Potentilla.] Rosacea. 1 39 



3. FOTENTILLA, L. 

 Herbs, 1. compound, stip. adnate to petiole, fl. in cymose 

 panicles; cal. with 5 segm., persistent, with 5 adnate bractlets 

 outside (epicalyx) ; pet. 5 ; stam. indef. ; carp, indef., distinct, 

 style basal or terminal, ovule solitary, pendulous ; fruit com- 

 posed of numerous very small dry indehiscent achenes. — 

 Sp. 120; 39 in. Fl. B. Ind. 



L. imparipinnate. . . • . . . . 1. P. Mooniana. 

 L. palmately 5-foliolate 2. P. Kleiniana. 



1. P. Mooniana, Wight, Ic. i. t. 233 (1840). 

 Thw. Enum. 101. C. P. 2767. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 349. Wight, 1. c. (no petals) : from a Ceylon specimen. 



A perennial herb with a stout woody rootstock and long 

 stout, prostrate, very hairy branches often rooting at the 

 nodes ; 1. large, in a rosette at top of rootstock, and distant on 

 the branches, imparipinnate, rachis stout, very hairy, usually 

 3-4 in. (sometimes much longer), stip. acuminate, f in., mem- 

 branous, lflts. numerous, sessile, very unequal in size, usually 

 in alternately larger and smaller pairs, larger ones \-\ in., 

 oval, obtuse, coarsely serrate, with bristle-tipped serrations, 

 nearly glabrous above, silvery-silky on the veins beneath, 

 plicate, smaller ones about \ in., rotundate; flowering branches 

 erect from leaf-axils, 6-12 in., bearing the fl. on long, slender, 

 hairy, stiff ped. in a lax terminal irregularly dichotomous 

 panicle ; cal.-segm. oval, acute, hairy, bractlets similar but 

 rather shorter, pet. orbicular, longer than cal.-segm. ; achenes 

 very numerous, smooth, on a hairy receptacle. 



Upper montane zone ; rather rare. Nuwara Eliya ; Totapella ; 

 Horton Plains ; Pedurutalagala. Fl. July, August ; yellow. 

 Also in the Himalaya, but not in S. Indian mountains. 



2. P. Kleiniana, W. and A. Prod. 300 (1S34). 

 Thw. Enum. 102. C. P. 2768. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii.359. Wight, 111. t. 8^. 



Annual, stems numerous, prostrate but not rooting, slen- 

 der, hairy; 1. palmately 5-foliolate, the radical ones on very 

 long petioles, the stem ones on much shorter hairy petioles, 

 stip. \ in., lanceolate, acute, glabrous, lflts. unequal, nearly 

 sessile, \ 1 \ in. (terminal the largest), oval or spathulate-oval, 

 acute at base, obtuse, deeply toothed, glabrous above, silky 

 on veins beneath ; fl. smaller, but arranged much as in the last, 

 cal.-segm. and bractlets with a few long hairs; pet. scarcely ex- 

 ling cal., achenes on a glabrous receptacle, deeply wrinkled. 



