292 ROSACEE (Harv.) [ Poteriwm. 
inch long, leaves once and half broader than long, sometimes evidently, sometimes 
obscurely lobed, thin, pale green, sometimes sparingly, generally copiously villous. 
Stipules broadly ovate, crenate. Racemes simple, longer than the leaves, 
2. A. elongata (E. & Z.! 1715); stems trailing, angular, with ap- 
pressed pubescence; leaves long-petioled, fanshaped, deeply 5-7 lobed 
or palmatifid, glabrous or thinly puberulous beneath, the lobes obtuse, 
coarsely crenato-serrate near the apex; panicles axillary, much branched, 
corymbose. A. palmata, E. Mey! in Herb. Drege. 
agg Klipplaat River and Katriviersberg, EZ. ¢ Z.! Witbergen, Drege/ (Herb. 
Mach more glabrous and more robust than A. Capensis, with palmatifid long- 
stalked leaves. Stems 2 feet long or more. Petivles 2-24 inches long ; leaves 14 
as broad as long, the lobes cut at least half way to the base, round topped. 
VIII. POTERIUM, L. 
Flowers polygamous or moncecious, the females in the upper part of 
the spike. Calyz-tube turbinate, constricted in the throat with an annu- 
lar disc ; limb 4-parted, the segments imbricate. Petals none, Stamens 
20-30, on the annular disc. Carpels 2-3, enclosed in the calyx-tube, 
‘uniovulate ; styles terminal, exserted ; stigma pencilled. » Achenia con- 
cealed in the hardened or fleshy, 4-angled calyx-tube. Endl. Gen. 6374. 
DC. Prod. 2, p. 594. : : 
Herbs, suffrutices, or shrubs, natives of the warmer parts of the north temperate 
zone, sometimes spiny. Leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets serrate. Stipules adnate. 
Flowers small, in dense terminal spikes, bracteate at base, and bibracteolate. Name 
poterium, a drinking vessel or drink ; formerly an ingredient in cool tankards. 
1, P. sanguisorba (Linn. Sp. 1411); herbaceous, the angular stems 
and leaves glabrous ; leaflets ovate or roundish, sharply toothed ; lower 
flowers of the globose heads male, upper female. 2. Bot. t. 860. 
Has, About Simon’s Bay, 0. Wright. (Herb. T.C.D.). 
Introduced from Europe. Leaves chiefly radical, of many leaflets. Stems 12-18 
inches high, with few, distant, and smaller leaves, bFanched ; each branch ending 
In a globular head of flowers. ; 
the hardened and variously sculptured, rarely baccate, calyx-tube 
yx-tube. 
Endl. Gen. 6379. DC. Prod. 2, P. 595. | er 
nail shrubs or suffrutices, natives of South Africa, Leaves properly digitately 
3-foliolate, often appearing simple or unifoliolate, either from evecatenhos of the 
three leaflets into one, or from the lateral leaflets bei very minute or abortive ; 
rarely bifoliolate, the medial leaflets disappearing. Stipules adnate with the petiole, 
