Tas. 6603. 
SAXIFRAGA DIVERSIFOLIA. — 
Native of the Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. SaxtrraGEx.—Tribe EusaxtrraGex. 
Genus Saxtrraga, Linn. ; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 635.) 
SaxrrraGa (Hirculus) diversifolia; caule erecto folioso superne corymboso-ramoso 
glanduloso y. glabrato inferne glabro v, subvilloso, foliis radicalibus gracile 
petiolatis ovatis v. ovato-cordatis acutis integerrimis, caulinis sessilibus ovatis 
v. ovato-oblongis acutis semi-amplexicaulibus, marginibus basi spe glanduloso- 
pilosis, corymbo glanduloso-pubescente foliaceo-bracteato, ramis erecto- patentibus 
pauci- v. multifloris, floribus pedicellatis aureis, calycis tubo brevi obconico 
5-gono, limbi segmentis ovato-oblongis obtusis dorso glandulosis, petalis 
obovatis patenti-reflexis obscure impresso-punctatis marginibus nudis y. basin 
versus glandulis paucis stipitatis, stylis brevibus, capsula ovato-oblonga, 
seminibus angulatis subplicatis. 
S. diversifolia, Wall. in Sternb. Saxifr. Suppl. t. 22; DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 44; 
Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. iv. t. 21; Hook. f. et Thoms. in Journ. Linn, 
Soc. Bot. vol. ii. p. 70; Engler Monog. Sazifr. p. 125; Clarke in Hook f. 
Fil. Brit. Ind. vol. ii. p. 393. 
S. parnassifolia, Wall. Cat. n. 451, partim ; Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii. 
p. 405; Sternbd, l. ¢. t. 25. 
S. Moorcroftiana, Wall. Cat. n. 453; Sternb, Ll. c. t. 24. 
S. lysimachoides, Klotzsch in Reise Pr. Wald. Bot. t, 42. 
This is by far the largest species of Saxifrage belonging 
to the group of S. Hirculus, L., which is eminently a 
Himalayan group; the type of it being the only species 
that is found beyond that range of mountains, and from 
whence it extends westwards into the northern parts of 
England and south of Scotland (where, however, it is very 
rare), and throughout the Arctic Circle, retaining its 
character everywhere with much constancy, except in the 
Himalaya, where it is represented by four very marked 
varieties, 
The habit of 8. diversifolia is quite that of a Parnassia 
in respect of its stem and foliage, and it inhabits similarly 
boggy places, which it adorns with its bright golden flowers. 
JANUARY Ist, 1882. 
