Tas. 7056, 
SAXIFRAGA LATEPETIOLATA. 
Native of Spain. 
Nat. Ord. Saxtrracacem.—Tribe SAXIFRAGEA. 
Genus Saxirraca, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 635.) 
Saxirgaca (Nephrophyllum) latepetiolata; erecta, robusta, ebulbifera, tota 
cinereo-viridis et glanduloso-villosa, caule robusto subsucculento folioso, 
foliis infimis rosulatis longe et late petiolatis, petiolo e basi ad apicem 
sensim dilatato superne concavo, lamina profunde 3-loba, lobis cuneatis 
grosse crenatis v. lobulatis, supremis brevius petiolatis flabelliformibus, 
floralibus sessilibus oblongis, floribus ad apices ramorum congestis albis. 
erectis breviter pedicellatis, calycis lobis oblongis obtusis, petalis sepalis 
vix duplo longioribus cuneato-obovatis 3-nerviis, staminibus inclusis, ovario 
infero, stylis erectis, stigmatibus capitatis. 
S. latepetiolata, Wilkomm § Lange, Prodr. Flor. Hisp. vol. iii. p. 120; 
Wilkomm Il. Fl. Hisp. vol. i. p. 7, t. 6. 
S. geranioides, var. 8. irrigua, Wilk. in Bot. Zeit. 1847, p. 431. 
A remarkable species, owing to the great breadth of the 
petioles ; and according to its author an extremely rare 
plant, having hitherto been found only on one mountain 
in Spain, the Sierra Sta. Maria, one of the Cerro de Chiva 
range in Valentia, at an elevation of about 5000 feet above 
the sea. There it is very rare, growing with a closely 
allied species, S. Cossoniana, Wilk., from which it differs 
in the shortly pedicelled flowers, small petals, and the 
absence of bulbs in the basal leaf sheaths. The Kew and 
native specimens are of an ashy-grey colour, but Wilkomm, 
describing the native specimens, says that the stem and 
leaves beneath are reddish. Its affinity is with the Pyrenean 
S. geranioides, to which species it was originally referred 
by its author. ~ 
The Royal Gardens are indebted to M. Barbey of 
Valleyres, Canton Vaud, who obligingly sent seeds in 1887, 
which produced plants that flowered in the open ground 
in April, 1888, and continued flowering till September. 
Dusor. A hardy biennial, of a grey-green colour, clothed 
May Ist, 1889. z 
