Lachemilla venusta (Cham. & Schltdl.) Rydb.

Lachemilla venusta (Cham. & Schlecht.) Rydberg
Alchemilla venusta Cham. & Schlecht. Linnaea 5 : 573. 1830.
Sarmentose perennial, often rooting at the nodes ; stems 1-4 dm. long, hirsute with spreading hairs ; basal leaves and lower stem-leaves petioled, the upper sessile ; stipules more or less connate, cleft with lanceolate lobes ; lower petioles 1-6 cm. long, hirsute ; blades of the basal leaves reniform, 1-3 cm. broad, deeply cleft into 5-7 broadly cuneate, sharply serrate divisions, dark-green, densely and coarsely pubescent beneath, less densely so above ; uppermost leaf -blades sessile and 3-cleft ; flowers cymose in small clusters near or at the ends of the branches, nearly sessile ; hypanthium strigose, urceolate, about 1.5 mm. long; bractlets lanceolate, about 0.5 mm. long, acute, as long as the sepals and slightly narrower; stamens 2, short; pistils 2-4; achenes ovoid, acute, somewhat compressed.
Type locality : Jalapa, Mexico. [Not given in the original publication.] Distribution : Central Mexico to Guatemala.