ROSACE.E. 237 



Cent. Chin, p. 403 ; PALIBIX Conspect. Fl. Korese I. p. 81 ; MATSUM. et 

 HAY ATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 125. 



Potent Ma multifida BAKER et S. MOOBE in Joum. Linu. Soc. XVII. p. 381. 



HAB. Shintiku, Taitocho, Hinan, Rokuryo. 



DISTP.IB. Mandshuria, Japan, Cliina and Corea. 



Potentilla discolor BUXGE ; WALP. Rep. IT. p. 30 ; HAXCE in Joiirn. 

 Bot. (1878), p. 11 ; FBAXCHET PI. David, p. 122 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Lid. 

 Fl. Sin. I. p. 241 ; HENRY List PI. Formos. p. 40 ; DIELS Fl. Centr. 

 Chin, p. 403 ; PALIBIX Conspect Fl. Korese I. p. 81 ; MATSUM:. et HAYATA 

 Enura. PI. Formos. p 125. 



PdcntlUa formos:ma HAXCE iu " Ann. So. Nat. 5 me. S3rie, V. p. 212," 

 et in Joum. Linn. Soc. XHI. p. 79. 



HAB. Shintiku, Tamsui. 



DISTP.IB. Cliina, Japan and Corea. 



Potentilla gelida C.A. MEY ; LEDEB. Fl. Ross. II. p. 59; HOOK. f. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. H. p. 357 ; DIELS Fl. Tiu.-Hug-slian, in EXGL. Bot. Jalirb. 

 XXXVI. Beibl. p. 5<> ; HAYATA in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XX. p. 73 ; HAYATA 

 Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 83. 



Potentilla grandiflom Lrxx. ; WAGXER Deut. Fl. ed-3, p. 399 ; THOME 

 Fl. Deut. Ost. n. Sclnv. HI. p. 7(. 



HAB. Mt. Monison. 



DISTRIB. Extends to Eiux>pe, northern India, central China, Japan, 

 eastern 8il>eria and the Kurile and Aleutian islands. 



The spacies seems to vary over a wide range and especially so in 

 the size of flowers. 



Potentilla leuconota Dox var. morrisonicola HAYATA Fl. Mont. 

 Formos. p. 83. Stem sericeo -pilose, erect, nearly 15 cm. long. Leaves 

 subraclical pinnate. < 1 (lanceolate in outline, obtuse, 10 cm. long, nearly 19- 

 foliolate, leaflets sessile, obovate, obtuse, 1 cm. long, sharply dentate, pilose 

 above, sericeously pilose, petioles adpressingly pilose, stipules scaly, nearly 3 

 cm. long, adnate to the petioles at the base, entire. Cauline leaves nearly 

 the same" as radical one, much smaller, a very few, often 1-2 on the middle of 



