288 ROSACEZ (Harv.) _  [Potentilla. 
| et afb ¢. ve Has. In bushy places and by river banks, in many places from Tulbagh through 
“ane Swellendam, and George, eastward to Albany, and in Caffraria. Mundt, E. § Z.! 
~ Qn Mell Drege? Mrs. Barber, fe. $e. (Herb. Sond. LC.D., Lin Soe.) 
HY Qreb! bl The upper leaves are commonly 3-foliolate, the pair subsessile, the terminal an 
pa ihLewee '"* inch removed ; when 5, the lowest pair is an inch from the upper. Leafl, 13-24 
inches long, 1-13 wide. The glands are never plentiful and often wanting. The 
differences between the two varieties seem to me to be of trifling moment ; the fruit 
in both, judging from dried specimens, seems to be pale. I am indebted to Mr. 
Kippist for the verification with the original specimens in Linnzus’s Herbarium. 
5. R. fruticosus, var. Bergii (Ch. & Schl. Linn. 2, p. 16); stem 
+ arching, villoso-pubescent or glabrate; prickles slender, straightish or 
| hooked, pale, numerous on the inflorescence and twigs ; leaves digitately 
pee 5~3 foliolate, glabrous or thinly pubescent above, naked or tomentose 
beneath ; leaflets ovate or rhomboid, sharply serrate, the medial largest ; 
panicle corymboso-fastigiate ; calyx-segments ovate, acuminate, tomen- 
tose ; fruit glabrous, juicy, black, of few carpels, Lt. fruticosus, £. & Z.! 
gts). . 19939 BR. Bergu, BE EZ.1 1964. ns 
ye Line Ow Wed Has. About the Lion and Table Mountains, and near Klapmuts, Stell.! E.g Z./ 
Brink ol Common near Rondebosh, Newlands and Protea, W.H. H. (Herb. Sond.) 
Wea W( —"The common bramble or blackberry of the Cape. It varies, as elsewhere, in pu- 
Meine « " ib t 3 bescence, shape of leaflets, prickles, and other minor characters. 
ar. Doubtful Species, : 
j > ~ 7 
Albi Auth|iy Ecklon and Zeyher’s No. 1707, “ R. rigidus” (not of Smith), of which a specimen 
pe exists in Herb. Sonder, is near R. pinnatas, but more copiously pubescent, with 
densely villous twigs and petioles. “Thé inflorescence looks depauperated, and the 
whole plant has the aspect of a ‘drawn’ specimen. I therefore pass it by. Among 
&. § Z.’s specimens of 2. rosefolius is one which looks almost intermediate between 
R. pinnatus and R. rigidus, having the habit and foliage of the former, but the more 
copious, softer, but not canous pubescence of the latter. Its panicle is many 
= flowered, but only partially developed. . 
II. POTENTILLA, L. 
_ Calya-tube short, concave, open ; limb 4-5 parted, 4-5 bracteate, per- 
sistent, the segments valvate in estivation. Petals 4-5, deciduous. — 
Stamens indefinite, inserted with the petals, perigynous. Carpels inde- 
Capricorn. Leaves alterna te, digitate or pinnate-partite; leaf s ts toothed or 
: ome Bis : ; egments too 
cut, mostly pubescent. Stipules adnate to the petiole. Peduncles in the forks of the 
bas ; Galle oe the res ves, or — one flowered, often corymbose. Flowers 
ee. which are strongly “4 : ; — Sets powerful ; in allusion to the properties, 
ial 
8 opposite, and shorter than the leaves; calyx-segments 
‘Shorter than the ovate-oblong bracts ; petals ....? 
___Hap. Near Verleptpram on the Gariep, Drege ! ‘Gab, D, Sd.) 
Bie Ske Winilia Tce, Ae Crematanodinn, Rana 0 Menai owned Oud 
coe Meee ° —— Kp cy 597 
