Alchemilla.] ROSACEA (Hary.) 291 
1, A. latebrosa (Ait. Hort. Kew. 1, p. 16); stem short, root-like, 
procumbent ; leaves radical, rosulate, softly villous ; leaflets in 9-10 pairs, 
oblong, inciso-serrate ; peduncle scape-like, with 2-3 small, distant, leafy 
bracts ; spike laxly several flowered, elongate ; calyx-tube densely 
woolly, and armed with many, dispersed, barbed bristles, DC. Prod. 
2, p. 592. H. & Z.! 1717. Ancistrum decumbens, Th. Fl. Cap. p. 31. Ag- 
rumonia decumbens, Linn. f. Suppl. 251. 
Has. Roggeveld, Thunberg. Bontjeskraal and Babylon’s Toorensherg, Caledon, 
and near River Zonderende and Breede R. ZL. ¢ Z.! Modderfonteinsberg, 4000~ 
5000 f. Drege! (Herb. Sd., D.) 
Stem underground or prostrate, simple or branched, the short branches or crowns 
ending in a tuft of many leaves. Leaves 4 or § inches long, clothed with long, soft 
hairs ; leaf-pairs 9-10, the lowest leaflets smallest, the upper gradually larger, oppo- 
site or alternate, 3-6 lines long, 3-4 lines wide, deeply incised. Peduncle 1-13 foot 
long, the sparsely flowered spike 6-8 inches long. Calyx lobes obovate or spathu- 
late, glabrate above. Wool of the calyx white. 
2. A. sarmentosa (Carm ? Lin. Trans. 11, p. 20) ; stem slender, trail- 
ing, and creeping ; leaves scattered, leaflets in 3-5 pairs, sharply serrate, 
nearly glabrous above, silky beneath ; heads globose; calyx-tube obco- 
nical, villous, armed with 2-4 barbed bristles. DC. 1. c. H. § Z./ 1718. 
Has. Hott. Holl. Berg, #.& Z./ (Herb. Sond.) 
A slender plant, with the inflorescence and nearly the foliage of Poterium San- 
guisorba, Leaves 3 inches long, with a pair of lanceolate, adnate stipules at base, 
a longish petiole, very small or depauperated lower leaflets ; the upper 6-7 
lines long, 3 lines wide. Peduncles 5—6 inches long, bearing a head 4-5 lines in 
diameter. Cal.-lobes ovato-lanceolate. Whether this be Carmichael’s plant, I can- 
not say. 
VII. ALCHEMILLA, Tournef. 
Flowers bisexual. Calyx-tube urceolate, constricted in the throat 
with an annular disc ; limb 8-parted, in two rows, the outer lobes” 
shorter, sometimes very small, with imbricate «stivation, deciduous. 
Petals none. Stamens 1-4, inserted on the annular dise. Carpels 1-4, 
in the base of the calyx-tube, substipitate, uniovulate ; styles basal, 
filiform ; stigmata capitellate. Achenia 1-2, in the calyx-tube. Endl. 
Gen. 6370. DC. Prods app. FBGe= $~ = 
Small herbaceous } Fr nial, natives of the temperate zone, uni- 
versally dienegaal pen a yl Hee or reniform in seats, lake ae 
parted, or simply crenate, rarely pinnati-partite. Stipules adnate. Flowers minute, 
green, Be Reve a ae or Siete: Name from the Arabic alkemelyeh. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES. 
Villous ; leaves reniform, short-stalked, crenate, obscurely lobed ... (1) Capensis. 
Glabrescent ; lvs. long-stalked, deeply 5~7 lobed, the lobes toothed 
above ... . ster tee ee (2) elongata. 
. we Ds pensis (Thunb. Cap. 153); stems trailing, filiform, villous ; 
_ leaves short-petioled, reniform, with 3-5, very shallow, rounded, bluntly — 
erenate lobes, villoso-pilose; racemes axillary, interrupted, with leafy 
bracts. DC. Prod. 2, 589. Lam. Ill. t.86, f.2. Bed Z.) 1714. 
Has. Subalpine places, about Table Mountain; Vanstaadensberg, Uit., and on 
the Winterberg, HZ. 42.’ Blauwberg and Tigerberg; and near Bontjes River, 
Zuureberg, Dreye/ (Herb. Sd., D., Hk., Th.) cupieeeats S 
Stems 1-2 feet long, many from the crown, spreading widely. Petioles but half 
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