Potentitla.'] LI. ROSACE2B. (J. D. Hooker.) 355 



alt. 14-16,000 ft., Thomson. Small forms of this are iindistinguishable in a dry state 

 from those of P. multijida, especially when the leaflets are reduced to 3 or 5 ; its nu- 

 merous forms have many names in Europe, Asia, and America. 



ftf Leaves digitately 5-foliolate, or upper S-foIiolate. (See also states of 

 24. P. multifida, 25. sericea, and 37. nivea). 



26. P. desertorum, Bunge in Ledeb. FL Alt. ii. 257 ; Fl. Ross. ii. 53 ; 

 Ic. t. 337 ; erect, leafy, glandular hairy, radical leaves long-petioled 5-foliolate, 

 leaflets sessile membranous obovate coarsely crenate, cauline stipules large lan- 

 ceolate quite entire, flowers in capitate leafy heads, achenes very minute 

 wrinkled, styles short subterminal. Lehm. Hems. Potentil. 90. 



Western Himalaya ; in the dry region of KASHMIR and KISHTWAR, alt. 7-9000 ft., 

 Thomson, C. B. Clarke. DISTRIB, Soongaria. 



All parts covered with soft spreading often glandular hairs. Stems tufted on a 

 woody rootstock, soft, erect or ascending. Radical leaves 4-8 in. ; leaflets 1-2 in., 

 entire towards the cuneate base, nerves slender, green on both surfaces ; petiole 

 slender, 2-6 in. ; cauline leaves short-petioled or sessile, 3-foliolate ; stipules ^-f in. 

 Flowers -^ in. diam., sunk amongst the uppermost leaves ; peduncle elongating in 

 fruit, strict and stout. Calyx large, in. long; lobes lanceolate, acute; bracte- 

 oles entire or 3-fid. Petals orbicular-obovate, dark yellow, not much exceeding the 

 calyx. Achenes very numerous, on a globose villous receptacle. P. Kotschyana, 

 Fenzl, of Cilicia, &c., seems to me to be this plant. 



27. P. nepalensis, Hook. Exot. Flor. ii. t. 88 ; more or less clothed 

 with long soft spreading hairs, stem leafy branched, leaves long-petioled 5-folio- 

 late, leaflets obovate or elliptic-obovate acute or obtuse coarsely serrate green, 

 flowers pedicelled in dichotomous panicles, petals obcordate purple, achenes mi- 

 nute wrinkled. Wall. Cat. 1027 ; Lehm. Rems. Potentill. 91. P. bifurcata, 



Wall MSS. P. formosa, Don Prodr. 232; Sweet Brit. FL Gard. t. 136. 

 P. colorata, Lehm. Ind. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 1820. P. coccinea, Hoffm. Brief, 

 auslnd.ii. App. 511. (^-^ ~ J '^ --'-* -^- = **-** -- 

 Pr. Waldem. Hot. t. 13. 



aus Ind. ii. App. 511. (Engl. edit.) P. Gulielmi Waldnieri, Klotzsch in Reis. 

 - i. Hot. t. - ~ 



Western temperate Himalaya, alt. 5-9000 ft., from MURREB to KTTMAON. 



Stems erect, from a woody rootstock, 1-3-flowered, stout or slender, from densely 

 villous to glabrate. Radical leaves 12 by 3 in.; leaflets sessile, 1-3 by |-1 in., 

 membranous, rarely acute, teeth obtuse or acute ; base entire, cuneate ; petiole 

 slender; cauline stipules f-1 in., ovate or oblong, lower entire, upper lobed. Flowers 

 -1 in. diam ; fruiting pedicels sometimes 3 in., divaricate. Calyx-lobes acute ; brac- 

 teoles obtuse. Avhenes very numerous, on a globose hairy receptacle. In English 

 gardens this species has been long cultivated and much hybridized. 



28. P. kashmirica, Hook.f. ; erect, leafy, clothed with spreading hairs, 

 leaves short-petioled 5-foliolate, leaflets obovate-oblong very coarsely serrate 

 lateral lobes softly hairy on both surfaces, flowers in large wide-spreading dicho- 

 tomous cymes, petals obcordate yellow, achenes deeply wrinkled, style short sub- 

 terminal. 



KASHMIR at Nowgunge, alt. 7500 ft., C. B. Clarke. 



Stem a foot high, rather slender ; hairs soft, flexuous. Leaves 2-3 in. ; leaflets 

 1-1^ in., sessile, th* lateral much shorter and broader, all cut | way down into sub- 

 acute lobes or serratures, paler and almost silky beneath ; petiole 1-2 in. ; stipules 

 lanceolate, acute. Inflorescence 6 in. diam., repeatedly forked and more corymbose 

 than panicled, many-flowered. Flowers ^ in. diam. ; pedicels slender. Calyx silky ; 

 lobes ovate, acuminate ; bracteoles obtuse. Petals about | larger than the calyx. 

 Achenes many, on a globose hairy receptacle. A very distinct plant, allied to P. nepa- 



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