Potmtilla.] XLvrn. rosace je (oliver). 377 



opposed equalling or shorter than the upper leaves, at length recurved. 

 Bracteoles of epicalyx lanceolate or oblong, nearly equalling the calyx. 

 Petals yellow obovate or oblanceolate, scarcely equalling the calyx. — 

 Lehm. Potent. 193 (where synonymy is given). 



Nile Land. White Nile, Consul Petherick! Sennaar, Cierikowshi. Nubia, 

 Ehrenberg, Dr. Bromfield! Kordofan, (Schweinf. et Asch. Enum.) 

 Widely spread in Europe and Asia ; occurs also at the Cape. 



7. ALCHEMILLA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 621. 



Flowers minute, hermaphrodite. Calyx- tube infundibuliform, per- 

 sistent, limb 8-10-partite, lobes biseriate, equal or unequal. Petals 0. 

 Stamens (1-) 4 or 5, alternating with the inner calyx-lobes. Margin 

 of disk partially closing the throat of calyx. Carpels 1-5, included in 

 the calyx-tube, style lateral or basal, stigma exserted capitate. Achenes 

 1 or more, enclosed in the calyx-tube. — Herbs, usually perennial, pro- 

 cumbent or erect, often branching from the rootstock. Leaves alter- 

 nate, rotundate or reniform digitate or palmately lobed, rarely mul- 

 tifid. Stipules sheathing, adnate. Flowers in dense corymbose or 

 loosely panicled cymes or racemose, rarely subsolitary, sessile or pedi- 

 cellate. 



A considerable genus, common to the cooler regions of both hemispheres, especially 

 abundant on the American Andes. None of the following are clearly identifiable with 

 extra-African species. 

 Decumbent or prostrate. 

 Leaves undulate or lobate, lobes not exceeding \ the radius 

 of leaf. 

 Flowers nearly or quite concealed in the axils . . . . \. A. cryptantha. 

 Flowers in axillary racemes or fascicled on distinct pe- 

 duncles. 

 Leaves 7-lobed, lobes obovate-cuneate, nearly 4 of radius. 



Carpels 2 2. A. abyssinica. 



Leaves 5-7-lobed, lobes rotundate, ^ of radius. Sti- 

 pules toothed above. Carpels 5 ....... 3. A. tenuicaulis. 



Leaves 5-7-lobed, lobes semicircular, | of radius. 



Stipules entire, membranous 4. A. Ounce. 



Leaves rotundate undulate, lobes scarcely deeper than 



serratures. Carpels solitary 5. A. Bothri. 



Leaves pedate or 5-7 -partite, median segments obovate . -6. A. pedata. 

 Branches erect or ascending, 1-2 ft. Flowers panicled . . A. elongata (p. 379).* 



1. A. cryptantha, Steud. ; Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 259. Procumbent 

 herb, branches patent-pilose rooting at the lower nodes. Leaves thinly 

 membranous, rotundate-reniform, broadly 5 -lobed, lobes rounded, very 

 obtuse, rather deeply crenate-serrate, usually not extending over \ or £ 

 the radius of the leaf, thinly silky-pilose on both sides, scarcely exceed- 

 ing 1 in. in breadth in our largest leaves. Stipules serrate above or 

 toothed. Flowers concealed within the sheathing stipulate leaf-axils, 

 shortly pedicellate or subsessile. Calyx-tube infundibuliform; outer 

 and inner lobes of limb subequal, ovate-lanceolate acute or outer 

 subacute. Carpels 5 or fewer, shortly stipitate, glabrous. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 



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