lasclikan and Arctic American P. villosa, a plant I do not 

 know. So that one cannot help suspecting that P. insignis, 

 argyrophylla, macrantha, leucochroa, and villosa may be all 

 one and the same thing, modified by soil and situation. In 

 the meanwhile this is certainly P. insignis. 



It is a hardy perennial, requiring the same treatment as 

 the old Potentilla atrosanguinea, flowering from June to 

 September. It was raised from seeds received from the East 

 India Company through Dr. Royle, and seems very common 

 in the North of India, as it is in nearly every collection of 

 seeds received from that part of the world. 



It may be the means of producing some beautiful hybrids, 

 with either P. atrosanguinea or P. nepalensis ; and we should 

 expect that they will some day rival the hybrid Calceolarias, 

 now so common. 



