Tas. 5967. 
SAXIFRAGA STRACHEYI. 
Native of the Himalaya Mountains. 
Nat. Ord. Saxirracace&,—Tribe, SAXIFRAGES. 
Genus, Saxirraca, Linn. ; (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 635). 
SaxirraGa (Bergenia) Stracheyi; rhizomate crasso repente, foliis amplis 
obovatis obovato-cuneatisve grosse crenatis basi angustatis v. cordatis, 
petiolo basi dilatato, panicula glanduloso-pubescente, calycis lobi 5 
rotundati, petalis spathulatis obovatis v. orbicularibus roseis. 
Saxirraca Stracheyi, Hook. f, and Thoms. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., 
1857, p. 61. 
? S. ciliata, Lindl, in Bot, Reg., 1848, t. 65. 
A near ally of the extensively cultivated S. Uigulata, 
Wallich, of the Himalaya, and very probably a form of that 
plant ; approaching it through the £ crliata of &. ligulata 
(figured as S. ciliata in Tab. 4915 of this work) ; and in the 
fact of our garden specimens having cordate leaves, which is 
very rarely the case with wild ones of Stracheyi, but uniformly 
so with both wild and cultivated ones of 8. liguata. Ina 
living state there is, however, no difficulty in distinguishing 
between the typical forms of Strachey, ciliata, and ligulata, of 
which the former bears the palm for the fine bright pink hue 
of its petals, and the deep red of the ovary. 
S. Stracheyi is a native of the upper elevations of the Western 
Himalaya and Western Tibet; ascending from 10-14,000 
feet, and growing on moist rocky ledges. It varies greatly 
M size, according to elevation and moisture. _ 
The specimen here figured has flowered in the Royal 
Gardens, on an open rock-work, in March, during several years 
past. The plant was raised from seed sent home by Captain, 
now General, Strachey, F.R.S., from Kumaon, in 1851. 
Descr. Rootstock stout, creeping, as thick as the thumb. 
MAY Ist, 1872, 
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