Tab. 6384. 

 SAXIFEAGA Maweana. 



Native of Morocco. 



Nat. Ord. Saxifragace.2e. — Tribe Saxifrages 

 Genus Saxifraga, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 035). 



Saxifraga Maweana; csespitosa, sparse laxe patentira pilosa, surculis lloriferig 

 supeme erectis nudis v. paucifoliatis, foliis longe petiolatis renifonni-orbicu- 

 latis 3-5 lobis, superioribua in axillis gemnias incrassatas stipitatas gerentibus, 

 lobis obtuse 3-5-lobulatis petiolo lato, caulinis lineari-oblongis, panicula longe 

 et laxe ramosa sparsiflora glanduloso-pilosa floribus $ poll. diam. pedicellatis, 

 calycis segmentis ovato-oblongis apice rotundatis tubum subsphericum ex- 

 cedentibus, petalis albis obovato-spatlmlatis, stylis erectis apicibus recurvis. 



S. Maweana, Baker in Oard. Chron. 1871, p. 1355, (cum Ic. Xylog.; Ball, Sjacilty. 

 Fl. Marocc. 448. 



The presence of an Alpine looking Saxifrage of the group of 

 onr English and Scotch S. hypnoides, and with even larger flowers 

 than that plant has, was scarcely to be looked for in the 

 African coasts, for though the said group is essentially West 

 European, extending from Scotland to the greater Atlas, it is 

 to a great extent a moisture-loving one. S. Maweana was 

 discovered, in 1827, by the late eminent botanist, P. B. Webb, 

 of Paris, in its only known habitat, rocks of the Bcni 

 Ilosmar range of mountains opposite Tetuan, at about 2000 

 feet elevation, and by whom it was regarded as a form of 8. 

 fflobulifera, nor was it found to be an unpublished species 

 till it was again gathered by Mr. Maw in 1860, and by him 

 introduced into cultivation. On being referred to Mr. Baker, 

 it was immediately recognised as very distinct from any of the 

 Dactyloides group, and named in honour of its re-discoverer. 

 Latterly it has been fully described in the Spicilegium Flora 

 Maroccanre, by Mr. Ball, in company with whom and Mr. 

 Maw, I had the pleasure of gathering it in its original habi- 

 tat in 1871. The nearest affinity of S. Maweana is, as Mr. 

 Baker has pointed out, the S. globulifera, Desf., a species which 

 extends from the mountains of southern Spain to those of both 



SKl'TEMHEU IsT, 1878. 



