360 LI. ROSACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Potentate. 



VAR. 2 ; stems more robust more dichotomously branched, flowers in. diarn., 

 achenes larger ribbed. Kashmir. 



DOUBTFUL AND UNDETERMINABLE SPECIES. 



POTENTILLA sp. from Shillong, Khasia Mts., alt. 5,000 ft., C. B. Clarke ; perennial, 

 sparsely hairy, leaflets 3 sessile -1 \ in. elliptic-ovate or obovate acutely toothed hairy 

 beneath less so above, cauline stipules small cut, flowering stem inclined or prostrate 

 slender 2-3-leaved, cymes corymbose rusty tomentose leafy flowers in. diam., calyx- 

 lobes lanceolate acute, bracteoles elliptic obtuse, petals obcordate twice as long as the 

 calyx, carpels many. 



POTENTILLA Candolleana, Boyle HI. 203, name only.. 



POTENTILLA Atropos and pteropoda are names given without description or in- 

 dication of affinity in Hofrneister's travels, and are no doubt described Himalayan 

 plants. 



12. CHAMJERHODOS, Bunge. 



Herbs with a woody rootstock, and ascending or erect leafy stems. Leaves 

 alternate, divided ; stipules membranous, adnate to the petiole. Flowers small, 

 5-merous, in branched cymes. Calyx persistent, tube ebracteolate ; lobes erect, 

 valvate. Petals 5, equalling or exceeding the calyx. Stamens 5, opposite the 

 calyx-lobes, short. Disk lining the base of the calyx ; its margins free, bristly. 

 Carpels 5, 10, or more, sessile in the base of the calyx ; style basilar, deciduous ; 

 ovule 1, ascending. Achenes few or many, dry, glabrous. DISTKIB. Mountains 

 of Northern Asia and N. America j species 4 or 5. 



l.C. sabulosa, Bunge ; Ledeb. Flor. Ross. ii. 35 ; Ic. t. 257 ; tufted, glan- 

 dular and villous ; leaves 3-partite, segments narrow lobed obtuse. 



WESTERN TIBET, alt. 12-15,000 ft. DISTRIB. Altai Mts. 



Bootstock short, with many densely tufted short heads. Stems 2-4 in., slender, 

 erect or ascending, branched, naked or leafy. Leaves with the slender petiole in. 

 Flowers in. diam., yellow. Achenes smooth, ovoid, narrowed upwards. 



13. ALCHSITCILLA, Linn. Lady's mantle. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves orbicular, lobed or deeply divided ; sti- 

 pules adnate to the petiole. Flowers minute, in lax or crowded corymbose cymes. 

 Calyx urceolate, persistent, 4-5-bracteolate ; lobes 4-5, valvate in bud. Petals 

 0. Stamens 1-4, inserted on the mouth of the calyx. Disk coating the calyx- 

 tube, and all but closing its mouth by its thickened margin. Carpels 1-5, basal 

 in the calyx-tube ; style basal or ventral ; ovule 1, basal. Achenes 1-4, enclosed 

 in the membranous calyx-tube. DISTRIB. Natives chiefly of the American 

 Andes ; a few are European, N. Indian, and American ; species 30. 



1. A. vulg-aris, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 729 ; leaves plaited orbicu- 

 lar-cordate 7-9-lobed toothed, stipules confluent into a funnel-shaped tube with 

 short broad spreading toothed lips. 



KASHMIR, alt. 8-9000 ft., Falconer, Stewart, C. B. Clarke DISTRIB. Persia and 

 westward to, the Atlantic, N. Europe and Asia, Greenland and Labrador. 



More or less clothed with silky hairs. Bootstock perennial, creeping. Stems 

 6 18 in., ascending, simple. Badical leaves 2-3 in. diam., basal lobes overlapping: 

 petiole 6-18 in. ; stipules usually spreading out like a fan. Cymes- glabrous, irregu- 

 larly racemed or panicled. Flowers in. diam., yellow-green : pedicel very short. 

 Achenes 1-2. 



