S26 BO SAC JEM. [Potentilla. 



or broadly obovate, usually shorter tban the calyx, pink. Carpels 

 many, tomentose. Fruit globose ; drupes many, hoary, red turning to 

 black when ripe. 



Dehra Dun. Distbib. W. Himalaya up to 8,000 ft. and eastward to 

 Sikkim, W. and S. India to Ceylon ; also in Burma and Java. Flowers 

 in Dehra Dun during Feb. and March. The fruit of this species is popu- 

 larly regarded as the hlacJcherry of India. There are several varieties. 



3. FRAGARIA. Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 343. 



Perennial scapigerons herbs, with creeping stolons. Leaves digi* 

 tately 3- rarely 5-foliolate, very rarely pinnate or simple ; stipules 

 adnate to tbe petiole. Flowers white or yellow, often polygamous. 

 Calyx persistent, with 5 bracteoles at its base ; lobes 5, valvate in bud- 

 Petals 5. Stamens many, persistent. Carpels many, on a convex 

 receptacle ; styles ventral, persistent j ovule I, ascending. Achenes 

 many, minute, sunk in the surface of a large fleshy receptacle. Species 

 about 8, inhabiting temp, and alpine regions of the N. Hemisphere ; 

 also in S. America and the Mascerene Islands. 



F. indica. Andr.Bot. Rep. t 479 ; Boxh. Fl. Ind. ii, 520 ; W. ^ A. Prod. 

 WO; F. B. I.ii,343 sWattE.D. F. malayana, Eoa;b. Lc. 



A perennial herb with a stout rootstock and many long slender prostrate 

 stems, more or less silky hairy. Leaves distant ; stipules leafy, toothed ; 

 petioles i-5. in., very slender; leaflets usually 3, stalked or sessile, 

 i-'ih in. long, obovate, serrate, crenate or toothed, membranous. Pedioncles 

 axillary, solitary, 1 -flowered, equalling the petioles ; hracteoles large, 

 cuneate-obovate, 3-fid. Floivers i-\ in. in disim. Calyx-lohes ovate or 

 lanceolate. Petals obovate, emarginate, yellow. Fruit globose or 

 oblong, bright-red, spongy, insipid. 



Dehra Dun, N. Oudh and in the Gorakhptir District. Disteib. Temp, 

 and sub -tropical Himalaya from the Indus to Assam, up to 8,000 ft., 

 Khasia Hills, Nilgiris, Penang ; also in Afghanistan, the Malay Islands, 

 Japan, Corea, and Formosa. The fruit is quite tasteless and not worth 

 eating. 



The Strawberry (F. vesca, Linn ) is grown to a large extent within the 

 area of this flora, but chiefly in the neighbourhood of large towns. 

 Owing to the need of more frequent importations of suitable varieties 

 from Europe the quality of the fruit is usually inferior. As a wild 

 plant it is found abundantly on the Himalaya at variotis elevations 

 between 5,00ij and 13,000 ft, 



4. POTENTILLA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 8i5. 



Perennial herbs, rarely shrub.s. Leaves compound ; stipules adnate 

 to the petiole. Flowers white or yellow, rarely red, solitary or in 





