400 



glaT)roii9. 

 ii. 74. 



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Lii. SAXiFRAGACE^, (C. B. Clarke.) 



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ITiarella. ' 



Wall Cat. 437: DC. Prodr. iv. 50; H.f, ^ T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. 



from Bhotan to 



NiPAL, alt/ 



Temperate Central and Eastern Himalaya; 

 8-11,000 ft.; Wallick Grijfith, J. D. K, Szc—DismiB. Japan. 



Stem 6-18 in. high, pubescent. Leaves pilose on both surfaces, lower long-peti- 

 oled, blade 1-?? in, diam. Sepals ^m. long, whitish, glandular. Petals when present 

 shorter than the sepals, . Bipe carpels one i in. long, the other -^ in. 



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5, CKRVSOSFZiENZUBK, Xmn. 



Weak, succulent herbs, growing in damp or watery places. Leaves undivided, 

 petioled ; stipules 0. Flowers axillary and terminal, short-pedicelled, small, gr^en 

 or yellow, 4-merous in the Indian species, rarely 5-merous, Calyx-tuhe adnate 

 to the ovary ; lobes 4, imbricate. Petals 0. Stamens 8 (or 4), subepigynous. 

 Ovary 1-celled, 2-lobed above; styles short; ovules mimerous, attached to 

 parietal placentae alternating with the stigmas. Capsule half-superior, dehiscing 

 at top crosswise. Seeds small, ellipsoid.— DtsTRiB. Species 22 ; North Europe* 

 Asia (South to the Himalaya) and A aerica ; in the Andes to Magellan's Straits. 



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Leaves opposite. 



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shining chestnut-brown. 



1.' C. nepalense, Don Prodr. 210; glabrous, branched, or m water 

 tufted, leaves ovate or subcordate obtuse crenate, flowers subsessile, seeds smootn 



WalL Cat. 438; DC Prodr. iv. 48; H. /. f^-^^ 

 Joum. Linn. Soc. ii. 72; Maxim, in Bull. Acad. Petersb, Mel. Biol ix. i^^., 



Temperate Himalaya; from Bhotax to Ktjmaon, alt. 7000-10,000 ft., frequent- 

 A decumbent, "weak species, with branches 6-8 in. long, closely resembling t/- op- 



po5i/;i/b/iw7n, L., which only differs in having its leaves entire or obsoletelycrenate. ^ 

 Maximowicz {in Bull. Acad. Petersh. MeL Biol ix. 767) has founded a new nv^^' 



layan species C. sulcatum, Maxim on }VaU. Cat. 438 ; which differs from C. nepalens 



in having the seeds profoundly 12-sulcate ; but the examples of Wall. Cat. 438 at lie 



exhibit the smooth seeds of C. 7iepalense. 



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2. C. trichospermum/jE'J//?^. MSS. ; IL f. 4: T. in Joum. Linn, &^^ 

 ii. 73 ; glabrous, branched, leaves ovate or elliptic obtuse creuate, flowers shony 

 pedicelled, seeds globose shining chestnut-brown covered with golden 1-ceii 

 linear papillae. Maxim, in Bull Acad. Petersb. Mel. Biol ix. 767. ' 



EdgeworiK Madden ; D^^l 



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Temperate Western Himalaya, alt. 7-8000 ft.; 

 alt. 8000 ft., in Ktjmaox, StracL ^ Winterbottom. 



A rather stouter plant than C. nepalense^ the leaves J-| in. diam. 



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Leaves alternate ; plant glabrous. 



long-petioled suborbicular crenate-Tobed, flowers subsessile.^^ y 

 '. /. ^ T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. ii. 73 ; Boiss. Fl Orient, n. o ^ 



3. C. altemifollum, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 48 ; stem weak succulen 



suberect 2-8 in. long, leafless (or 1-leaved) except at the base and the 9^^ ,| 

 mdical leaves l^*^"* ■«-^+i^i«j «..t i.;^-_i j__ i.-l-.! ii,^-^^-..^ ani^aAssile. -*^'y 



Bot t. 64 ; // 



Maxim, in Bull Acad. Petersb. Mel Biol ix. 700. 



SiicKiM, alt. 12,000-15,000 ft. ; Kankola, J. D. J?.— Distrib. Alpine 

 Europe, Asia and N, America. 



Leaves \~l\n. diam,, oval or cordate, rounded at the top, floral leaves ^ 

 yellow. Seeds shining, smooth. ■■{::' 



4. C. camosum, H.f. 8f T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. ii. 73; ^^-^'lupa 

 2-4 in. liigh erect thick leafy, radical leaves represented by short sae"''' 



and Arctic 



golden 



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