Tas. 6065. 
SAXIFRAGA KorscuylI. 
Native of Asia Minor. 
Nat. Ord. SAxIFRAGACEH.—Tribe SAXIFRAGER. 
Genus Saxtrraca, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI., vol. i. p. 635). 
SaxirraGa (Aizoonia) Kotschyt ; cespitoso-pulvinaris, foliis parvis in cau-. 
diculos duros oblongos floriferos dense imbricatis oblongo-obovatis apice 
rotundatis crasse coriaceis glabris membranaceo-marginatis integerrimis 
v. basin versus denticulatis ambitu remote foveolatis, caulibus floriferis 
erectis glanduloso-pilosis foliosis, foliis spathulato-obovatis apiculatis, 
cymis paucifloris, floribus breviter pedicellatis inconspicuis, calycis tubo 
obconico ovario adnato, lobis triangularibus erectis, petalis parvis spathu- 
latis, staminibus (imperfectis?) brevibus discum marginantibus, stigma- 
tibus reniformi-capitatis. - 7 
S. Kotschyi, Boiss. Diagn., ser. ii. part 2, p. 65; FV. Orient., vol. ii. p. 804, 
This is one of the group of Saxifrages that forms dense hard 
cushion-shaped masses on the mountains of the South of 
Europe and Western Asia, where they are exposed to great 
summer heat and winter cold, without the humidity of a more 
northern or western climate. They are consequently very 
difficult to cultivate in England; and where they have suc- 
ceeded they never form the luxuriant masses that they do in 
the Mediterranean region. S. Kotschyi is a native of precipitous 
rocks in the Cilician Taurus, at an elevation of 6-9000 feet, 
as also of the mountains of Armenia and Cataonia, all in 
Asia Minor, where it was discovered by Aucher, Eloi, the 
French explorer on the Thessalian Olympus. ‘The specimen 
here figured flowered in the Royal Gardens (where it has 
been in cultivation for a good many years) 10 May, 1873, 
and bears evidently imperfect flowers, the petals being 
smaller than in the native specimens, and the stamens and 
the styles quite arrested in growth. : : J 
Drscr. Densely tufted rosettes, which are bluish an 
glaucous green, oblong or cylindric, and one-half to two 
NOVEMBER 1st, 1873. 
