Tas. 8707. 
SAXIFRAGA MANSHURIENSIS. 
Manchuria and Corea. 
SAXIFRAGACEAE. Tribe SAXIFRAGEAE. 
SaxirraGa, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 635. 
Saxifraga (§Boraphila) manshuriensis, Komarov in Acta Hort. Petrop. 
vol. xxii. p. 415; Irving in Gard. Chron. 1915, vol. lviii. p. 184, cum icon. ; 
species S. punctatae, Linn., affinis, foliis majoribus, petiolis et scapo hirsutis, 
inflorescentia contracta, sepalis ciliatis, petalis duplo brevioribus differt. 
Herba succulenta, scapigera. Rhizoma breve, crassiusculum, olia radicalia 
plura, longepetiolata, rotundato-reniformia, 5-6°5 cm. longa, 7-8°25 cm. 
lata, grosse crenata, crenis apiculatis, supra glabra, intense viridia, margine 
minute ciliolata, infra sparsissime pilosula, pallida; petioli 10-14 cm. 
longi, hirsuti, rubelli. Scapus solitarius, circiter 35 cm. longus, pilis 
glanduloso-capitatis densiuscule hirsutus. Panicula terminalis, subglobosa, 
valde contracta, circiter 4 cm. diametro; bracteae lineares, inferiores ad 
2 cm. longae, acutae, rubellae; pedicelli dense glanduloso-pilosi. Flores 
saepe 6-8-meri. Sepala reflexa, oblongo-lanceolata, obtusiuscula, circiter 
2-5 mm. longa, ciliata. Petala spatulato-oblonga, leviter retusa, 3°5 mm. 
longa. Stamina petalis duplo plura; filaments clavata; antherae breviter 
oblongae.. Pistiila rubra, fere ad basin libera, staminibus breviora, 
ampulliformia.—S. punctata, Linn., var. manchuriensis, Engl. Monogr. 
Saxifrag. p. 189.—M. L. Green. 
The Saxifrage which forms the subject of our illus- 
tration was first described, as a variety of S. punctata, 
Linn., in 1872 by Engler. The plant on which the original 
account was based had been collected by Wilford on the 
coast of Manchuria in 1857. The Linnean species with 
which Engler thus associated Wilford’s plant has a wide 
range in northern Asia, arctic America and the Rocky 
Mountains; so far, however, as is yet known, Wilford’s 
Saxifrage appears to be confined to Manchuria and 
northern Corea, where according to Komarov, who in 
1904 first indicated the desirability of regarding it as a 
distinct species, it is to be found in shady damp places on 
stream-banks. From S. punctata S. manshuriensis differs in 
being a more robust plant with larger and thicker leaves, 
in having the petioles and scapes hirsute, and in having 
the inflorescence globose and contracted. The plant from 
Aprit, 1917, : 
