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



403 



\ Stem 4^18 in. high, subalate with 4-5 ridges under the fruit. Leaves 1-2 (some- 

 times 3) in., ovate or cordate, oblong. Petals i in. long, white, obovate, Car^ela 

 aad stigmas 3 ; (Drude says 4 but they are nearly invariably 3 ia the Kew plentiful 

 examples). Seeds obovoid-ellipsoid, smooth : testa reticulate, not lax. 



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6. P. ovata, Ledeb. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. \. 528 ; margins of petals not 

 (or slightly) fimbriate, staminodes broadly dilated upwards 8-lobed, capsule 

 4 I in. long obconic below subhemispheric above, style manifest ^^ in, long. 

 MC Frodr. i. 320 ; Ledeb. Ic. Fl Ross. t. 2^; Fl. Moss. i. 263 ; J7./. ^ T. in 

 Jmirn. Linn. Soc. ii. 82 ; Ih'ude in Linmea, xxxix. 320. P. Turczaninovii, 

 M. Fl. Boss. i. 263 ; Ih^e, I. c. 321. P. affinis, //. /. ^ T. I c. ii. 81 ; 

 ^^^^^,1 c. 317. P. Laxmanni, Pall, in Boem. ^- Sch. Sfjst. vi. QdQ\ Ledeb. Fl. 

 ■«o«« 1 264. P. triner\is, Drude, I. c. 322. . 



Temperate and Alpine Himalaya from 6iKKm to Kashjcib, alt. 8000-15,000 ft., 

 frequent,— DisTRiB. Altai Mts. 



Stem 3-8 in. high. Leaves J-| in., ovate or ovate-oblong, often cordate; caxiline 

 usually solitary in the lower half of the stem. Petals |-f in. long, spathulate-ob- 

 °^^®-- Carpels 3, rarely 4, Testa of the seed close (Drude).— This differs from P 

 ?«^o?a bythe smaller size of all its parts and the manifest style. P. cabulica, 

 jfanchm Herb. Griffith, differs by the stems being usually leafless. P. subacaulh, 

 IfL^ ^^^' differs by the leaves being oblong narrowed at their base ; it was col- 

 lected by Dr. Henderson near Yarkand, and appears in his list No. 136 under the 

 name P. maisorcnsis. 



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.7- P. pusilla, Wall, ex H.f. Sf T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 81 ; margins 

 , ^**ls slightly fimbriate or quite entire, staminodes with a very short claw 



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long obovoid- 

 Wall. Cat. 1245 ; 



jardly longer than hroad dilated upwards 3-lobed, capsul 



ejupaoid adnate about ^ its length, style manifest i in. long. 



^. m WigJit. m. p. 45 and in Comp. Hook. Sot, Mag. ii. 315 ; Drude m 



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AmKE Himalaya from Sikkim to Ktoawuh, alt. 12-15,000 ft, Wallich, J. D. K, 



^^^^ro, &c. 



onA A* ^~^^ ^^' ^^°8* Leaves |-| in., reniform or ovate-cordate ; c 

 iW n^ ^° ^^® ^PPer half of the stem. Petals i-| in. long, obo 



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cauline leaf usually 

 vate. Carpels 3. 



esti^ fl*P^^^^' smooth ; testa reticulate not lax.— This species should probably be 

 T^^ated analpine var. ofP. oya^^a, from which it differs in its stunted size and 



shorter 





staminodes. 



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Saxifk-agrastrum. Staminodes cylindric, undivided at the 



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^J" ^•. teneUa, H.f. ^ T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. ii. 80; petals i in. long 

 ttt r . ^*^^te reflexed obovate, capsule i in. long obeordate triquetrous. I>rude 



323. 



ncKXM Himalaya ; alt, 10,000-12,000 ft. ; Lachen and Lachoong, J. 2>. H. 

 peli^p^f-^ in. long, weak. Kadical fear^A- fin. broad, reniform, margin minutely erose; 

 Stam^ ^ adnate fimbriate stipules at the base ; cauline usually 1, cordate-ovate. 

 Sian?' f *^^^' cylindric, glandulose, clavate at its summit. Styles 3, short, but 



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rge shrubs pr trees, iu their young atiategCtensubscandent ^^^^h smaller 

 Corymbs terminal, \yitli deciduous bracts. Flowers all fertile and small, 

 ^^terior flowers of the corymb sterile apetalous with the calyx-lobes peta- 



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