Pot&ntilla.'] LI, ROSACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 359 



A small high Alpine species, very difficult in some of its forms to distinguish from 

 dwarf states of P. multifida on the one hand, and but for the smaller flowers, from P. 

 le'ucochroa on the other, which again resembles closely P. argyrophylla of the Hima- 

 layas and P. villosa of Arctic America. Eootstock very stout and woody. Leaves 1-2 in. ; 

 leaflets J-l in., sessile, very coriaceous, glabrous or silky above, snow-white beneath ; 

 petiole stout ; stipules ovate, acute, downy, entire or toothed. Stem with 1 (rarely 

 more) reduced leaf. Flowers % in. diam., on stout peduncles. Calyx woolly ; lobes 

 acute ; bracteoles oblong, obtuse. Petals yellow, obcordate. Achenes few, pale, tumid, 

 on a densely woolly low receptacle. 



** Root annual. 



38. P. Kleiniana, Wight fy Am. Prodr. 300 ; sparsely silkiLy hairy, 

 stems many from the root very slender prostrate leafy, leaves digitately 3-5-foii- 

 olate, leaflets 5 narrowly obovate or oblanceolate obtuse obtusely serrate, sti- 

 pules ^-lanceolate, flowers small in terminal panicled cymes, achenes minute 

 deeply wrinkled, style terminal. Wight. III. t. 85; Lehm. Revis. Potentill. 79. 

 P. Wallichiana, Wall. Cat. 1022; Lehm. Rev. Potentill. 80, t. 34, not of 

 DC. Prodr. P. gracilis, Wall. MSS. Duchesnea sundaica, MiqT Fl. 2nd. 

 Sat. i. part 1, 372, t. 6. 



Temperate Himalaya from KASHMIR, alt. 3-7000 ft., to SIKKIM, alt. 4-9000 ft. and 

 BHOTAN. KHASIA MTS., alt 4000 ft. NILGHIRI MTS., alt 6-7000 ft. CEYLON, cen- 

 tral province, alt. 6-7000 ft. DISTRIB. Yunan, Java, Japan. 



Annual. ' Steins 3-24 in., flexuous. Leaflets ^2 in., variable in breadth, mem- 

 branous or rather coriaceous, entire towards the cuneate base, flat or complicate, be- 

 neath glabrous or with silky hairs on the nerves ; petiole very slender, 1-4 in. ; 

 stipules in., entire or toothed. Flowers \ in. diam., usually pedioelleH, o'r in spread- 

 ing cymes. Calyx sparsely silky ; lobes entire ; bracteoles acute or obtuse. Petals 

 yellow, not much exceeding the calyx. Achenes in a globose head with a large glabrous 

 receptacle. Leaflets very rarely 7, sometimes pedate. 



39. P. supina, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 725 ; annual, hairy, stems 

 spreading leafy, leaves pinnate, leaflets 3-9 opposite and alternate oblong obtuse 

 lobulate or serrate, stipules ovate entire, pedicels axillary solitary, petals small, 

 achenes minute, styles subterminal. Wight fy Arn. Prodr. 300 ; Lehm. Revis. 

 Potentill. 193. P. cicutarisefolia, Willd. P. denticulata, Ser. ; Wall. Cat. 1029. 

 P. Heynii, Roth-, Wall. Cat. 1024. P. cana, Wall. MSS. P. ruthenia ? 

 Herb. Ham. P. amurensis, Maxim. P. obovata, Bertol. Plant.. Nuov. Asiat. 8, 

 t. 4. Comarum flavum, Roxb. Cat. Hort. Beng. 39 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 521. 



Throughout the warmer parts of India, from KASHMIR to MALACCA and the NIL- 

 GHIRI HILLS ; ascending the Himalaya to 850') ft. in the north-west. Iskardo in 

 WESTERN TIBET., alt. 7-8500 ft. DISTRIB. Affghanistan and westward to the Atlan- 

 tic, N. Asia and N. Africa. 



Stems very numerous from the root, 6-18 in., spreading, dichotomously branched, 

 prostrate or suberect, stout or slender. Leaves ^-3 in., flaccidiy membranous ; leaflets 

 irregular in position form and cutting, usually obovate, often oblong or cuneate, ob- 

 tusely crenate incised or serrate ; petiole slender, ^-2 in. ; stipules very broad or nar- 

 row, flowers \~ in. diam.; pedicels ^ ^ in., slender. Calyx-lobes obtuse or acute, 

 as are the bracteoles. Petals oblong, yellow, smaller than the calyx. Achtnes very 

 many, minute, smooth or ridged ; receptacle globose, villous. There are two extreme 

 forms of this common plant both found everywhere in Asia and in Africa, and many 

 intermediates ; it appears to be very rare in the Western Peninsula absent from Cey- 

 lon, which is remarkable for a tropical and subtropical annual that extends to Malacca. 



VAR. 1 ; stems excessively numerous from the root slender, flowers in. diam., 

 achenes minute smooth. Plains of India. 



