30. 



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1. A. vulgrarls, Linn. ; Boiss, FL Orient, ii. 729 ; leaves pl^i^^^^^S 

 lar-cordate 7-9-lobed toothed, stipules confluent into a funnel-shaped tube w 

 short broad spreading toothed lips. 



Kashmir, alt. 8-9000 fit., Falconer, Stewart, C. B. Clarke— Disrm^. Persia an 

 westward to the Atlantic, N. Europe and Asia, Greenland and Labrador.^ ^^^ 



More or less clothed with silky hairs. Bootstock perennial, creeping. ^ _ 

 6-18 in., ascending, simple. Badical leaves 2-3 in. diam., basal lobes ^"^'^^^^Yl^^X- 

 petiole 6-18 in. ; stipules usually spreading out like a fan. Cymes glabrous, irr s^ 

 larly racemed or panicled. Flowers ^ in, diam., yellow-green: pedicel ve^ » 

 Achenes 1-2. ,. 



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