Potentilla,'] u. eosacej!. (J. D. Hooker.) 361 



A smaller plant (sometimes only 2 inches high) than P. LeschenaulHana, with 

 which it is almost, if not quite, united through its var. bannehalensis, less villous, with 

 smaller leaves, more branched open corymbs, longer and more slender pedicels, more 

 acute calyx-lobes and smaller fruit. 



Vae. siolomfera ; Lehm. ; Maxim. Diagn. Dec. xv. 160 ; stoloniferous, leaflets some- 

 times 9, the alternate smaller. Bhotan, Griffith; Sirmore, WalUch. — I give the 

 Sirmore habitat on Maximovic's authority ; the specimens in Herb. Wallich have no 

 stolons and are referable to the ordinary form of the plant. According to' the same 

 authority this variety is found in Japan and Kamtschatka. 



17. P. Clarkei, Hooh.f. ; leafy, stout, hispid with long spreading hairs, 

 leaves short, leaflets 6-7 lower much smaller obovate very coarsely crenate- 

 toothed, flowers pedicelled in dichotomoiis cymes with very divaricate leafy 

 branches and involucriform cut leaf-bracts, calyx-lobes acute, achenes many mi- 

 nutely wrinkled, style slender terminal. 



Kashmie, Sirinxiggur, alt. 7000 ft., C. B. Clarke. 



Stems 1 ft., ascending from a woody rootstook. Leaves 1-2 in., covered with 

 spreading hairs on the petiole and both surfaces ; leaflets J-1 in., approximate, ses- 

 eile, rigidly coriaceous, toothed J way down, pale green when dry, lower lateral 

 sometimes cuneate and 2-3-toothed ; stipules on the stem large, semi-ovate, leafy, en- 

 tire or toothed. Inflorescence very stiff, spreading, dichotomously branched, with 

 sessile leaves ; pedicel stout, ^1 in. Flowers J in. diam. Petals obovate, yellow. 



Stamens numerous. Achenes rather large, numerous, on an elevated hairy receptacle. 



The rigid pubescence, habit, inflorescence and carpels at once distinguish this from 

 its allies ; its floral leaves form a sort of involucre of narrow almost pinuatifid spread- 

 ing leaflets. 



18. P. Grlffithii, Hooh.f. ; tall, branched, hoary, leafy, leaves short>-pe- 

 tioled, leaflets 5-7 white with appressed pubescence beneath 3 terminal leaflets 

 obovate coarsely crenate-serrate lateral smaller orbicular or oblong, stipules 

 leafy deeply toothed, flowers in' panicled corymbs sessile or pedicelled, calyx- 

 lobes obtuse or subacute, achenes very minute glabrous, style very short subter- 

 minal. Potentilla 15, Herh. Ind. Or. H. f. ^ T. 



Eastern Himalaya, Bhotan, alt. 6-8000 ft., Griffith; Sekkim, alt. 7-14,000 ft., 

 J. P. H. 



BootstooTc inclined. Stem 10-24 in., erect or ascending, stout or slender. Leaves 

 small, 1-4 in. ; leaflets i-\ in., green and glabrous or hairy above, quite white be- 

 neath and sometimes hairy as well as clotued with white opaque down, base cuneate, 

 lateral very irregular in size and shape, lowest pair often minute; petiole hairy; sti- 

 pules large. Flowers i-1 in. diam. ; pedicel J-2 in., pubescent or tomentose. Calyx 

 silky, lobes acute or obtuse ; bracteoles quite entire, oblong or ovate, acute or obtuse. 

 Petals yellow, rounded or retuse at the tip. Achenes numerous, exceedingly minute, 

 smooth, on a large globose somewhat hairy receptacle. — ^Near P. discolor, Bunge, of 

 China, of which I have seen only a small specimen, and which is much smaller, with 

 prostrate flowering stems and pointed tips to the calyx-lobes. 



Vab. 1 ; very slender, flowers f-J in. on slender long pedicels, petals small. — Sik- 

 kim, alt. 7-9000 ft. 



Vae. 2.; robust, "sometimes ^—4 in. high, flowers t^l in. on stout shorter pedicels, 

 petals large.— Bhotan and Sikkim, alt. 12-13,000 ft. 



19. P. peduncularis, Don Prodr. 230 ; leaflets numerous oblong closely 

 deeply serrate clothed beneath with long soft appressed silvery hairs, above silky 

 or glabrous, flowering stems erect or ascending equalling the leaves, flowers few 

 large corymbose, bracteoles usually 1-2-toothed, achenes very large almost glo- 

 bose, style very short ventral. Lehm. Sevis. PotemtUl. 66, t. 25. P. leuconota, 

 WaU. Cat. 1021, in part. P. velutina. Wall. Cat. 1016. 



