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SAXIFRAGA thysanodes. 
The coarse-fringed Indian Saxifrage. 
DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. SAXIFRAGACEA. (SAXIFRAGES, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 567.) 
SAXIFRAG A.—L. 
$. BERGENIA, Mench. 
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Calyx basi gamosepalus, ovario non adherens, lobis obtusis ascendentibus. 
Semina angulosa levia. Scapus crassus. Truncus basi suffrutescens. 
Flores subcymosi, purpurei v. albi. Folia coriacea, perennantia, basi in 
vaginam expansa.—DC. Prodr. 4. 37. 
S. thysanodes ; foliis obovatis grossè crenato-serratis utrinque (subtus præ- 
sertim) hirsutis fimbriis validis marginatis, scapo glabro ebracteato foliis 
breviore, racemo parvo congesto subramoso, calyce glaberrimo basi ob- 
tuso laciniis obtusissimis petalis subrotundis parüm brevioribus. 
The confusion that reigns among the Bergenian Saxifrages 
of India, has been mentioned at fol. 65 of the volume of this 
work for 1843. It has no doubt arisen from the inadvertent 
intermixture of different species under the same name, as is 
sufficiently shewn by the example before us, which was sent 
from India as the true S.ciliata. But it cannot be that, 
because its inflorescence is compact and nearly simple, its 
leaves hirsute on both sides, and its calyx perfectly smooth. 
It is in reality a plant of which dried specimens were distri- 
buted from the India House, before the return of Dr. Wallich, 
under the name of S. ligulata. But it differs from S. ligulata 
in its short petals, more diminutive inflorescence, and hirsute 
crenated leaves, which are by no means cordate, as those of 
ligulata always are. 
To us it appears to constitute a form of the Bergenian 
Saxifrages, quite as distinet from all the published species as 
they are from each other, and we have accordingly named it 
in allusion to the coarse fringes of its leaves. 
It is a pretty robust hardy perennial, growing not more 
than six or eight inches in height, and flowering in April. 
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