Tas. 7258. 
POTENTILLA Satesoviana. 
Native of Kashmir and the Altai Mountains. 
Nat. Ord. Rosacez. Tribe Porenrinier. 
Genus Porentitta, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 620.) 
Potentitta (Trichothalamus) Salesoviana ; suffruticosa, sericeo-pilosa, caule 
robusto ramoso fusco-rubro, foliis pinnatis, foliolis 7-9 oblongis obtusis 
Coriaceis grosse crenato-serratis subtus argenteo-sericeis, stipulis amplis 
membranaceis acuminatis fuscis, floribus amplis cymoso-paniculatis, 
calycis lobis ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis utrinque sericeis, 
bracteolis parvis linearibus v. lanceolatis, petalis albis spathulato-rotun- 
datis calycem vix excedentibus, receptaculo globoso strigoso, acheniis 
villosis, stylo gracili ventrali. 
P. Salesoviana, Steph. in Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc. ii. (1809) 6,t.3; Willd. Enum. 
Pi. Hort. Berol. i. p. 552 (Salesovii) ; Nestler Monog. Potentill. p. 31; 
Lehm. Monogr. Potentill. p. 35, t. 1; Revis. Potentill. p 13 (Salessovii) ; 
DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 583; Ledeb. Fl, Alt. vol. ii. p. 233; Hook. f. FI. 
Brit. Ind. ii. 348. 
P. discolor, Cambessi. in Jacguem. Voy. Bot. 53, t. 65. 
Comarum Salesovi, Bunge, Ind. Sem. Hort. Dorpat. 1839; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 
vol. i. p. 63. 
Potentilla Salesoviana was discovered in the Altai moun- 
tains early in the century, and published under the above 
name; and it has since been found abundantly in the drier 
N.W. Himalaya and Western Tibet, at eleven to fourteen 
thousand feet elevation; and in the Thian-Schan moun- 
tains. In 1839 it was cultivated in the Botanical Garden 
of Dorpat, when Professor Bunge redescribed it, referring 
it to the genus Comarum, under which name it is very 
generally cultivated in European gardens. The reason 
for this transference of the plant to Comarum was no 
doubt the strongly elevated receptacle (a very variable 
organ in Potentilla) for in no other character does P. 
Salesovi resemble that genus (or section of Potentilla as it 
is now held to be) which is a marsh plant, with a woody 
rhizome, very small purplish brown acute petals, a downy 
receptacle, and glabrous achenes. 
On the other hand, P. Salesoviana is atypical member of 
the section Trichothalamus of Potentilla, characterized by the 
OctosER Ist, 1892. 
