350 LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) [Potentilla. 



lobes acute ; bracteoles very variable. Achenes on an elevated hairy receptacle. y 

 Reichenbach figures the petals as r^tuse ; they seem hardly so in our specimens, nor are 

 they so represented in Bot. Mag. Lehmann's name P. Siemersiana published in 1820 has 

 the priority, but is suppressed by the author himself (Kevis. 55). 



VAR. intermedia; leaflets fewer more oblong slightly silvery beneath, calyx green 

 sparsely silky or hairy as in P. Mooniana. Sikkim at Jongri, alt. 13,000 ft., C. B. 

 Clarke. 



14. P. anserina, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 707 ; rootstock sending 

 out long racemes, leaves lanceolate, leaflets 6-10 pair with minute alternating 

 ones obovate or oblong deeply sharply toothed silvery with white hairs be- 

 neath, scapes from the rootstock and from nodes on the runners slender naked 

 1 -flowered, achenes many. P. pseudo-anserina, Bertol. Misc. xxiv. 15, t. 3. 



WESTERN TIBET, PITI, &c., alt. 12-16,000 ft., Thomson; Balti prov. of KASHMIR, 

 alt. 7700 ft., C. B. Clarke. DISTRIB. Kashgar, N. Asia, and from Persia westward to 

 the Atlantic, N. America, Australia. 



Rootstock very short ; racemes a foot and more long. Leaves forming a spreading 

 tuft from the crown, 2-10 in., green above, silky beneath ; leaflets -2 in., sessile* 

 smaller ones often minute lanceolate and entire ; stipules membranous. Flowers 

 ^1 in. diam. ; scape 16 in. Caly x- lobes lanceolate, acuminate ; bracteoles lobed or cut. 

 Petals yellow, orbicular. Achenes numerous, smooth, on a villous elevated receptacle. 



ft Leaves not interruptedly pinnate (alternate leaflets not smaller except some- 

 times in 19. P. leuconota). 



15. P. Leschenaultiana, Ser. in DC. Prodr. ii. 584 ; robust, villous, 

 hairs long spreading soft and silky, leaflets 5-7 obovate or broadly elliptic obtuse 

 coarsely toothed white beneath, flowers corymbose, petals obcordate, achenes on 

 an elevated receptacle wrinkled, style subterminal. Wight Ic. t. 990 ; Wight 8f 

 Am. Prodr. 301 ; Lehm. Monogr. Potentill. Suppl. 1, t. 3 ; Revis. 41. P. Gra- 

 hamiana, Wight Cat. 



Temperate Western Himalaya, from KASHMIR to KUMAON. NILGHIRI HILLS 

 abundant. 



Rootstock short, stout. Leaves 1-10 in.; leaflets usually 5, sometimes 9 or even 

 11, -1 in., membranous or rather coriaceous, teeth acute or obtuse ; petiole slender ; 

 stipules, lower membranous entire, upper often leafy and toothed. Flowering stems 

 erect or ascending, 2-18 in., usually corymbosely branched above, the corymbs lax and 

 spreading or close. Flowers subsessile or long-pedicelled, 3 in. diam., yellow, 

 rarely white. Calyx villous or silky, lobes triangular or oblong, acute or subacute ; 

 bracteoles linear, oblong, acute. Petals longer than the calyx, orbicular obcordate or 

 more obcuneate. Carpels numerous. Aclwnes on an elevated and often globose hairy 

 receptacle, variable in size, minutely wrinkled. A most variable plant x often a road- 

 side weed. 



VAR. bannehalensis ; tall, more slender, copiously branched above, leaflets silvery 

 white (rarely green) beneath, flowers 1 in. diam. on slender pedicels, calyx silky, lobes 

 very acute. P. bannehalensis, Camb. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 52, t. 64 ; Lehm. Revis. 

 Potentill. 41. Kumaonto Kashmir, alt. 6-1 2, 000 ft. 



16. P. frag-arioides, Linn. ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 38 ; villous or hairy, 

 hairs soft silky, leaflets 5-7 elliptic or oblong obtuse coarsely toothed hirsute 

 but not white or silvery beneath, flowers corymbose, petals obovate or obcordate, 

 achenes on an elevated receptacle, style subterminal. Lehm. Revis. Potentill. 42 ; 

 Maximov. Diagn. Dec. xv. 158. P. Gerardiana, Wall. Cat. 1023 ; Lehm. I.e. 42. 

 P. variabilis, Klotzsch in Rets. Pr. Waldem. Sot. t. 11. P. Munroana, Lehm. 

 Ind. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 1849, 7 ; Revis. Potentill. 40, t. 13. 



Temperate Himalaya, from WAZERISTAN, Stewart, to KUMAON and BHOTAN. 

 DISTRIB. Siberia to China and Japan. 



