: Tas. 8637. 
POTENTILLA pavurica, var. Verrcut. 
China. 
RosaceagE. Tribe Porenrinuear. 
PorentTiLua, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 620; Wolf in Luerssen 
Bibliotheca Botanica, vol. xvi. (Heft 71). 
Potentilla davurica, Nestl., var. Veitchii, Jesson; varietas distincta a 
P. davurica typica habitu altiore laxiore et foliolis saltem juvenilibus 
utrinque magis minusve sericeo-pilosis apte sejungenda. 
Frutex sempervirens, 1-1°5 m. altus; caules ramique lignosi, juniores pilis 
sericeis magis minusve vestiti, vetustiores sparse pilosi, cortice fusco facile 
solubili. Folia 1:5-2-5 cm. longa, 3-5-foliolata, petiolo 0-5-1°2 em. longo 
pubescente suffulta; foliola sessilia obovato-oblonga vel oblanceolata, 
apice mucronulata, integra, 0°7-1°5 cm. longa, 0°35-0°7 em. lata, supra 
viridia, subtus pallidiora, utrinque adpresse sericeo-pilosa (in planta culta 
parce pilosa), nervis lateralibus infra plus minusve conspicuis ; stipulae 
ovatae, acuminatae, 7 mm. longae, scariosae. Flores plerumque apices 
ramulorum brevium, uni- vel pauci-foliatorum terminantes, solitarii, raro 
altero subterminali addito, hermaphroditi vel masculi, albi; pedicelli~ 
1-2 cm. longi, longe laxiuscule sericeo-pilosi vel subvillosi. Sepala 
exteriora herbacea, viridia, obovato-oblonga, acuta, mucronulata, 4-5 mm. 
_ longa, interiora submembranacea, flavescentia, exterioribus semper longiora, 
ovata, mucronato-acuminata, omnia extra pilis albis instructa, interiora 
intus apicem versus villosula. Petala obovata vel suborbiculata, 7-9 mm. 
longa. Stamina petalis dimidio breviora. Ovariwm pilis longis denxissime 
tectum. Stylus claviculiformis, vel crassiuscule filiformis. Stigma sub- 
capitatum.—P. Veitchii, E. H. Wilson in Gard. Chron., 1911, vol. 1. p- 102. 
P. fruticosa, var. Veitchiit, Bean, Trees and Shrubs, vol. ii. p. 222.— 
E. M. Jxsson. 
The subject of our plate is one of the most attractive 
and, from the cultural standpoint, one of the most 
distinct of the various shrubby Potentillas added to our 
collections in recent years. It is a native of upland 
thickets in Szechuan and Western Hupeh at elevations 
of over 6000 feet above sea-level, and was introduced 
from this area by Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons through 
their collector, Mr. E. H. Wilson, in 1900. It flowered 
under cultivation for the first time in their nursery at 
Coombe Wood in 1902. In 1907 Mr. Wilson sent plants 
from the Arnold Arboretum on behalf of Professor 
Sargent, and in 1911 he treated the plant as a distinct 
species, P. Veitchii. In 1912 another plant raised from 
Novemper, 1915. 
