378 xlviii. rosacea (oliver). [Alchemilla. 



2. A. abyssinica, Fresen. in Mus. Senck. ii. 161. Branches villous. 

 Leaves subrotundate-reniform, 7-lobed, lobes obovate-cuneate nearly 

 reaching half way to the petiole, truncate mucronate-serrate, the teeth 

 curved, bristle-pointed, somewhat silky-villous, the nerves beneath and 

 petioles densely villous. Racemes axillary, simple or forked. Four 

 outer calyx-teeth smaller, each with a projecting hairy t apical tuft. 

 Carpels 2, one suppressed at length. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Riippel. 



Description taken from the Memoir cited above. I have not seen any AbyssiniaL 

 specimens exactly according with it. Alchemilla JBachiti, Jlochst. (Schweinf., Beitr. 

 FJ. iEthiop. 22) I do not know. Both A. pedata and A. cryptantha are said to be 

 from the Bachit mountains, and it may be a syuonym of one of these. 



3. A. tenuicaulis, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 191. Low 

 herb hardly rising above 2 or 3 in., with slender prostrate branches, 

 thinly villous with spreading hairs and rooting at the nodes. Leaves 

 rotundate-reniform %- or 7-lobed, lobes rotundate, broadly cuneate 

 within, about \ the radius of the leaf, broadly serrate, thinly pilose 

 above, more distinctly so beneath, firmly membranous, radical leaves 

 J- j in. broad more or less. Petioles patent-pilose. Stipules toothed 

 at the apex. Flowers in bracteate racemes, fascicled in the axils; 

 bracts palmately toothed, broadly cuneate below. Calyx-lobes ovate, 

 the outer slightly exceeding or equalling the inner. Stamens 4. Car- 

 pels 5 stipitate, 2 or 3 at length abortive. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, 7500 ft., and Camaroons mountain, 7000 ft., 

 Mann! 



This species I take to be nearly allied to A. abyssinica, Fres., only known to me by 

 description. 



4. A. Gunae, Schweinf. in Verh. Zool. Bot. Gesell. Wien. 1868,- 668. 

 Perennial with divaricately spreading silky branches. Leaves on long 

 petioles, broadly reniform, more than twice as broad as long, 5-7-lobate 

 to J of their radius, lobes broadly semi-orbicular with 6 or 7 connivent 

 serratures, pubescent or glabrate above, silky with long appressed 

 hairs beneath. Stipules broadly ovate, entire, membranous. Flowers 

 not seen. 



Nile _ Land. Near Debra Tabor, Steudner. 

 Description taken from Dr. Schweinfurth's Memoir. 



5. A. Rothii, Oliv. Branches elongate, probably prostrate and 

 rooting at the nodes, thinly pilose with spreading hairs. Leaves ro- 

 tundate, the sinus either narrow or the margins overlapping, undulate- 

 lobate, the depression in the centre of each shallow lobe nearly or quite 

 as deep as that between the lobes, scarcely exceeding the serratures in 

 depth, the margin uniformly crenate- serrate with 9-12 teeth. to the 

 median lobes, thinly pilose above, more distinctly beneath, 1 in. or less 

 in diameter; petiole patent-pilose,. J-l in. or longer. Stipules deeply 

 toothed. Flowers in axillary bracteate racemes exceeding the leaves ; 

 bracts herbaceous, deeply toothed. Pedicels slender, spreading or de- 

 curved, equalling or exceeding the flower. Calyx-tube hirsute-pilose, 



