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LiL SAXiFRAOACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 



ISanfragd. 



C - 8. S. arifttulata, H.f. ^ T. inJoum. Linn. Soc. ii. 68; tufts mosslike, 

 stems 1^-3 in. glandular but not woolly-pubescent upwards, leaves with recurved 

 margins and terminated by a deciduous linear awn, petals broadly obovate. 

 Engler Monog. Saxifrag. 121. 



: SiKKiM, alt. 13,000-18,000 ft.; Yeumtong and Lachen, J. B. H. 



Stem-leaves \ in., shining, glabrous. Sepals glabrous, slightly adnate to thenpe 



carpels. Petals \-\ in. long. 



Var. 2 ; stem-leaves much larger lanceolate-linear somewhat overlapping eacii 

 other.— Sikkim, Samdong, J. D. H. This variety approaches 5. brachypoda, Don. 



9. S. sagrinoides, H. /. 8f T. in Jounu Linn. Soc. ii. 68 ; tufts mosslike, 

 stems 1 in. woolly-pubescent up^yards, leaves striate but hardly with recurved 

 margins rarely terminated by a deciduous awn^ petals oblong. JEnglet' Monog* 

 Saxifrag. 121. ' 



SiKxiM, alt, 10,000-18,000 ft.; Lachen, &c., J. D. H. Kumaon, alt. 13,000 ft.: 

 Ealum, Strachey ^- Winterbfdtom . 



Stein-leaves hardly \ in. long, glabrous. Sepals glabrous, slightly adnate to fmit- 

 ing carpels. Petals scarcely \ in. long. Fruit small. Seed trigonous, subglobose. 

 smooth. — Hardly to be distinguished from S. aristulata. Moreover Sir J. 1>. -Hoozer 

 collected in Sikkim intermediate^ forms having the woolly pubescent peduncle of 'j. 



saginoides, with the leaves and stature of 8, aristulata. 



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Upper stem-leaves not overlapping each other ; Jlowers corymhosej rarely 

 reduced to one in stained examples, 



10. S. latlflora, H.f. ^ T. inJoum. Linn. Soc. ii. 71; flowers 3-1 

 large, sepals ovate herbaceous large, radical leaves smaller than the stem-leaves. 

 'Engler monog. Saxifrag . 122. 



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Sikkim, alt. 13,000 ft. ; Kankala, V. D. H. . \ 



Stems 4-8 in. high, glabrous below, glandular-pubescent above. Leaves oblong- 

 ^ elliptic; radical petiolate, glandulose-ciliate ; cauline IJ by ^-1 in. Petals or^^' 

 . oblong, naked at the base, a little exceeding the sepals. Styles very short. Capsu 

 ovate-oblong. — Eesembles S. diversifolia but has finer flowers. 



11. S. Kirculus, Znm. ; i)C. Prodr. iv.44, 

 glabrous radical petioled narrow-spathulate cauline oblon 

 ends, flowers 3-1, petal 

 Linn. Soc. xiii. 372 ; Jl 



leaves suV 

 ^A at both 

 Trans. 



Monog. Saxifrag 



narrow obovate. Eng. Bot. t. 1009; Don m y- 

 f ^ T. in Jaum. Linn. Soc. ii. 09 ; Boiss. Fl Orient 



Var. 1. typica; stems 6-12 in. 1-3-flowered, cauline leaves ^-1 i"-' ^^^V 



_3 times the '"*™^ 



golden with red dots and 2 pits at the base, styles very short. Not yet collec 



Var. 1. typica; stems 6-12 in. 1-3-flowered, cauline leaves ^-1 i"-' ^^P ig 

 strongly defiexed, base often brown-villous externally, petals 2-3 times the s^ep ^^ 



India.— DiSTUiB. Arctic regions ; Alps of Europe to the Caucasus. ..^„ 



y^^^ Var. 2.indi€a; peduncles very brown villous, capsiile much shorter oval^-o^^^^^j 

 sepals * " ' " ■• - - - . . - ^ ._• 



styles 

 North 



\o}> Var. 3. hirculoides (sp.) Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Bat. t. 78 ; stems 2-3 ^\*^^^®"j2 

 villous upwards ; like var. 2 but the petals have no pits or glands at the base a 

 shorter than sepals, or scarcely exceed them. o. 



Kashmir, JizcjwtfTTWw^ Western Tibet, alt. 17,000 ft.; Balch Pass, btn 



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4^10 



^v^V Var. 4. subdioica; like var. 3, but the stems are 3-6 in. high, ^^^ *^^"^ gom« 

 shortly corymbose or altogether congested flowers; the stigmas are obscure an 



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