Geum.~\ LI. ROSACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 343 



Stems 1-3 ft., stout or slender, from a woody rootstock. Terminal leaflets of ra- 

 dical leaves 2- 3 in. diam., orbicular, lobed and crenate ; lateral much smaller, often 

 minute, sessile, cut and lobed ; cauline leaves sessile, broad, variously cut and 

 lobed ; stipules leafy, lobed and toothed. Flowers* ^-f in. diam. ; peduncle slender. 

 Petals yellow, narrowly obovate, equalling or exceeding the calyx-lobes, which are 

 acuminate and reflexed in fruit. Achenes spreading and recurved, hispid with long 

 hairs ; awn \ in., bent, hooked at the tip ; receptacle villous. C. B. Clarke has a 

 very robust form from Kashmir (Alibad, 9,000 ft.). 



SECT. II. Sieversia. Style straight in fruit. 



2. G-. elatum, Wall. Cat. 711 ; sparingly hairy, leaves pinnatisect, leaflets 

 very many short lobed and crenate, flowers erect, achenes hispid. Sieversia 

 elata, Royle III. 207, t. 39. 



Subalpine and Alpine Himalaya; from KASHMIR, alt. 9-12,000 ft. to SIKKIM, alt 

 12-15,000 ft. 



Rootstock stout, woody. Leaves 4-12 in., linear-oblong; leaflets -1 in., close and 

 imbricating or scattered, uniform or the alternate smaller, terminal orbicular, all 

 lobed and coarsely crenate, upper or all adnate by a broad base. Flowering stems "with 

 few leaves and 1-6 flowers. Flowers -1^ in. diam.. Calyx-lobes deltoid-ovate, 

 acute, silky, spreading in fruit. Petals orbicular, yellow, much exceeding the calyx. 

 Carpels sessile on the base of the calyx, clothed with long silky hairs. Achenes ellip- 

 soid, acute at both ends, hairy ; style | in., slender. 



VAB. humile, Eoyle 1. c. ; smaller, 1 -flowered, Nipal Kumaon and Sikkim, alt. 

 12-1 5,000 ft. G. adnatum, Wall. Cat. 712. Potentilla adnata, Wall. MSS.; Lehm. 

 Pugill. ix. 9; Revis. PotentUl 47, t. 17. 



10. FRAG A HI A, Linn. Strawberry. 



Perennial scapigerous herbs, with creeping stolons. Leaves digitately 3- 

 rarely 5-foliolate very rarely pinnate or simple ; stipules adnate to the petiole. 

 Floivers white or yellow, often polygamous. Calyx persistent, with 5 bracteoles 

 at its base ; lobes 5, valvate in bud. Petals 5. Stamens many, persistent. Car- 

 pels many, on a convex receptacle ; styles ventral, persistent ; ovule 1, ascend- 

 ing. Achenes many, minute, sunk in the surface of a large fleshy receptacle. 

 DISTRIB. Temp, and mountain regions of the N. hemisphere, S. America, Sand- 

 wich Islands, Bourbon ; species 6 or 7. 



* Floiuers yellow. 



1. P. indie a, Andr. Sot. Rep. t. 479 ; very slender, leaflets 3-5 obovate 

 serrate crenate or toothed, peduncles solitary axillary 1-flowered, bracteoles 

 large cuneate-obovate 3-5-fid. Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 520 ; Wight $ Am. Prodr. 

 300 ; Wight Ic. t. 989 ; Bot. Reg. t. 61 ; Wall Cat. 1236, excl. No. 3 for the 

 most part. F. malayana, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 520. F. nilgirica, Zenker PI. Ind. 

 Dec. 1. 7,t. 9. F. arguta, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1237. F. Roxburghii, Wight 8f 

 Am. Prodr. 300, name only. Duchesnea fragarioides, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 x. 373 ; Miq. Fl Ind. Bat. i. pt. 1, 372, et D. chrysantha, Miq. ibid. D. fra- 

 giformis, Don Prodr. 233. Potentilla denticulosa and Wallichiana, Ser. in DC. 

 Prodr. ii. 573, 574. P. Durandii, Torr. $ Gr. Fl N. Am. 1. 444. P. fragarige- 

 iblia, Klotzsch in Reis. Pr. Waldem. Sot. t. 10. P. trifida, Lehm. in Otto 

 Garten, und Blumenzeit. vii. 263 ; Revis. PotentUl 175. 



Temperate and subtropical HIMALAYA and along the foot of the hills from the PUN- 

 JAB to ASSAM, ascending to 7500 ft. in the east and 8000 ft. in the west. KHASTA 

 MTS. NILGHIRI MTS. PENANG (Roxburgh] DISTEIB. Afghanistan, Mountains of the 

 Malay Islands, Japan, Corea, and Formosa. 



More or less silkily hairy. Rootstock stout, with many long slender prostrate stems. 

 Leaves distant; leaflets rarely 5, 1-1^ in., petiolulate or sessile, membranous, simply 



