378 XLVIII, ROSACEZ (OLIVER). [ Alchemilla. 
2. A. abyssinica, Fresen. in Mus. Senck. ii. 161. Branches villous. 
Leaves subrotundate-reniform, 7-lobed, lobes obovate-cuneate nearl 
reaching half way to the petiole, truncate mucronate-serrate, the teet 
curved, bristle-pointed, somewhat silky-villous, the nerves beneath and 
petioles densely villous. Racemes axillary, simple or forked. Four 
outer calyx-teeth smaller, each with a projecting hairy apical tuft. 
Carpels 2, one suppressed at length. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Riippel. ae 
Description taken from the Memoir cited above. I have not seen any Abyssinian 
specimens exactly according with it. Alchemilla Bachiti, Hochst. (Schweinf., Beitr. 
I}. Athiop. 22) Ido not know. Both A. pedata and A. eryptantha are said to be 
from the Bachit mountains, and it may be a synonym of one of these. 
3. A. tenuicaulis, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 191. Low 
herb hardly rising above 2 or 3in., with slender prostrate branches, 
thinly villous with spreading hairs and rooting at the nodes. Leaves 
rotundate-reniform 5- or 7-lobed, lobes rotundate, broadly cuneate 
within, about } the radius of the leaf, broadly serrate, thinly pilose 
above, more distinctly so beneath, firmly membranous, radical leaves 
3—2in. broad more or less. Petioles patent-pilose. Stipules toothed 
at the apex. Flowers in bracteate racemes, fascicled in the axils; 
bracts palmately toothed, broadly cuneate below. Calyx-lobes ovate, 
the outer slightly exceeding or equalling the inner. Stamens 4. Car- 
pels 5 stipitate, 2 or 3 at length abortive. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, 7500 ft., and Camaroons mountain, 7000 ft., 
Mann! 
This species I take to be nearly allied to A. abyssinica, Fres., only known to me by 
description. 
4. A. Gunz, Schweinf. in Verh. Zool. Bot. Gesell. Wien. 1868, 668. 
Perennial with divaricately spreading silky branches. Leaves on long 
petioles, broadly reniform, more than twice as broad as long, 5—7-lobate 
to } of their radius, lobes broadly semi-orbicular with 6 or 7 connivent 
serratures, pubescent or glabrate above, silky with long appresse 
hairs beneath. Stipules broadly ovate, entire, membranous. Flowers 
not seen. 
Nile Land. Near Debra Tabor, Steudner. 
Description taken from Dr. Schweinfurth’s Memoir. 
5. A. Rothii, Oliv. Branches elongate, probably prostrate and 
rooting at the nodes, thinly pilose with spreading hairs. Leaves ro- 
tundate, the sinus either narrow or the margins overlapping, undulate- 
lobate, the depression in the centre of each shallow lobe nearly or quite 
as deep as that between the lobes, scarcely exceeding the serratures 12 
depth, the margin uniformly crenate-serrate with 9—12 teeth to tue 
median lobes, thinly pilose above, more distinctly beneath, 1 in. or less 
in diameter; petiole patent-pilose, }—-1 in. or longer. Stipules deeply 
toothed. Flowers in axillary bracteate racemes exceeding the leaves ; 
bracts herbaceous, deeply toothed. Pedicels slender, spreading or de- 
curved, equalling or exceeding the flower. Calyx-tube hirsute-pilose, 
