198 DIAGNOSES SPECIERUM NOVARUM. 
formium orientes, in quaque panicula 10-20, 3-12-flori; 
pedunculi 5-10 cm. longi, sparse vel dense incano-villosuli, 
pedicelli circ. I cm. longi subglabri vel incano-villosuli bracteis 
subulatis vix I mm. longis incano-villosulis praediti. Sepala 5, 
rarius 6, aequalia vel subaequalia circ. 2 mm. longa, lanceolata 
acuminata dense sericeo-villosula, sub fructu valde aucta circ. 
3 cm. longa, 5-7 mm. lata, subaequalia, oblonga, apice apiculata, 
membranaceo-scariosa, basi villosula excepta glabra, purpureo- 
venosa. Corolla roseo-alba circ. 2.5 cm. longa, anguste infundi- 
buliformis, tubus circ. 1.5 cm. longus, parte inferiore linearis 
I mm. latus, superne ampliatus, glaber; limbus in sicco 1.5-2 
cm. latus. Stamina vix medium tubum superantia glabra 
filamentis filiformibus. Ovarium circ. 1 mm. longum, glabrum ; 
stylus 3-4 mm. longus glaber stigmate capitato; capsula 
subglobosa 6-7 mm. longa. 
China :—Province of Yunnan. 
“ Climbing shrub with long branches; leaves white below ; 
flowers delicate, rose-white, in loose pendent masses. Rocks 
in the valley of Ma-li-ouan. Altitude 2600 m. August 1913.” 
Coll. E. E. Maire. No. 64 in Herb. Edin. 
The same in fruit. November 1913. Coll. E. E. Maire. 
No. 65 in Herb. Edin. 
Potentilla Forrestii, W. W.Sm. Sp. nov. 
Species valde affinis Potentillae niveae, Linn.; statura 
majore, foliis subtus incano-tomentosis, segmentis calycis 
exterioribus obovatis profunde trifidis, carpellis maturis stylo 
brevioribus recedit. Ab varietatibus omnibus illius speciei poly- 
morphae ita differt ut vix recte in grege earum collocari possit. 
Caudex crassus multiceps caudiculis caespitosis residuis 
fuscis stipularum indutis. Caules floriferi numerosi (+ 12), 
mediocriter validi, erecti vel adscendentes 20-30 cm. longi 
oligophylli, pauciflori, sicut pedunculi plus minusve incano- 
tomentosi. Folia radicalia plerumque ternata, interdum 4—5- 
nata (segmentis externis multo minoribus), caulina minora 
ternata, floralia reducta ternata vel simplicia ; petioli foliorum 
radicalium 5-15 cm. longi, incano-tomentosi atque (saepe) 
longius villosi ; petioli foliorum superiorum 5—20 mm. ; stipulae 
fol. rad. scariosae ferrugineae basi lata breviter adnatae auriculis 
lanceolatis, caulinae herbaceae oblongo-lanceolatae acutae in- 
tegrae vel apice 3—4-incisae ; foliola sessilia, medianum nonnun- 
quam petiolulatum, ambitu obovata, rarius oblonga, plerumque 
2-3 cm. longa, 1-1.5 cm. lata, grosse serrata, serraturis circ. 
14 oblongis 4-5 mm. longis acumine villoso instructis, supra 
densius parcius adpresse pilosa, subtus tomento incano dense 
