Tab. 5849. 

 SAXIFRAGA aretioides. 



Aretia-like Saxifrage. 



Nat. Ord. Saxifrages. — Decandria Digynia. 

 Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 5377.) 



Saxieraga (Aizonia) aretioides ; dense csespitosa, caulibus pedunculis calyci- 

 busque glanduloso-viscidulis, foliis alternis sessilibus coriaceis glaucis, 

 rosularum lineari-spathulatis subtriquetris, caulinis Knearibus obtusis 

 integerrimis glanduloso-ciliatis, floribus corymbosis densis, calycis 

 laciniis ovatis obtusis petalis obovatis luteis brevioribus. 



Saxifraga aretioides, Lapeyrouse Fl. Pyr. t. 13. DC. & Duby, Bot. Gall. v. 1, 

 p. 208. DC. Prodr. v. 4, p. 21. Flore Franc, v. 4, p. 362. 



A pretty perennial-leafed hardy Saxifrage, a native of 

 crevices of rocks in the Pyrenees, and apparently confined to 

 that mountain range, but closely allied to S. diapensoides, S. 

 casta, and others of the same group, which extends from the 

 Spanish Alps to the mountains of Turkey and N. India. 

 The habit is very much that of various species of tufted 

 Alpine Androsace (Aretia L.), but the persistent foliage and 

 the facility with which it may be propagated renders it a far 

 more eligible rockwork plant than these. The specimen 

 here figured flowered in the Koyal Gardens in April of the 

 present year, and has been long in cultivation there, the 

 record of their introducer being lost. 



Descr. Moot long, slender, burrowing in the crevices of 

 rocks, branching and bearing a profusion of short tufted 

 leafy branchlets half an inch to one inch long. Leaves 

 densely imbricate and revolute at the top of the branches, one 

 sixth of an inch to one quarter of an inch long, thickly cori- 

 aceous or cartilaginous, glaucous, linear-oblong from an 

 ovate base, obtuse, glandular-ciliate, furnished on the upper 



JL'LY 1st, 1870. 



