Refugiun Botanicwn. | [| April, 1868. 
TAB. 2. 
Natural Order Rosace2x. 
Tribe DryapDE. 
Genus Porentiuya, L. 
P. Garrepvensis (i. Meyer). Caule diffuso ascendente vel decumbente 
piloso, foliis pinnatis paucijugis supra subglabris infra parce pilo- 
sis, segmentis obovatis vel oblongis, profunde serratis, stipulis ovatis 
integris, pedunculis oppositifoliis brevibus unifloris, bracteis calyce 
excedentibus, petalis luteis, carpellis canaliculatis glabris.—Harv. & 
Sond. fl. Cap. vol. ii. p. 288. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope, being the only species of 
the large genus Potentilla that is known there. It is very rare, 
having been only, to our knowledge, gathered by Drege and 
Cooper, from whom our specimens were procured. We obtained 
it in the Orange River Free State. 
Root perennial. Stems a foot or more long, herbaceous, diffuse, 
branched, hairy, decumbent or ascending. Stipules ovate, entire, 
hairy, spreading or even reflexed. Petioles densely hairy, the 
lower ones more than an inch long. Lully-developed leaves two 
inches or more long, an inch broad, pinnate, the divisions of the 
lower two-thirds reaching down to the rachis, the lowest distant, 
obovate, deeply inciso-dentate, the upper divisions not reaching 
quite down to the rachis, the terminal one ternate, texture her- 
baceous, both sides bright green, the upper surface subglabrous, 
the lower slightly hairy on the veins and the margin a little 
ciliated. lowers solitary on short axillary peduncles, three- 
quarters of an inch broad when fully expanded. The bracts 
ovate, slightly exceeding the ovate sepals, both hairy. The petals 
bright yellow, obovate, about a quarter of an inch deep. Calyx 
reflexed when old. ‘The carpels very numerous, roundish, naked. 
The stamens slightly exceeding the styles.—J. G. B. 
This interesting plant was raised from seed by Mr. Thos. 
Cooper, and the drawing was made from a plant of his growing. 
It thrives on light sandy loam, and requires the temperature of 
the greenhouse.--W. W. S. 
