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Plants oj the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 

 Leaflets many. 



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felted, in many- or few-flowered clusters or solitary, calyx 

 lobes triangular-ovate or lanceolate, bracteoles narrowly 

 oblong, blunt, petals orbicular, ovate with a broad tip, 

 styles terminal, achenes many, smooth ; otherwise like the 

 last species. 



Potentilla 

 nepalensis, 



Battanjot. 



E0SACE.E. 



F. B. I. ii. 355. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-9,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Murrce. 



medium size, perennial, stout or slender, softly hairy 

 to nearly smooth, stem branched, leafy, leaves digitately 

 compound, radical, 12 by 3 in., long-stalked, leaflets 5, 

 1-3 b}^ l-l^ in., sessile, stem stipules f-1 in., ovate or oblong, 

 lower entire, upper lobed, leaflets ovate with a broad tip 

 or rounded, coarsely toothed, green, flowers f-1 in. diam., 

 purple, stalked in forked branching racemes, calyx lobes 

 short-pointed, bracteoles blunt, petals reversed, heart- 

 shaped, longer than the calyx lobes, achenes very many, 

 minute, wrinkled on a round hairy receptacle ; otherwise 

 like the last species. A red dye is obtained from the root. 



Potentilla 

 kashmirica, 



EOSACE^. 



F. B. I. 355. 



Kashmir, 

 7,500 ft. 

 Nowgunge (Clarke). 



very like the last species, but mth shorter leaf stalks, 

 shorter more deeply toothed leaflets, yellow flowers, more 

 deeply wrinkled achenes, and broadly clustered flowers. 



Potentilla argentea, 



Agrimonia 

 Eupatorium, 



Agrimonia pilosa, 



Vicatia conilfolia, 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Stipulate, Com- 

 pound. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Stipulate, Com- 

 pound. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Stipulate, Com- 

 pound. 



Flowers, minute, in umbels. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Compound. 



Vicatia mUlefolia, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Compound. 



