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POTENTILLA ATRO-SANGUINEA. DerEp 
BLOOD-COLOURED PoTENTILUA. 
SEH ik 
Clas aid Order: ; 
icouaieonts Pokebrina. 
| ( Nat. Of aARwablens: ) 
Cal. decemfidus, ‘segmentis alternis minoribus. Petala 
5. Pericarpia receptaculo sicco affixa. : 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
_ Porentitia atro-sanguinea ; caule erecto pubescente ra- 
moso, foliis.ternis petiolatis superne sessilibus foli- 
olis ellipticis profunde serratis subtus niveo-tomen- 
tosis, stipulis magnis ovatis, petalis obcordatis (atro- 
P sanguileis). = ee 
OTENTILLA atro-sanguinea. Lod. Bot. Cab. t.'786. Don, 
= ae Fl. Nepal. p. 232. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. 
Descr. Plant varying in height from one to two 
feet, erect, much branched above ; branches terete, pubes- 
cent, whitish. Leaves, all of them ternate; the leaflets all 
sessile, or only the terminal one shortly petiolate, ellip- 
tical, deeply serrated at the margin, the serratures often 
tipped with purple, bright green above and scarcely pubes- 
cent, white and tomentose beneath ; the lower leaves upon 
long footstalks, the upper ones gradually become sessile 
and smaller, passing into toothed bracteez. Flowers ter- 
minal, pedicellate. Calyx, with the segments ovate, the 
five outer inserted on the outside of the inner, alternating 
with them and remote from each other, patent, green ; the 
inner ones, as soon as the petals have fallen, close over the 
fruit and meet so as to form a cone; they are purplish 
i3 green 
