Tas. 5889. 
SAXIFRAGA (arzoonIA) LONGIFOLTA. 
Native of the Pyrenees. 
es 
Nat. Ord. SaxtrraGacea.— Tribe SAXIFRAGER. 
Genus Saxirraaa, Linn. ; (Benth. and Hook. J. Gen, Pl., vol. ii. p. 635). 
SaxirraGa (Aizoonia) longifolia ; scapo foliis junioribus et inflorescentia 
glanduloso-pubescentibus, foliis 1-3 pollicaribus densissime rosulatis 
patentibus rectiusculis anguste lineari-oblongis spathulatisve obtusi- 
usculis cartilagineo-marginatis, scapo valido recto & basi florifero, 
inflorescentia confertiflora pyramidato-cylindrica, ramis perplurimis 
patulis basi bractea foliacea instructis, pedicellis basi bracteolatis, calycis 
lobis ovato-rotundatis tubum hemisphericum subequantibus, petalis 
orbiculatis patentibus albis brunneo-punctatis, seminibus ovato-triquetris 
tenuissime rugulosis. 
SaxirraGa longifolia, La Peyr. Flor. Pyr., p. 26, t. xi.; Sternberg Revis, 
Saz., p. 1, t. i.; DC. Prod., vol. iv. p. 19. 
SaxirraGa lingulata, var. a; Don in Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. xiii. p. 391. 
Cuonprosea longifolia, Haw. Enum. Saxtf., p. 11. 
A very striking species, commonly cultivated on the Con- 
tinent, but very rarely in England, where, however, it 
succeeds admirably in the open air, or in a partially shaded 
rock-work, forming brilliant green rosettes of leaves, four to 
six inches in diameter, and sending up in midsummer a truly 
glorious pyramidal nodding thyrsus, a foot high, of white 
flowers, that lasts for several weeks. It is a native of the 
higher valleys of the Pyrenees, at the Baths of Luchon, and 
elsewhere, at elevations of 2000 to 7000 feet above the sea. 
The specimens figured flowered in the Royal Gardens in 
July last. 
Dxscr. Plant forming convex bright-green rosettes, three 
to seven inches in diameter ; young leaves, scape, and inflo- 
rescence covered with a viscid glandular pubescence. Leaves 
MARCH Ist, 1871, 
