Potentilla.] ti. rosacea. (J. D. Hooker.) 867 



Western and Central Himalaya, from Kashmir, alt. 8-13,000 ft. toNiPAL. 



Bootstock very stout ; stem 2-3 ft., finely pubescent. Leajkts a-3 in., sessile or 

 petioMate, green, glabrous or finely silky above, dirty -white beneath ; nerves not very 

 prominent, teeth acute; petiole 3-6 in. ; cauline stipules ovate-oblong, acute. Flowers 

 J-1^ in. diam. ; pedicels sometimes 2 in., and very slender. Calyx silky, lobes acu- 

 minate ;.bracteoles elliptic-oblong, obtuse acute or acuminate. Petals obcordate-cuneate, 

 varying from red-purple to almost brown-purple. Stamens about 20, dark purple. 

 Achenes very numerous ; styles long. 



Except in the colour of the petals I can find no difference between P. atrosanguinea 

 and P. argyrophylla, and I am hence compelled to unite them ; in so doing I retain 

 the name oi argyrophylla from its representing a character known to both forms. 



VAH.fflJ^yropAyMap-oper; flowers yellow. P. argyrophylla. Wall.; Lehm. Monogr. 

 Potmtill. 8uppl. t. 9 ; Bevis. Potentill. ISl. P. Jacquemontiana, Camhess. in Jaeq. Voy. 

 Bot. 81, t. 63. P. insignis, Boyle MSS.; Lindley in Bot. Beg., 1841, t. 37.— I have 

 not seen the quinate leaflets which according to Lindley occasionaEy occur, nor the 

 broad 2-3-fid bracteoles mentioned by Lehman. 



Vae. atrosanguinea ; flowers red or purple. P. atrosanguinea, Lodd. Bot. Cab. viii. 

 t. 786; Don Prodr. 232; Lehm. Betris. PotentiU. ISO; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2689; 

 Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 124. P. "Wallichiana, Govanin Wall. Cat. 1013. 



Vae. leucochroa ; much smaller, leaflets sometimes J in. densely silky often on 

 both surfaces, flowering stems 1-few-flowered, flowers yellow or red. P. leucochroa, 

 Undl. in Wall. Cat. 1019. P. Cautleyana, Boyle El. 207, t. 40, f. 1. P. eataclines, 

 Lehm. Pugiil. iii. 37 ; Monog. PotentiU. Suppl. i. t. 10 ; Bevis. Potentill. 150. P. vestita, 

 Klotzsehin Beis. Pr. Waldem. Bot. 1. 14.— Kashmir to Nipal,alt. 10-15,000 ft.— Leh- 

 man (Eevis. 171) includes Lindle/s leucochroa under the American P. villosa, which 

 difiers totally in the short style and glabrous receptacle, 



33. P. gpellda, C. A. Meyer ; Ledeh. Fl. Itoss. ii. 59 ; sparsely pubes- 

 cent or silky or glandular, leaflets 3 small obovate or cuneate deeply crenate, 

 cauline few much reduced with broad-ovate large entire stipules, flowering stems 

 slender ascending, flowers on slender pedicels yellow, calyx-lobes acute longer 

 than the oblong obtuse Ijracteoles, acnenes smooth, styles subterminal, ieAm. 

 Bevis. Potentill. 164 P. grandiflora and P. ^Ipestris, Serb. Ind. Or. Hooh.f. 

 IS; T. 



Western temperate Himalaya; from Kashmir to Kunawtr and in Western 

 Tibet, alt. 13-17,000 ft. — Distrib. N. Asia from the Caucasus to Dahuria. 



Usually covered with soft spreading hairs, sometimes glandular, rarely somewhat 

 silky. Bootstock rarely large. Leaflets ^-% in. long, sessile or petiolulate, usually 

 entire for ^ or ^ upwards from the base, crenaturea very large, sometimes only 4 or 

 6, and towards the very end of the leaflet, rather membranous, flat, nerves indistinct ; 

 petiole J-1, rarely 2 in. ; stipules of cauline leaves ^-| in. long, hoary. Flowers 

 ^-1 in. diam., usually 1-4 on slender pedicels. Cfa^^x pubescent or silky. Petals ob- 

 oordate. Achenes many on an elevated villous receptacle. — A very variable plant. 

 Some specimens of Mr. Clarke's from Karakoram, alt. 14,500 ft. are upwards of 2 feet 

 high, others from Kumaon are not as many inches and are quite glntinous. The broad 

 entire stipules and almost naked flowering stems are its best character. I do not see 

 how it is to be distinguished from the European P. grandiflora and Siberian P.fragi- 

 formis, Willd. (exclusive of the Japan plant so called by A. Gay). 



34. P. doubjouneana, Camh. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 50, t. 61 ; sparsely 

 pubescent, leaflets 3 obovate-cuneate deeply toothed, cauline with obctmeate 

 toothed stipules, flowering stems ascending slender leafy, calyx-lobes acute 

 longer than the obcuneate 3-fid bracteoles, achenes smooth, style subterminal. 

 Lehm. Rems. Potentill. 157. 



Kashmir, alt. 9-10,000 ft., Jacquemont, Thomson, 



Very similar to P. gdida, but distinguished by the more leafy flowering stems. 



