Potentilla.'] LI. ROSACEJJ. (J. D. Hooker.) 353 



nearly orbicular in outline flat cut in rather a fan-shaped manner, glabrous above, 

 silky on the'nerves beneath. 



VAB. 5. latiloba, Wall. Cat. 1010; leaves 2-4 in., leaflets orbicular in outline flat 

 toothed from below the middle to the tip, nearly glabrous beneath, scape slender 2-3- 

 flowered sometimes decurved in fruit. P. microphylla, Boyle III. 208, t. 41, f. 2. 



VAE. achilleafolia ; leaves 1-2 in., leaflets most densely imbricate pointing obliquely 

 forwards and upwards almost perpendicularly to the plane of the leaf very silky 

 beneath. 



VAB. commutata; leaves 3-4 in., leaflets f in. separate flat broadly oblong pinna- 

 tifid to the middle, lobes slightly falcate glabrous above sparingly silky beneath, scapes 

 shorter than the leaves, calyx-lobes and bracteoles obtuse. P. commutata. Lehm. Pu- 

 ff ill. in. 16; Eevis. Potentill. 65. Kumaon, Wall. Herb.; Bargi Kang Pass, Sir. $ 

 Winterb. The most developed form, approaching in size and habit P. peduncularis, 

 var. obscura, but widely differing in the fruit. 



22. P. bifurca, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 707 ; small, slender, 

 clothed with appressed silky hairs, stem leafy, leaflets 5-15 oblong entire 2-3-fid 

 or -partite, flowers small solitary or cyinose on slender peduncles, petals much 

 exceeding the calyx, achenes glabrous except at the base, style slender ventral. 

 P. Moorcroftii, Wall. Cat. 1014 ; Lehm. Eevis. Potentill. 23, t. 3. P. glauca, 

 Comb, in Jacq. Voy. Sot. 54, t. 66. P. bidens, Bertol. Misc. Sot. xxiv. 16, t. 4. 



WESTERN TIBET, alt. 10-14,000 ft., and Tibetan border of LAHUL, KUMAON, and 

 SLKKIM, alt. 13-17,000 ft. DISTBIB. Soongaria, Altai Mts., Mongolia, Caucasus, 

 Taurus. 



Rootstock long, slender, branched, tortuous. Stems 4-8 in., suberect or diffuse. 

 Leaves -2 in. ; leaflets -f in., usually linear-oblong, not toothed or serrate, obtuse 

 or acute, sessile by a broad or narrow base ; petiole slender ; stipules acute or acumi- 

 nate. Flowers ^ in. diam. ; peduncle ^--1 in., naked, flexuous. Calyx-lobes broad, 

 rather obtuse. Petals obovate, yellow. Achenes few, large for the size of the plant, 

 somewhat triangular, obtuse, quite smooth, exceeding the hairs of the elevated 

 receptacle. 



23. P. coriandrlfolia, Don Prodr. 232 ; sparsely hairy or glabrate, 

 rootstock very thick, leaflets 6-co pair broadly ovate deeply cut into spreading 

 linear or subulate hair-pointed lobes, flowering stems ascending and prostrate, 

 flowers subumbellately corymbosa, petals obcordate, achenes nearly glabrous, 

 style slender terminal. P. meifolia, Wall. Cat. 1011; Lehm. Eevis. Potentill. 

 29 ; Monog. Suppl. i. t. 1. 



Central and Eastern Alpine Himalaya ; NIPAL, Wallich ; SIKKIM, Jongri, alt. 

 13,000 ft., C. B. Clarke. 



Rootstock as thick as the thumb, inclined. Leaves excessively numerous, spread- 

 ing, 2-4 in. ; leaflets ^-| in broad, opposite and alternate, sessile, glabrous except a few- 

 hairs beneath and at the tip of every segment, cut almost to the midrib in a fan-like 

 manner, primary segments again divided, ultimate ones acute ; petiole with appressed 

 hairs ; stipules subulate. Flowering stems 4-6 in., numerous, declinate and then 

 ascending, with appressed hairs and a few much reduced leaves. Flowers \ in. diam. 

 on slender pedicels. Calyx glabrate ; lobes triangular, acute ; bracteoles linear-ob- 

 long, acute. Petals twice as long as the calyx, yellow. Achenes smooth ; receptacle 

 hairy. The leaflets of the Sikkim specimens are much more finely divided than those 

 of the Nipal ones. 



24. P. multifida, Linn. ; Soiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 710 ; stems many and 

 petiole and leaves beneath softly white-torn entose without silky hairs, leaves 

 pinnate or subdigitately 3-5-foliolate glabrous above, leaflets linear-oblong or 

 obovate pinnatifld nearly to the base, segments linear or lanceolate ascending, mar- 



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