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POTENTILLA nepalensis. 
Red-flowered Nepal Potentilla. 
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA._Nat. Ord. ROSACEA. 
Gen. Char. — Calyx decemfidus, segmentis alternis minoribus. Petala quin- 
que. Pericarpia receptaculo sicco affixa. 
Potentilla nepalensis ; caule erecto multifloro, foliis quinatis caulinis 
ternis, foliolis obovato-lanceolatis acute serratis sericeo-pilosis, stipu- 
lis ovatis, petalis (rubicundis) obcordatis calyce longioribus. 
Stem a foot or a foot and half high, erect, rounded, red, hairy, with the hairs 
long and patent, branched at the extremity. Leaves, the lowermost or 
radical ones, long, red, hairy, petiolate, quinate, with their leaflets ob- 
ovato-lanceolate, sharply and regularly serrated almost to their base, 
purplish, veined, silky with appressed hairs ; the cauline leaves ternate, 
nearly sessile, much smaller, more lanceolate and acute than the others. 
Stipules upon the stem, large, green, ovate, scarcely acute, entire, almost 
glabrous. 
Flowers terminal, upon subpaniculated, branches ; pedicels one or two inches 
long, hairy, red. Calyx, with the five outer segments small, green, 
spreading ; the five inner ones closing over the bud or fruit, and soon 
becoming brown. Petals exceeding the calyx in length, obcordate, of a 
beautiful reddish-purple, delicately marked with veins. Stame7is nume- 
rous. Anthers purplish-brown. Pistil : Germen ovate, greenish, smooth. 
Style from just below the summit of the germen, rather long. 
This interesting species of Potentilla flowered at the Bota- 
nic Garden, Edinburgh, in July 1823. Its seeds had been 
received by Dr Graham from Nepal, whence they had been 
transmitted by Dr Wallich. 
Even in the leaves and stipules, I am not aware of any 
species of Potentilla with which this one would be liable to be 
confounded ; and the colour of its flowers is unlike that of any 
individual of the genus which has hitherto been published. 
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