Alchemilla.'] Li. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) 361 



2. A. indica, Gard. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. viii. 8; villous with soft 

 long spreading hairs, leaves orbicular-cordate 5-7-lobed minutely toothed, sti- 

 pules confluent in a cylindric tube with oblong entire or toothed acute lips. A 

 vulgaris, Wight Ic. t. 229. A. vulgaris var. sarmentosa, Thwaites Enum. 102. A. 

 ceylanica, Moon Cat. PI. Ceyl. 37. 



NILGHIRI MTS., Wight &c. CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 5-7000 ft. 



Bootsteck creeping, woody. Stems prostrate, stout, leafy. Leaves 1-2 in. diam., 

 glabrous or silky above, margins silky, coriaceous, basal lobes overlapping or not; 

 petiole 1-10 in.; stipules \-\ in., the free portion membranous, erect or spreading, 

 ciliate. Cymes globose, dense-flowered, on slender axillary peduncles 1-2 in. long. 

 Calyx villous, ^ in. long or less. 



VAR. sibthorpioides ; very slender, leaves - in. diam., cymes panicled. Ceylon, 

 Gardner. 



14. AG-RX1KONXA, Linn. Agrimony. 



Slender erect leafy perennial herbs. Leaves interruptedly pinnate ; leaflets 

 coarsely serrate ; stipules partially adnate to the petiole. Floivers small, yellow, 

 in terminal spikelike racemes, 2-bracteolate ; pedicels bracteate at the base. Ca- 

 lyx persistent; tube turbinate, spinous ; mouth contracted; lobes 5, triangular, 

 imbricate. Petals 5. Stamens 5-10 or more, inserted at the mouth of the 

 calyx. Disk lining the calyx-tube, its margin thickened. Carpels 2, included in 

 the calyx-tube ; styles exserted, stigma 2-lobed ; ovule 1, pendulous. Fruit pen- 

 dulous, of 1 or 2 achenes enclosed in the hardened spinous calyx. DISTRIB. 

 N. temp, regions, and S. America ; species 8. 



1. A. Eupatorium, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 727 ; hairy or villous, 

 leaflets elliptic-ovate or lanceolate acute obtuse or acuminate, coarsely obtusely 

 serrate, bracts slender, calyx-tube villous deeply grooved, outer spines spread*- 

 ing. A. lanata, Wall. Cat. 709 ; Wallroth Beitrdg. Bot. 1. 54, t. 1, f. 9. A. 

 nepalensis, Don Prodr. 229 ; Camb. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 55, t. 68. 



Temperate Himalayas, from MURREE and KASHMIR, alt. 3-10,000 to SIKKIM, alt. 

 7-10,000 ft. KHASIA MTS., alt, 4-6000 ft. MISHMI Hills, Griffith. DISTRIB. West- 

 wards from Persia to the Atlantic, Siberia and Java, N. America, Java ? 



JRootstock -woody, short or long. Leaves 3-7 in.; leaflets 6-21, sessile, alternate 

 often small, hairy on both surfaces ; larger 1-3 in., elliptic-ovate or -obovate rarely 

 orbicular; smaller often orbicular and minute; petiole slender; stipules large, leafy, 

 ^-lunate, entire or toothed. Racemes slender, lengthening in fruit; pedicels reflexed 

 in fruit; bracts 3-fid or 3-partite. Flowers in. diam. Petals oblong-obovate, yellow. 

 'Calyx-tube | in., hardened in fruit, grooved, lobes conniving in fruit; top of tube with 

 a dense ring of spines which become hooked in fruit and are erect with the outer 

 spreading. I am quite unable to correlate the India form of this plant with the 

 characters given for the European species so called ; all are more or less glandular 

 and have a deeply furrowed calyx-tube and a horizontal rootstock. A.javanica, Miq. 

 seems not different as far as a single specimen enables me to judge. 



2. A. pilosa, Ledeb. ; Fl. Ross. ii. 32; sparsely hairy, leaflets elliptic-ovate 

 -obovate or -lanceolate obtuse or acute coarsely obtusely serrate, bracts slender, 

 calyx-tube almost glabrous deeply grooved spines all erect. A. viscidula, Bunge 

 Mem. Sav. Mr. St. Petersb. ii. 100, ex Walp. Rep. ii. 41. 



KASHMIR to KDNAWUR, alt. 6-8000 ft., Thomson, C. B. Clarke. DISTRIB. Eussia 

 to Manchuria, China and Japan. 



Very similar to A. Eupatorium, but more glabrous than its Indian forms, and calyx 

 almost glabrous with erect spines. I do not see how A. viscidula differs. 



