Petmtilla.] Li. eosacb^. (J. D. Hooker.) 359 



A. email high Alpine apacies, very difBcult in some of its forms to distinguish from 

 dwarf states of P. midtifida on the one hand, and but for the smaller flowers, from P. 

 lemochroa on the other, which again resembles closely P. argyrophylla oi t\ia Uimi- 

 layas and P. yillosa of Arctic America. — Eootstock very stout and woody. Leaves 1-2 in. ; 

 leaflets J-1 in., sessile, Tery coriaceous, glabrous or silky above, snow-white beneath ;' 

 petiole stout ; stipules ovate, acute, downy, entire or toothed. Stem with 1 (rarely 

 more) reduced leaf. Flowers ^ in. diam., on stout peduncles. Galyx woolly ; lobes 

 acute ; bracteoles oblong, obtuse. Petals yellow, obcordate. Achenes few, pale, tumid, 

 on a densely wooUy low receptacle. 



** Boot annual. 



38. P. Kleinlana, Wight Sr Am. Prodr. 300 ; sparsely silMly hairy, 

 stems many from the root very slender prostrate leafy, leaves digitately 3-5-foli- 

 olate, leaflets 5 narrowly obovate or oblanceolate obtuse obtusely serrate, sti- 

 pules J-lanceolate, flovfers small in terminal panicled cymes, achenes minute 

 deeriy vmnkled, style terminal. Wiffht. III. t. 86 ; Lehm. Mevis. Potmtill. 79. 

 P. Wallichiana, Wall. Cat. 1022 ; Lehm. Hev. Potenjtill. 80, t. 34, not of 

 DC. Prodr. P. gracilis, Wall. MSS. Duchesnea sundaica, Mig. Fl. Ind, 

 Bat. i. part 1, 372, t. 6. • 



Temperate Himalaya from Kashmir, alt. 3-7000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 4-9000 ft. and 

 Bhotan. Khasia Mts., alt 4000 ft. Nilghibi Mts., alt. 6-7000 ft. Ceylon, cen- 

 tral province, alt. 6-7000 ft. — Distkib. Yunan, Java, Japan. 



Annual. Stems 3-24 in., flexuous. Leaflets J-2 in., variable in breadth, mem- 

 branous or rather coriaceous, entire towards the cuneate base, flat or complicate, be- 

 neath glabrous or with silky hairs on the nerves ; petiole very slender, 1-4 in. ; 

 stipules J in., entire or toothed. Flowers { in. diam., usually pedicelled, or in spread- 

 ing cymes. Calyx sparsely silky ; lobes entire ; bracteoles acute or obtuse. Petals 

 yellow, not much exceeding the calyx. Achenes in a globose head with a large glabrous 

 receptacle. — Leaflets very rarely 7, sometimes pedate. 



39. P. supina, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 726 ; annual, bairy, stems 

 spreading leafy, leaves pinnate, leaflets 3-9 opposite and alternate oblong obtuse 

 lobulate or serrate, stipules ovate entire, pedicels axillary solitary, petals small, 

 achenes minute, styles subterminal. Wight ^ Am, Prodr. SOO; Lehm. Bevis. 

 Potentill. 193. P. cicutarisefolia, Willd. P. dentieulata, -Ser. ; Wall. Ca<. 1029. 

 P. Heynii, Both; Wall. Cat. 1024. P. cana. Wall. MSS. P. ruthenia ? 

 Sa-b. Sam. P. amurensis, Maxim. P. obovata, Bertol. Piant. Nuov. Asiat. 8, 

 t. 4. Oomarum flavum, Bo.vb. Cat. Sort. Beng. 39 ; Fl. Ind. li. 521. 



Throughout the warmer parts of India, from Kashmir to Malacca and the Nil- 

 GHiKi Hiixs ; ascending the Himalaya to 850n ft. in the north-west. Iskardo in 

 Western Tibet., alt. 7-8500 ft. — Distrie. Afi'ghanistan and westward to the Atlan- 

 tic, N. Asia and N. Africa. 



/Stems very numerous from the root, 6-18 in., spreading, dichotomously branched, 

 prostrate or suberect. stout or slender. Leaves ^-3 in., flaocidly membranous ; leaflets 

 irregular in position form and cutting, usually obovate, often oblong or cuneate, ob- 

 tusely crenate incised or serrate ; petiole slender, ^2 in. ; stipules very broad or nar- 

 row. Iflowers J-i in. diam.; pedicels ^—k in., slender. Calyx-lobes obtuse or acute, 

 as are the bracteoles. Petals oblong, yellow, smaller than the calyx. Achenes very 

 many, minute, smooth or ridged ; receptacle globose, villous. — There are two extreme 

 forms of this common plant both found everywhere in Asia and in Africa, and many 

 intermediates ; it appears to be very rare in the Western Peninsula absent from Cey- 

 lon, which is remarkable for a tropical and subtropical annual that extends to Malacca. 



Vae. 1 ; stems excessively numerous from the root slender, flowers J in. diam., 

 achenes, minute smooth. Plains of India. 



