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Spec. Cuar. Leaflets obovate: braoteoles spreading, wedges 
shaped, much larger and broader than the segments of the calyx, 
deeply 3-5-toothed at the apex: peduncles axillary, solitary, 1- 
flowered : flowers small, yellow. , 
Neilgherries. Deyradhoon. Flowering ali the year. The re- 
: geptacles are insipid and not eatable. : 
(2) F. Roxsurcun. (W. §& 4.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I, p, 300. annot. 
Syn. F. Indica, Roxb. fl. Ind. Il. p. 520. 
-Sprc. Car. Roots tuberous: leaves $-5-foliolate ; leaftete 
serrate, hairy: segments of the calyx dentate-serrate, with the 
inter 5 ‘incurved over the fruit: peduncles solitary, 1-flowered ; 
flowers yellow. : 
Banks of ‘the Brahmapootra river. Khasia mountains. Assam, 
Flowering in the cold season. The fruit is perfectly insipid. 
GENUS UI. POTENTILLA. 
Keosandria Polygynia. Ser: Syst: 
Deriy. From Potens, powerful, alluding to the supposed medical 
qualities of some of the species. 
Gen. Cyar, Herbaceous or suffrutescent plants: leaves com- 
pound: stipules adnate to the petiole: calyx concave at the bot- 
tom, 4-5-cleft, with 4-5 bracteoles: petals 4-5: achenia numer-- 
ous, collected into a head on a flat dry receptacle: style lateral : 
seeds suspended. 
(1) P. xteingana. (W.& A} 
Ident. W. & A. prod. ¥. p. 300. 
Engrav. Wight’s Ill. I. t. 85. 
Spec. Cuar. Stems declinate and-with the petioles and pedun- 
cles hirsute ; leaves patmately 5-foliolate ; leaftets cuneate-oblong, 
rounded at the apex, crenate-toothed, the nerves beneath clothed 
with silky hairs: stipules lanceolate, entire; calycine-segments ob- 
long, obtuse: achenia wrinkled: racemes corymbose: flowers pe-. 
dicelled, yellow. - 
Neilgherries. 
(2) P. surrna. (Linn. ) 
Ident, W.& A. prod. I. p. 300.—Dec. prod. If, p. 580. 
Syn. P. Heynei, Roth. Dec. |. ¢. 
