Grielum. | ROSACE (Harv.) 305 
Has. Zwartland, Thunberg! Ried Valley, Cape, and near Saldanha Bay, £. ¢ Z. Bas ai. 5 ates 
Salt R., W.H.H. Groenekloof and between Bergvalley and Langevalley, Drege / Obs od lee 
Krumriver, Zeyher! (var. 8.) (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd., D.) a: 
Root filiform. Stems many from the crown, procumbent, 8-12 inches long, Nebel (69 
densely leafy and branched. Leaves 14 inch long, of which half is petiole ; the mul- 
tifid lamina fan-shaped in outline. Peduncles 1-2 inches long. Flowers large and 
bright yellow, the petals broadly obovate, over an inch in length and breadth. 
2. G. humifusum (Thunb. Cap. 509) ; leaves pinnatifid or sub-bipin- 
natifid, pinnati-sections 5-6, broadly linear, obtuse, simple or lobulate 
toward the point, cobwebby above, cano-tomentose with sub-reflexed 
edges beneath ; calyx segments ovate, acute or acuminate, persistently 
tomentose. DC. l.c. H. § Z./ 456. G. flagelliforme, L. Mey. 
Var. 8. parviflorum ; leaves and flowers smaller. Drege/ 7516. 
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Has. Sandy places near Saldanha Bay, and Karroo near Beaufort, Z. g Z./ Oli- qT ee Qa 
fant Riv., Holriver ; also between Kaus, Natvoet and Doornport, and near Verlept- fhe [oa N 
pram on the Gariep, Drege/ (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd., D.) 
Stems trailing, 1-2 feet long, angular, cobwebby, becoming glabrate. Leaves 
scattered or somewhat fascicled, 2 inches long, of which less than half is petiole ; 
the lamina in outline, ovate or ovato-lanceolate ; segments 2-3 lines wide. Flowers 
much smaller than in G. tenwifolium ; the petals less than an inch long, bright yel- 
low ; in 8. } inch long. 
3. G. obtusifolium (E. Mey.!); stems and whole plant densely ¢ovefed 
with white wool; leaves pinnatifid, pinnati-sections 5-6, linear-oblong, 
short and very obtuse, the lowest sometimes 1-2-lobulate; calyx-seg- 
ments broadly deltoid, very short, obtuse or subacute, densely and per- 
sistently woolly. Zey./ 165. 
Has. Nieuweveld, between Brackriver and Uitvlugt ; and Silverfontein, 7 
Springbokkeel, Zeyher! Namaqualand, Wyley! (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd., BD.) 
Very near G. humifusum, but much more woolly, with smaller, less divided leaves, 
and much shorter and broader calyx-lobes. Flowers nearly as in G. ij 
Orprer L. SAXIFRAGACEZ, DC. 
(By W. H. Harvey.) 
Calyx 5-cleft (rarely 3-4-7-10-cleft), regular, adnate or free ; the 
sepals rarely separate, commonly cohering below into a tube ; the limb 
mostly persistent, sometimes enlarged in fruit. Petals as many as the 
calyx-lobes and alternate with them, rarely wanting. Stamens inserted 
with the petals, either as many and alternate with them, or twice as 
many : rarely fewer or indefinitely numerous ; anthers 2-celled, split- 
ting. Ovary either free or more or less adnate with the calyx-tube, of 
2 (rarely of 3 or 5) distinct, or more or less cohering, or altogether con- 
nate carpels, whose inflexed edges form the complete or incomplete 
dissepiments : placente on the inflexed edges of the carpels; ovules ana- 
tropous, indefinite, rarely few or subsolitary. Styles as many as the 
carpels and terminal, distinct or imperfectly (rarely completely) con- 
to. oe 
nate; stigmata simple. Frwit capsular, splitting at maturity im 
carpellary elements, each carpel opening on its ventral suture. 
with fleshy albumen, very rarely exalbuminous. eo 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, very various in aspect ; the Savifragee al 
out ee vanpaaxs and colder regions of the globe, chiefly of the north 
the Cunoniee and Escaloniew chiefly found in South America and 
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