r 





t 



li J 



Alchemilla.] li. EOSACEi:. (J. D. Hooker.) 361 



_, 2- A. Indica, Gard. in Calc. Joum. Nat. Hist. viii. 8; villous with soft 



■ long spreading hairs, leaves orbicular-cordate 6-7-lofced minutely toothed, sti- 



pules confluent in a cylindric tube with oblong entire or toothed acute lips. A 



vulgaris, Wight Ic. t. 229. A. vulgaris var. sarmentosa, Thwaites Enum. 102. A. 



cejlanica, Moon Cat PL Ceyl 37, 



l^iLGHiRi Mrs., Wight &c. Ceylon ; Central Province, alt. 5-7000 ft. 



Sooist&ck creeping, woody. Stems prostrate, stout, leafy. Leaves 1-2 in. diam., 

 giabrous or silky above, margins silky, coriaceous, basal lobes overlapping or not; 

 petiole 1-10 in.; stipules J-1 in., the free portion membranous, erect or spreading, 

 ""ate. Cgmes globose, dense-flowered, on slender axillary peduncles 1-2 in. long, 

 lal^ villous, ^ in. long or less. 



Gard 



ner, 



cymes panicled. — Ceylon, 





14. ACrRXMONIA, Linn. Agrimony. 



Slender erect leafy perennial herbs. Leaves interruptedly pinnate ; leaflets 

 cowsely serrate ; stipules partially adnate to the petiole. Flotvers small, yellow, 

 1^ i^rnimal spikelike racemes^ 2-bracteolate ; pedicels bracteate at the base. tW- 

 .F persistent ; tube turbinate, spinous ; mouth contracted ; lobes 6, triangular, 

 inibncate, Petak 5. Stamens 6-10 or more, inserted at the mouth of the 

 ^yx. Bisk lining the calyx-tube, its margin thickened. Carpels 2, included in 

 j ? calyx-tube ; styles exserted, stigma 2-lobed ; ovule 1, pendulous. Fruit pen- 



uious^ of 1 or 2 achenes enclosed in the hardened spinous calyx.— Distrib. 



• temp, regions, and S. America ; species 8. 



Ieaf?V^i .**?P**'*or''l»» L^'^n- ; ^oiss. Fl Orient, ii, 727 ; hairy or villous, 

 8er^> ^^^Ptic-ovate or lanceolate acute obtuse or acuminate, coarsely obtusely 

 in A *^^ slender, calyx-tube villous deeplv grooved, outer spines spread- 

 %' A. lanata, Wall Cat. 709 ; Wallroth Bmtrag, Bot. 1. 64, t. 1, f. 9. A. 

 ^epalensis, Don Piodr. 229 ; Camh. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 56, t. G8. 



fit 



Temperate Himalayas, from Murree and Kashmir, alt. 3-10,000 to Sikkim, alt, 

 ^^ ft. Khasia Mts., alt. 4-6000 ft. Mishmi Hills, Gr?^^i^.— Distrib, West- 



Ji 



^ards 



— -^loid Lu uie Arianuc, isioeria ana Java, r^. Auienira, oa,\n,. 

 often 1 ^^^-5"' short or long. Leaves Z-l in.; leaflets 6-21, sessile, alternate 

 orbirn'" ' ^'^^"^^ ^" ^^^^ surfaces; larger 1-3 in., elliptic-ovate or -obovate rarely 

 ^i-hri f ' taller often orbicular and minute; petiole slender; stipules large, leafy, 

 ■fa f/l^p^^tire or toothed, .ffflcm^'s slender, lengthening in fruit; pedicels reflexed 

 CalZf x^^^ ^'^^ ^^ 3-partite. Flowers | in. diam. Pei'a/^ oblong-obovate, yellow, 

 a Z f ^ in., hardened in fruit, grooved, lobes conniving in fruit ; top of tube with 

 gp "?? ^^gof spines which become hooked in fruit and are erect with the outer 

 cha^ f ^*^^ am quite unable to correlate the India form of this plant with the 

 and 1. ^^^^^ ^^^ the European species so called ; all are more or less glandular 

 «Jah«..„^. , . y y . . . - rootetock,— ^.yai'a«ica,]VIiq. 



not different as far as a singlfspecimen enables me to judge. 



r^'^ftte or -lQ»i/*^,.i«i.^ ^i^j'. 



almost glabrous deeply grooved 

 £tr. St. Petersb. ii. 100, ex Wi 



j^SHMiR to KuNAWTJR, alt, 6-8000 ft., Thomson, C. B. Clarke.— Distuib. Eussia 



almost 



-ocnuria China and Japan 



"TlT^ ^^ to A. Eupatorium, uut mw.. ^.o^.w^. .» 



glabrous with erect spines.— I do not see how A. viscidula diflfers. 



forms 



-i 



i^^}\^^ -lanceolate obtuse'or acute coarsely obtusely serrate, bracts slender, | 



,,j*nube aliuruaf nri^i j — i a c..\^^a oil erect. A. viscidula, ^ww^e I 



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