Ahhemilla.'] Li. nosACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 361 



2. A. Indlca, Gard. in Calc. Joum. Nat. Hist. ym. 8; -villous -with soft 

 long spreading hairs, lea-ves orbicular-cordate 5-7-lobed minutely toothed, sti- 

 pules confluent in a cylindric tube with oblong entire or toothed acute lips. A 

 Tulgaris, Wight Ic. t. 229. A. vulgaris var. sarmentosa, Thwaites Enum. 102. A. 

 ceylanica, Moon Cat. PI. Ceyl. 37. 



NiLGHiEi Mts., Wight &c. Cetlon ; Central Province, alt. 5-7000 ft. 



Bootsteck creeping, -vpoody. Stems prostrate, stout, leafy. Leaves 1-2 in. diam., 

 glabrous or silky above, margins silky, coriaoeons, basal lobes overlapping or not; 

 petiole 1-10 in.; stipules J-1 in., the free portion membranous, erect or spreading, 

 ciliate. Cymes globose, dense-flowered, on slender axillary peduncles 1-2 in. long. 

 Calyx villous, ^ in. long or less. 



Var. gibthorpioides ; very slender, leaves ^§ in. diam., cymes panicled. — Ceylon, 

 Gardner. 



14. AGZtXIIXOirXA, Linn. Agrimony. 



Slender erect leafy perennial herbs. Leaves interruptedly pinnate ; leaflets 

 coarsely serrate ; stipules partially adnate to the petiole. Flowers small, yellow, 

 in terminal spikelike racemes, 2-bracteolate ; pedicels bracteate at the base. Ca- 

 lyx persistent ; tube turbinate, spinous ; mouth contracted ; lobes 5, triangular, 

 imbricate. Petals 5. Stamens 5-10 or more, inserted at the mouth of the 

 calyx. IHsk lining the calyx-tube, its margin thickened. Carpels 2, included in 

 the calyx-tube ; styles exserted, stigma 2-lobed ; ovule 1, pendulous. Pruit pen- 

 dulous, of 1 or 2 achenes enclosed in the hardened spinous calyx. — Disteib. 

 N. temp, regions, and S. America ; species 8. 



1. A. Eupatorlum, Linn. ; Soiss. PL Orient, ii. 727 ; hairy or villous, 

 leaflets elliptic-ovate or lanceolate acute obtuse or acuminate, coarsely obtusely 

 serrate, bracts slender, calyx-tube villous deeply grooved, outer spines spread- 

 ing. A. lanata, WaU. Cat. 709 ; Wallroth Beitrag. Bot. 1. 64, t. 1, f. 9. A. 

 nepalensis, Don Prodr. 229 ; CarrA. in Jacq. Toy. Sot. 55, t. 68. 



Temperate Himalayas, from Muheee and Kashmir, alt. 3-10,000 to Sikkim, alt. 

 7-10,000 ft. Khasia Mts., alt. 4-6000 ft. Mishmi Hills, Griffith.— Disikib. "West- 

 wards from Persia to the Atlantic, Siberia and Java, N. America, Java ? 



BootstockyiooAy, short or long. Leaves S-7 in.; leaflets 6-21, sessile, alternate 

 often small, hairy on both surfaces ; larger 1-3 in., elliptic-ovate or -obovate rarely 

 orbicular; smaller often orbicular and minute ; petiole slender; stipules large, leafy, 

 ^-lunate, entire or toothed. ifac««jes slender, lengthening in fruit; pedicels reflexed 

 in fruit ; bracts 3-fid or 3-partite. Flowers | in. diam. Petals oblong-obovate, yellow. 

 Calyx-tube J in., hardened in fiiiit, grooved, lobes conniving in fruit ; top of tube with 

 a dense ring of spines which become hooked in fruit and are erect with the outer 

 spreading. — I am quite unable to correlate the India form of this plant with the 

 characters given for the European species so called ; all are more or less glandular 

 and have a deeply furrowed calyx -tube and a horizontal rootstock. — A. javanica, Miq. 

 seems not different as far as a single specimen enables me to judge. 



2. A. pilosa, Ledeb. ; Fl. Boss. ii. 32; sparsely hairy, leaflets elliptic-ovate 

 -obovate or -lanceolate obtuse or acute coarsely obtusely serrate, bracts slender, 

 calyx-tube almost glabrous deeply grooved spines all erect. A. viscidula, Bunge 

 Mem. Sav. JStr. St. Pet^-sh. ii. 100, ex Wa^. Bep. ii. 41. 



Kashmir to Kunawuk, alt. 6-8000 ft., Th/mison, C. B. Clarke. — Distrib. Eussia 

 to Manchuria, China and Japan. 



Very similar to A. Evpaiorivm, but more glabrous than its Indian forms, and calyx 

 almost glabrous with erect spines. — I do not see how A. viscidula differs. 



