PotentillaJ] LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) 349 



leaflets J-l in., thin, bright green on both surfaces, 3-multifid ; petiole -3 in. ; 

 stipules silky, acute. Flowers l-l in. diam. ; peduncle ^-3 in., naked. Calyx gla- 

 brous ; lobes ovate, acute ; bracteoles broadly elliptic, sometimes exceeding the calyx- 

 lobes. Petals orbicular-obcordate, yellow. Achenes minute, clothed with very long 

 flexuous hairs. 



SECT. III. Potentilla proper. Stamens numerous. Achenes not con- 

 cealed by the long hairs of the receptacle. 



* Hoot perennial. 



f Leaves interruptedly pinnate, the alternate one or more pairs much smaller. 

 (See also 19 P. leuconota.) 



12. P. ZKooniana, Wight Ic. t. 233 ; hirsute or villous, leaflets very 

 many pair elliptic obtuse serrate paler beneath, the smaller orbicular or cuneate, 

 flowers panicled or corymbose, bracteoles broad toothed, achenes quite smooth, 

 style very short ventral. Lehm. Revis. Potentill. 54. R. polyphylla and bar- 

 bata, Wall. Cat. 1030, 1026 ; Lehm. I. c. 53 ; Monogr. Suppl. 1, t. 5. P. sor- 

 dida, Klotzsch. inReis. Pr. Wald. Sot. t. 9. 



Temperate Himalaya ; from KUMAON, alt. 11,500 ft. to SIKKIM, alt. 10-12,000 ft. 

 KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-5000 ft. CEYLON, Horton plains, alt. 7000 ft. 



A tall erect-branched leafy plant in Ceylon and at the lower elevations of N. India, 

 but becoming stunted with almost prostrate flowering-branches at 12,000 ft., very 

 variable in amount of hairiness, and sometimes having a few of the early leaves 

 silky; rarely (P. polyphylla} glabrate with appressed hairs. Leaves 6-10 in., narrow, 

 pinnate nearly to the base, the leaflets smaller downwards; larger leaflets, | 1^- in., 

 smaller ^- in., all sessile, membranous, coriaceous at higher elevations, brown when 

 dry ; petiole slender, silky ; lower stipules usually membranous, upper leafy and 

 toothed or lobed. Inflorescence from an open dichotomously branched lax panicle 

 with slender pedicels, to a short almost umbellate corymb with stiff stout pedicels (P. 

 barbata). Flowers ^~f in. diam. Calyx villous, lobes ovate, acute ; bracts larger or 

 smaller than the lobes, ovate or cuneate, usually 3 -toothed or -tobed. Petals obovate- 

 orbicular. Achenes on an elevated hairy receptacle, quite without wrinkles. I can 

 find no characters upon which to found definable varieties of this plant, which by its 

 occasional silky leaves shows an affinity with P.fulgens. 



13. P. fulg-ens. Wall MSS. in Hook. Sot. Mag.undert. 2700 ; softly silky, 

 leaflets very many pair elliptic oblong or obovate obtuse sharply serrate clothed 

 beneath with silvery hairs, interposed pairs minute, flowers panicled or 

 corymbose, bracteoles quite entire or 2-3-fid, achenes small smooth, style short 

 slender ventral. Lehm. Revis. Potentill. 54. P. splendens, Wall, in Hook. Bot. 

 Mag. t. 2700 ; Cat. 1017 ; Don Prodr. 330 : Sweet Brit. Fl. Oard. t. 19.1. P. 

 Siemersiana, Lehm. Ind. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 1820, 8 ; Pugill. i. 31. P. lineata, 

 Trevir. in Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 534 ; Reich. Icon Exot. t. 8. P. Naspata, Ham. 

 MSS. 



Temperate Himalaya; from KUNAWAR, alt. 6-7000 ft. to SIKKIM, alt. 7-13,000 ft. 

 KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-5000 ft. 



As variable as P. Mooniana, and in a very similar manner; and further almost 

 connected with it by var. intermedia ; but usually more robust, with more copious 

 spreading hairs on the petiole and stem, and with the brilliant silvery clothing of the 

 under surface of the leaves and inflorescence sometimes extending to the upper sur- 

 face. Rootstock very stout. Stems 6-24 in., stout, ascending or erect, leafy. Leaves 

 2-6 in. ; larger leaflets -l in., crowded or not, sometimes with deeply impressed 

 nerves above, at others quite flat, teeth very numerous and acute ; petiole rather stout ; 

 stipules and inflorescence and petals as in P. Mooniana, but calyx usually very silvery, 



