Tas. 6680. 
SAXIFRAGA coRTUSIFOLIA. 
Native of Japan. 
Nat. Ord. SaxtFraGacex.—Tribe SAXIFRAGEE. 
Genus Saxrrraca, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol.i. p. 635.) 
Saxirraca (Hydatica) cortusifolia ; estolonifera, paleaceo-pilosa v. glabrata, foliis 
omnibus radicalibus crasse petiolatis rotundatis basi cordatis v. subreniformibus 
breviter 5-c -lobis crassis setosis denum glabratis, lobis crenatis rotundatis v. 
rarius subacutis, vaginis brevibus longe ciliatis, scapo valido, panicula ampla 
ramosa ramis elongatis erecto-patentibus, sepalis liberis oblongis obtusis, petalis 
totis albis anguste linearibus acutis 1-3 ceteris multoties longioribus, carpellis 
ultra medium connatis, stylis continuis elongatis rectis, stigmatibus parvis. 
S. cortusifolia, Sieb. e¢ Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. vol. i. p. 190, Ykumayu-ssai, 
Soo Bokf. vol. viii. fol. 12-15 ; Maxim. Mel. Biol. dec. xii. p. 599. 
A very near ally of the old “Strawberry Saxifrage,” 
8. sarmentosa, L. (Plate 92 of this work), and still more 
near S. Fortunei (Plate 5877), which, indeed, Professor 
Maximovicz has doubtfully regarded as a variety of it; but 
differing from the former in the want of strawberry-like 
runners, and form of the leaves; and from the latter in the 
much smaller flowers with entire petals. Allare remarkable 
for the inequality of the petals, of which one or more exceed 
the rest by many times their length; a peculiarity in the 
floral development repeated in a plant of widely different 
affinity, lately figured in this work, the Chionographis 
japonica, Plate 6510. All are natives of South China and 
Japan. oe 
S. cortusifolia is, probably, a very variable plant, several 
forms of it being figured in the Japanese botanical work 
quoted as the Soo Bokf., differing greatly in the form and 
cutting of the lobes of the leaf. The specimen here figured 
was communicated by Messrs. Veitch, who raised it from 
Japanese seed sent by their admirable collector, Mr. Maries. 
It flowered in October. 
Desor. A stout herbaceous perennial, more or less clothed 
MakcH Ist, 1883. 
