*', 



Ghnjsos^lenium.'] lii. saxipbagace^. (C. B. Clarke.) 401 



scales flowers sessile. C. carnosulum, Maxim, in Bull. Acad. Peters., Mel Biol. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. H-1 5,000 ft., Yeumtong and Kankola 'near the per- 

 petual snow,' J.B.H. 



Leaves h}MMt J in.diam., glossy, very deep green, elliptic, obtuse,' erenate-dentate. 

 n lowers \m\a. Calyx segments purple.— This may prove only an extreme form of 

 t. altermfolium. 



0. C. Griffithii, H.f. 8f T.inJourn. Linn. Soc. ii. 74; stems 4-G iu. 

 ^gnsuberect, leafy at the summit, radical leaves represented by short sheathing 

 «^les, leaves reniform-cordate deeply crenate-lobate, flowers pedicelled. Maxim. 

 ?« Bull. Acad. Petersb., Mel. Biol ix. 759, 



BaoTAN; Griffith, 

 d' 7 ^p ^"^ ^^' ^^^^ ' ^^^^'^ 6~16, very obtuse, often J in. deep.— Very near C. nu- 



\ 



^'-C. tenellum, H.f. 8r T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. ii. 73; stems filiform 



t f.^°^j ^^ interlacing leafy, leaves reniform cordate crenate-lobate, flowers 



scattered pedicelled, seeds smooth shining. Maxim, in Bull. Acad. Petersb., Mel. 

 ^^oL IX. 762. ° 



Tern 



in TT ^°^P^^^*^^ Western Himaiaya ; Kedarkanta in Gttbwhal, Boyle ; Madhari Pass, 

 ^ilUMAox, alt. 10,000 ft., Stra<^key # Winterbottom. 

 Petiol^d^ ^~3 in- long. Leaves f in. broad, TPith 4-8 shallow lobes ; radical long- 



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Lea 



jnibi 



3-S k' ^^'^^Srinosum, H. f. Sf T. in Joum. Ltnn. Soc. ii. 74 ; stem 



760. 



terminal sparingly leafy 

 ides. Maxim, in Bull 



Acad. Peter sb.^ Mel 



baxifraga adoxioides, Oriff. Ic. PL Asiat. t. 570. 

 rlqm^^^'^ Himalaya; Bhotan, alt. 7500-8000 ft., Griffith. Sikkiat, alt. 



2-3 in pubescent and with brown-red wool. Corymb^ when well developed, 



mnr^ ' ^^^ss, with leaf-like bracts at a few of the divisions,— Sometimes stunted and 

 ^® compact. 



r.- 



< 6. PARNASSZA, Ztnn. 



W-i* perennial scapigerous herbs. Scape angular, 1-flowered, often 



entire ^i^ ^^^^ ^^ *^^ middle, more rarely naked or with several leaves. Leaves 

 5 imh -^^^ long-pefioled. Cali/x-tuhe free or adnata to the ovary, the lobes 

 iU(j/"^^^«- Petals 5, white or pale yellow. Stamens 5, peri^ynous or nearly 

 »i4S°l^'^' alternate with 6 large staminodes. Ovari/ 1-celled ; style short 

 lal pir^ ^^^ 6) nearly simple stigmas ; ovules numerous attached to the parie- 

 (iali„ T?^ opposite the stigmas. Capsule superior or half-iuferior, loculici- 

 laj. aVi7"^*lved. Seeds manv, obovoid or subcyhndric, smooth, testa sometimes 

 of the °T®" ^*rdly ^^y ; (i° ^hich point Pamassia differs from the character 

 ^isiRiR V '^"^''/'■«£'«ce« and is therefore placed by some authors elsewhere).— 

 4e In^' "Northern temperate hemisphere, extending south to the mountains of 

 ^^dian Peninsula. Species 12. ^ 



J ^ Presses. Petals entire. 



'^iliap^^ Paluatris, Linn. 



numerous 



^»w iiv n -^ solitary, processes of the staminodes 7-21. 

 Tdll y '^"^•"- 814 ; hrude. in Linnan, xxxix. 307.. 



base 



Eng. Bot. t. 82 ; 



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