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



Ivnsis ; distinguished by the shorter petioles, very deeply serrate shorter leaflets the 

 lateral of which are lobed on the lower margin, by the yellow flowers and strongly 

 wrinkled aohenes ; the broad corymbose inflorescence further distinguishes it from both 

 P. nepalensis and desertorum. Its nearest ally is the European P. hirta, L. which has 

 much larger flowers and achenes. 



29. P. arg~entea, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 714 ; hoary with ap- 

 pressed white tomentum, stems leafy, leaflets 5 oblanceolate pinnatifidly cut 

 into broad subacute teeth, base entire cuneate, flowers very numerous subco- 

 rymbose, pedicels slender, petals yellow, achenes minute smooth, style subter- 

 minal. 



KASHMIR, Jacquemont ; Pir Punjal, Stewart ; Alibad, 8,000 ft., C. B. Clarke. 

 DISTRIB. Soongaria, N. Asia, Asia Minor westward to the Atlantic. 



Stems many from the root, 6-10 in., erect or ascending. Leaflets l-l in., ses- 

 sile, rather stiff, lobes pointing upwards, margins slightly recurved, glabrous above ; 

 petiole 1-2 in. ; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, entire. Inflorescence broad, much di- 

 tri-chotomously branched, leafy. Flowers | in. diam. ; pedicels -l in. Calyx 

 densely tomentose ; lobes acute ; bracteoles entire. Petals rather exceeding the calyx, 

 obovate. Achenes on a villous elevated receptacle. 



30. P. reptans, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 723 ; glabrous, sparsely 

 hairy, stolons long slender rooting, leaflets 5 obovate or oblanceolate crenate- 

 serrate, peduncles axillary solitary naked 1-flowered, achenes many smooth, 

 styles subterminal. 



KASHMIR, Falconer, Jacquemont, Thomson. DISTRIB. Siberia, Affghanistan west- 

 ward to Abyssinia and in Europe to the Atlantic, N. China, Japan. 



Eootstock woody ; runners 1-2 ft., slender, leafy at the nodes. Leaflets 1-2 in., 

 membranous, somewhat pedate, sometimes petiolulate ; petiole 1-6 in., slender ; sti- 

 pules small, oblong, entire. Peduncle 1-4 in., erect. Flowers ^-f in. diam. Calyx- 

 lobes broad or narrow, acute; bracteoles ovate, entire. Petals obcordate, yellow. 

 Achenes dark brown. 



VAR. minor ; leaflets ^ in. rigid obovate quite glabrous. 



VAR. ? trifoliolata ; pubescent, leaflets 3 obovate sparingly silky beneath. Kash- 

 mir valley, Thomson. Probably a different species. 



81. P. pteropoda, Eoyle III. 207, t. 40, f. 2 ; silkily hairy, leaves long- 

 petiole d fan-shaped in outline, leaflets 5 cuneate-oblong toothed at the tip, sti- 

 pules very long adnate to and almost equalling the petiole, stems 1- few- 

 flowered, petals large, carpels ovoid. Lehm. Revis. Potentill. 157. 



Mountains surrounding KASHMIR, Eoyle 1. c. 



This is the only described Indian Potentilla of which I have not seen a specimen. 

 The above character is extracted from Boyle's, to which the plate enables me to add 

 that the flowering stems equal or rather exceed the leaves, and that the petals are 

 obcordate and twice as large in the acute sepals. The drawing represents a plant 

 with very much the habit of P. curviseta, but far more robust, with 3-5 much broader 

 leaflets, that have rounded 5-7-toothed tips. 



ftt Leaves digitately 3-foliolate (see also 30. P. reptans, var. ? trifoliolata, 

 states of 24. P. sericea and 23. multifida). 



32. P. arg-yrophylla, Wall. Cat. 1020 ; tall, leafy, clothed with white 

 silky hairs rarely with opaque tomentum, leaflets 3 elliptic-ovate -oblong -orbi- 

 cular or obovate acutely toothed white beneath, nerves prominent, flowers many 

 in panicled cymes usually long-pedicelled, petals large red purple or yellow, 

 achenes smooth on a densely villous receptacle, style subterminal. 



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