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stalk. Upper leaves three-foliate : leaflets M to 3 by J^ 

 to l}i inches, obovate-oblong with cuneate base, closely 

 and deeply serrate, with broadly triangular sharp or blunt 

 teeth. Stipules large. Corymb branches much forked. 

 t. 100. Wight Ic. 990. 



In open grass land common. Fyson 578,727, 2077 2112. 

 Bourne 918, 1066. 



Very variable in size and hairiness. Glabrous specimens from Kodai- 

 kanal are very similar to P. fragarioides L, but the teeth are not so sharp. 



This name was given (D.C. Prod. ii. 584) to the Nilgiri plant. The 

 species should perhaps be reduced to P. fragarioides L. which occurs all 

 over northern Asia and Europe. 



ALCHEMILLA. f.b.i. 51 xiii. 



Lady's-mantle. 

 Small herbs with trailing stems and long stalked 

 roundish leaves, peculiar in their very regular rounded 

 lobing and the strong palmate nervation and fanwise 

 folding ; and characterised by the small greenish flowers 

 of four sepals, no petals, and one to four inferior carpels 

 enclosed in the calyx-tube. 



Species about 60. Mostly from the Andes of Central 

 America from Mexico to north Chili. A few in the temperate 

 zone of the northern hemisphere, mountains of India, Ceylon 

 Madagascar, South Africa and Java. Absent from northerri 

 India, south of Kashmir, Australia and temperate North 

 America. 



Some of the species on the Peruvian Andes show marked adaptation 

 to the conditions of mountain life : they grow in tufts with small leaves 

 closely appressed to the stem, as woolly points resembling the Horsetails. 



Alchcmilla indica Gard. ; F.B.L ii 361, XIII 2 ; Indian 

 Lady's-mantle. Rootstock woody; stem slender, i/io 

 inch thick, trailing in grass, covered with soft hairs. 

 Leaf-stalk I to 2 inches ; stipules ^ inch connected into a 

 tube with oblong acute tips. Blades circular and deeply 

 cordate (or kidney-shaped) very evenly five to seven- 

 lobed ; the lobes rounded finely toothed ; glabrous above, 



