Plants. of the Punjab. 465 
Heres, UNBRANCHED, WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE COMPOUND LEAVES. 
Potentilla 
Leschenaultiana, 
RosacEm. 
Be, B. lew. 850: 
Himalaya, 
6-12,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Potentilla 
fragarioides, 
RosacEs. 
Babe. W, 350. 
Himalaya, 
4-7,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Kashmir. 
Baluchistan. 
Potentilla Clarkei, 
Potentilla 
microphylla, 
Rosacea. 
BB. A, 1362. 
Himalaya, 
10-14,000 ft. 
Marali near Baghi. 
Potentilla multifida, 
Rosacea. 
1 gd el Rr is 545 
Kashmir, 
10-16,000 ft. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
rootstock short, stout, hairy, hairs long, spreading, 
silky, leaves 1-10 in., pinnate without alternating minute 
leaflets, leaflets 5-7, 4-1 in., usually 5, ovate with a broad 
tip, coarsely toothed, white beneath, leaf stalk slender, 
stipules lower thin, entire, upper leafy, toothed, flowers 
4-2 in., yellow, rarely white, in flat-topped custers on stalks 
2-18 in. long, calyx hairy or silky, lobes trilangular, bracte- 
oles linear, petals heart-shaped with the broad end out- | 
wards, achenes minutely wrinkled; for other characters 
see the last species. 
very like the last species, but leaflets not white beneath. 
sec Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 
very small, forming dense moss-like tufts, dotted with 
bright yellow star-like flowers, leaves very small and crown- 
ed, only easily differentiated by a magnifying glass, 
silky or nearly smooth, leaves } in., leaflets 7,-34, in., 
divided into 8-5 lobes, leaf stalk thread-like, stipules 
comparatively large, blunt, thin, flowers 4-§ in., bright- 
yellow, 1 or 2 on a flowr stalk, slightly longer than 
the leaves, calyx lobes sharp- or blunt-pointed, bracte- 
oles oblong, petals projecting much beyond the calyx, 
round or ovate with a broad tip, stamens 380-40, achenes 
in around head on a woolly receptacle, many, minute, 
smooth, styles very short, ventral; for other characters 
see the last described species. 
stems many,rootstock short, leaves 4-2 in. diam., digi- 
tately compound with 5 leaflets or pinnate with longer leaf 
stalk, leaflets linear-oblong or ovate with a broad tip, pin- 
nately divided with linear or lanceolate segments, margins 
recurved, white felted beneath, flowers }-4 in. diam., yel- 
low in close or open flat-topped clusters or solitary, calyx 
silky, lobes ovate, short-pointed, bracteoles linear, oblong, 
blunt, petals cireular-ovate with a broad tip, notched, 
achenes many, smooth, minute on a hairy receptacle, style 
terminal ; for other characters see the last described specieg, 
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