1 40 Rosacea. [Poterium. 



Upper montane zone ; rather common. Fl. April, September, 

 October ; yellow. 



Also in the Himalaya and Nilgiris ; and in Yunan, Java, and Japan. 



4. ALCHEMILLA, L. 



Perennial herb with prostrate stems, 1. simple, with large 

 petiolar stip., fl. minute, in corymbose cymes; cal. campanulate 

 with 4 adnate bractlets outside, segm. 4; pet. o; stam. 4; disk 

 at mouth of cal.-tube large and thick ; carp. 1, free, style basal ; 

 fruit a single achene enclosed in persistent cal.-tube. — Sp.30; 

 2 in Fl. B. Ind. 



A. indica, Gardn. in Calc. Jonrn. Nat. Hist. viii. 8 (1847). 

 A. vulgaris, Arn. Pug. 16 (non L.). A. vulgaris, L., var. sarmentosa, 

 Thw. Enum. 102. C. P. 2770. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 361. Wight, Ic. t. 229 {A. vulgaris). 



A perennial herb with a semi-woody erect rootstock 

 clothed with remains of sheathing stip., stems numerous, very 

 long, prostrate, with abundant spreading hair; 1. numerous, 

 suborbicular, the basal ones i\-2\ in., the stem ones 1-1 \ in., 

 cut into 7-9, shallow, rounded lobes, sharply crenate-serrate, 

 silky-hairy on both sides but especially beneath which is 

 silvery white, plicate in bud, petiole variable in length, very 

 long in basal 1., covered with long spreading hair, stip. very 

 large, connate below into a tube surrounding the stem, the 

 free part oblong-lanceolate, acute, often toothed at the end, 

 hairy, membranous or herbaceous ; fl. very small, on short ped., 

 cymes small, rather dense, on erect hairy peduncles from axils 

 of stem-1., bracts numerous, ovate, often toothed ; cal. villous 

 with white hairs. 



Var. (3, sibthorpioides, Hk.f. 1. c. 361. 



" Very slender, 1. \- in. diam., cymes panicled." 



Upper montane zone ; rather common. I have not seen var. /3, which 

 was collected by Gardner. Fl. April ; yellowish-green. 



Occurs also in the Nilgiris Pulney Hills. 



When very luxuriant the leaves are 9-11-lobed, with the lobes over- 

 lapping. Wight, followed in Fl. Brit. Ind., quotes i A. zeyla?tica, Moon' 

 for this, but there is no such name in his Cat., and this high mountain 

 plant could scarcely have been known to him. 



5. FOTERIUIVI, L. 



Erect perennial herb, 1. imparipinnate, stip. petiolar, fl. 

 small, polygamous, nearly sessile in small dense terminal 

 heads ; cal. with a top-shaped persistent tube, and 4 petaloid 



