Tas. 8048. 
X. SAXIFRAGA apicunata. 
Of Garden Origin. 
SaXtpRaGacem. Tribe SaxrrraGEa. 
Saxirraca, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 635. 
Saxifraga apiculata, Hngl. in Gard. Chron. 1894, vol. i. p. 556, t. 68; Mottet 
in Rev. Hort. 1902, p. 231, t. 91; W.S. in Journ. Hort. Ser. iii. vol. xliv. 
p. 186; stirps quoad folia ad S. sanctam, Griseb., quoad flores ad 
S. aretioidem, Lapeyr. spectans. 
Plenta cxspitosa, caudiculis sublignosis, densissime foliatis. Folia basalia 
lineari-oblonga, acute cuspidata, 4-6 lin. longa, 1 lin. lata, leviter carinata, 
crassa, usque ad medium vel altius ciliata, apice et margine cartilaginea, 
apice foveola 1, utroque margine foveolis 3-5 instructa. Caules floriferi 
2-34 poll. longi, glanduloso-pilosi, 5—-9-flori, ramulis 1-2-floris. Folia 
caulina subspathulata, circiter 3 lin. longa. Calycis tubus turbinatus, 
1 lin. longus, dense glanduloso-pilosus; lobi ovato-oblongi, apiculati, 13 
lin. longi, glanduloso-ciliati. Petala obovata, 34 lin. longa, 2 lin. lata, 
patentia. Filamenta subulata, 2} lin. longa. Axtherz suborbiculares, 
basi cordate. Ovarium semi-inferum, stylis leviter divergentibus, 2 lin. 
longis, stigmatibus capitellatis.—S. Malyi, X, Hort. ex Gard. Chron. 1894, 
1. 556. S. luteo-purpurea, Hort. l.c., non aliorum. 
Saeifraga apiculata is a plant of somewhat uncertain 
parentage, it is stated, on the authority of the Rev. 
C. Wolley Dod, to have been raised by the late Mr. Franz 
Maly, Curator of the Imperial Gardens, Belvedere, near 
Vienna, by crossing 8. Friderici-Augusti and S. sancta, 
but experimental verification is desirable. S. apiculata is 
a plant of vigorous growth, and flowers in the months 
of February and March, considerably earlier than most of 
the genus, and is especially valuable on that account as a 
greenhouse plant. ‘There is a fine patch of S. apiculata in 
the Rock Garden at Kew, where it flowers freely, but does 
not produce perfect capsules, a fact tending to confirm its 
hybrid origin. The plant figured flowered in the Alpine 
House in March of the present year. 
Descr.—A tufted plant. Stems rather woody, very 
leafy. Basal leaves linear-oblong, sharply cuspidate, about 
half an inch long, slightly keeled, ciliate for at least the 
lower half, with a row of seven to eleven pits on the upper 
surface inside the cartilaginous margin. Flowering stems 
two to three and a half inches long, glandular-hairy, five- 
to nine-flowered. Cauline leaves subspathulate, about a 
DecemBer Ist, 1905. 
