414 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Alchemilla. 



6. Alchemilla, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, orbicular, lobed 

 or deeply divided ; stipules adnate to the petiole, sheathing the 

 stem. Flowers minute, in corymbose cymes ; bracts many ; 

 bracteoles 4-5, under the calyx-lobes. Cafo/#-tube campanulate, 

 lobes 4-5, valvate. Disk adnate to the calyx- tube, large and thick at 

 its mouth. Stamens 4-5, on the mouth of the calyx-tube. Carpels 

 1-5, stalked or sessile in the calyx-tube ; style basal ; stigma 

 capitate. Fruit of 1-4 achenes enclosed in the membranous 

 persistent calyx- tube. 



ALCHEMILLA INDICA, Gardii. ; F. B. I. ii. 361. A. vulgaris, 



Wt. Ic. t. 229. 



Nilgiri and Pulney Hills, above 7,000 ft., chiefly at high 

 elevations as on the top of Dodabetta, on open grass-land. 

 A perennial silky herb with prostrate stems covered with the 

 dry remains of the stipules; flowers very small, green; leaves 

 orbicular, 7-11-lobed, serrate. 



7. Rosa, Linn. 



Erect, sarmentose or climbing shrubs, usually prickly. Leaves 

 alternate, iinparipinnate ; leaflets serrate ; stipules adnate to the 

 petiole. Flowers terminal, solitary or corymbose, white, yellow 

 or red; bracts rarely persistent; bracteoles 0. Calyx-tube globose, 

 ovoid or flask-shaped, the mouth contracted ; lobes 4-5, imbricate. 

 Petals 4-5, usually large. Disk lining the calyx- tube, thickened in a 

 ring at the mouth. Stamens many, inserted on the disk. Carpels 

 many, rarely few, in the bottom of the calyx-tube; styles sub- 

 terminal, free or connate above; stigma thickened ; ovule solitary, 

 pendulous. Fruit a fleshy calyx-tube (rose-hip) enclosing a cluster 

 of coriaceous or bony achenes. Seeds small, pendulous ; cotyledons 

 plano-convex ; radicle superior. 



ROSA LESCHENAULTIANA, W. & A. 301; F. B. I. ii. 368; Wt. 



Ic. t. 38. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiri Hills above 5,000 ft., in Shola 

 Forest ; said to occur also in the Pulney Hills. 

 A large climbing shrub with pink flowers, very glandular 

 leaf-rhachises and peduncles and globose fruit, the styles 



