Potentilla.] XLVIII, ROSACEZ (OLIVER). 377 
opposed equalling or shorter than the upper leaves, at length recurved. 
Bracteoles of epicalyx lanceolate or oblong, nearly equalling the calyx. 
Petals yellow obovate or oblanceolate, scarcely equalling the calyx.— 
Lehm. Potent. 193 (where synonymy is given). 
Wile Land. White Nile, Consul Petherick! Sennaar, Cienkowski. Nubia, 
Ehrenberg, Dr. Bromfield! Kordofan, (Schweinf. et Asch. Enum.) 
Widely spread in Europe and Asia; occurs also at the Cape. 
7. ALCHEMILLA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 621. 
Flowers minute, hermaphrodite: Calyx-tube infundibuliform, per- 
sistent, limb 8-10-partite, lobes biseriate, equal or rise Petals 0. 
Stamens (1—) 4 or 5, alternating with the inner calyx-lobes. Margin 
of disk partially closing the throat of calyx. Carpels 1-5, included in 
the calyx-tube, style lateral or basal, stigma exserted capitate. Achenes 
1 or more, enclosed in the calyx-tube.—Herbs, usually perennial, pro- 
cumbent or erect, often branching from the rootstock. Leaves alter- 
nate, rotundate or reniform digitate or palmately lobed, rarely mul- 
tifid. Stipules sheathing, adnate. Flowers in dense corymbose or 
loosely panicled cymes or racemose, rarely subsolitary, sessile or pedi- 
cellate. 
A considerable genus, common to the cooler regions of both hemispheres, especially 
abundant on the American Andes. None of the following are clearly identifiable with 
extra-African species. 
Decumbent or prostrate. - 
ee ae or lobate, lobes not exceeding } the radius 
of leaf. 
Flowers nearly or quite concealed in the axils . . . . 1. A. eryptantha. 
Flowers in axillary racemes or fascicled on distinct pe- 
duncles. ; 
Leaves 7-lobed, lobes obovate-cuneate, nearly } of radius. a 
Carpels 2 2. A. abyssinica. 
Leaves 5-7-lobed, lobes rotundate, 1} of radius. Sti- 
pules toothed above. Carpels5 . . . . . . . 3. A. tenuicaulis. 
Leaves 5-7-lobed, lobes semicircular, 3 of radius. 
Stipules entire, membranous . . . . . . =. . 4 A. Gune. 
Leaves rotundate undulate, lobes scarcely deeper than J 
serratures. Carpels solitary Oo ee i 
Leaves pedate or 5-7-partite, median segments obovate 6. A. pedata. 
Branches erect or ascending, 1-2 ft. Flowers panicled . . A. elongata (p. 379). 
1. A. cryptantha, Steud. ; Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 259, Procumbent 
herb, branches patent-pilose rooting at the lower nodes. Leaves thinly 
membranous, rotundate-reniform, broadly 5-lobed, lobes rounded, very 
obtuse, rather deeply crenate-serrate, usually not extending over dor4 
the radius of the leaf, thinly silky-pilose on both sides, scarcely exceed- 
ing lin. in breadth in our largest leaves. Stipules serrate above or 
toothed. Flowers concealed within the sheathing stipulate leaf-axils, 
shortly pedicellate or subsessile. Calyx-tube infundibuliform ; outer 
and inner lobes of limb subequal, ovate-lanceolate acute or outer 
subacute. Carpels 5 or fewer, shor stipitate, glabrous. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
