Potentitta.] ROSACEAE. 443 



W. Ghats, Nilgiri and Pulney Hills at 6,000-7,000 ft. 

 A small creeping strawberry, the fruit insipid. 

 2. FRAGARIA NILGERRENSIS, Schleclit. ; F. B. I. ii. 344. F. 

 elatior, W. & A. 300 ; Wt. Ic. t. 938. 

 W. Ghats, Nilgiri and Pulney Hills, above 6,000 ft. 

 A stout creeping wild strawberry, the fruit edible and 

 pleasant. 



Fragaria elcttior, Ehrh., the Strawberry, is cultivated in hill 

 gardens. 



5. Potentilla, Linn. 



Herbs or rarely shrubs, perennial or sometimes annual. Leaves 

 digitately or pinnately compound, the leaflets usually lobed; 

 stipules adnate to the petiole. Flowers white or yellow, rarely 

 red, solitary or in corymbose cymes ; bracts leafy ; bracteoles 5, 

 rarely 4. under the calyx. Calyx persistent, tube hemispheric or 

 urceolate, concave at base; lobes 5, rarely 4, valvate. Petals 5. 

 Stamens many, 1- or more-seriate, rarely definite. Carpels many, 

 on a small dry receptacle ; ovule solitary, pendulous ; style per- 

 sistent or deciduous, ventral or terminal. Fruit of many achenes, 

 clustered on the dry receptacle. Seeds minute ; radicle superior. 



Leaves pinnate with 5-7 obovate coarsely-toothed leaflets, whitish 

 beneath, softly golden-villous ; flowers about *5 in. in-diam. ; achenes 

 smooth or very minutely wrinkled, pale, about '1 in. long 



1. Leschenaultiana. 



Leaves digitately 5-foliolate, leaflets obovate or oblanceolate, silky- 

 villous, green l^eiieath, obtusely deeply crenate; flowers about '25 in. 

 in diam. ; achenes dark, deeply wrinkled, scarcely '05 in. long 



2. Kleiniana. 



1. POTENTILLA LESCHENAULTIANA, Ser. ; F. B. I. ii. 350 ; 

 W. & A. 301 ; Wt. Ic. t. 990. 



W. Ghats, in the Xilgiri and Pulney Hills, above 6,500 ft. 

 A strong-growing perennial herb with yellow flowers. 



2. POTENTILLA KLEINIANA, W. & A. 300 ; F. B. I. ii. 359 ; 

 Wt. 111. t. 85. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiri Hills about Ootacamuiid at 

 7,000 ft. 



A weak, usually prostrate herb with yellow flowers, 

 sometimes stoloiiiferous. 



