Potentilla.'] LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) 347 



mens short. Carpels about 20. Achenes many, rounded, hard, slightly wrinkled ; 

 receptacle villous. 



6. P. purpurea, Royle III. 208, t. 40, f. 3 (Sibbaldia) ; polygamous, 

 leaflets 5 obovate-cuneate 3-fid, flowers purple 5-merous. 



N. "W. HIMALAYA, Royle. 



I know this plant only from the figure and meagre description published by Royle, 

 who gives no habitat, and I suppose it to be founded on a drawing of a native artist. 

 The figure represents a procumbent branching rooting flexuous rhizome or stem 4 in. 

 long, clothed with stipular sheaths, and bearing short lateral branches with tufts of 

 leaves and flowers. Leaves 3 f in. long, hairy; leaflets 5, sessile, 3- in., obovate-cu- 

 neate, 2-3-fid at the apex, green above, paler beneath. Flowers | in. diam., solitary 

 or twin from the axils of the leaves, peduncle naked. Calyx hairy, lobes triangular- 

 ovate ; bracteoles linear. Petals longer than the calyx, narrowly obovate, pale purple. 

 Disk dark purple. Stamens 5. Achenes ovoid, smooth. 



*** Leaves pinnate. 



7. P. albifolia, Wall. Cat. 1018 ; stems very slender spreading, leaves 

 pinnate, leaflets few subopposite or alternate obovate coarsely toothed white- 

 toinentose beneath, stipules large, flowers solitary axillary, achenes many, style 

 short ventral. Sibbaldia potentilloides, Camb. in Jacq. Voy. JBot. 54, t. 67. 



Subalpine Himalaya from KASHMIB, alt, 8-10,000 ft., to SIKKIM, alt. 12-15,000 ft., 

 J. D. H., C. B. Clarke. 



Rootstock stout. Stems many, 6-12 in., flexuous, branched, pubescent. Lower 

 leaves 2-4 in. ; leaflets 5-9, very unequal, -1 in., orbicular or obovate, lateral 

 smaller, lower smallest, green and glabrous above, snow-white beneath ; petiole very 

 slender ;' stipules sometimes |-| in., loose, sheathing, brown, acute, adnate for half 

 their length to the petiole. Flowers % in. diam., on slender peduncles 1-2 in. Calyx 

 white-tomentose, lobes triangular; bracteoles linear-oblong. Petals small, oblong, 

 obtuse, yellow. Stamens 5. Achenes numerous, large, deeply furrowed ; receptacle 

 tomentose. 



- SECT. II. Trichothalamus. Stamens numerous. Flowers sometimes 

 dioecious. Receptacle with long erect stiff hairs, which entirely conceal the 

 achenes. 



* Leaves pinnate. 



8. P. fruticosa, Linn. ; Boiss. Flor. Orient, ii. 703 ; dioecious, shrubby, 

 silky, leaflets 3-7 oblong-lanceolate or linear quite entire apiculate,, flowers soli- 

 tary, petals obovate exceeding the calyx, achenes furnished with a long pencil 

 of silky hairs, style short subterminal. P. rigida, Wall. Cat. 1009 ; Lehm. Revis. 

 Potentill. 19, t. 1. P. Arbuscula, Don Prodr. 256 (nepalensis 229) ; Wall. PI. 

 As. Rar. iii. 16, t. 228 ; Lehm. Revis. Potentill. 18. P. reticulata, Bertol. Piant. 

 Nuov. As. i. 6, t. 2. 



Temperate and subalpine Himalaya, from KASHMIR, alt. 8-12,000 ft., to SIKKIM, 

 alt. 12-16,000 ft. DISTRIB. N. Asia and Europe to the Pyrenees and England. 



A much branched rigid robust erect or prostrate leafy low or tall shrub, 6 in.-4 ft. 

 Leaves imbricating, ^ 1 in.; leaflets 3--^ in., coriaceous; petiole slender; stipules 

 large, membranous, obtuse. Flowers usually solitary, f-1^ in. diam, ; peduncle rarely 

 1 in., silky; bracteoles entire or 2-fid. Calyx-lobes ovate or lanceolate. Petals broadly 

 obovate. Stamens many. Achenes numerous, minute, with long hairs, and sunk in 

 the long hairs of the receptacle. 



VAE. glabrata ; very short, glabrate, leaflets lanceolate. Sikkim, alt. 15,000 ft. 



VAB. ochreata ; Lehm. ; slender, very silky, almost white, leaflets much-reduced 

 linear-larceolate with revolute margins, flowers smaller. P. ochreata, Lindl. in Wall. 



