392 LIT. SAXIFRAGACE^!. (C. B. Clarke.) [Saxifraga. 



8. S. aristulata, H.f. # T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 68 ; tufts mosslike, 

 stems l-3in. glandular but not woolly-pubescent upwards, leaves with recurved 

 margins and terminated by a deciduous linear awn, petals broadly obovate. 

 Engler Monog. Saxifrag. 121. 



SIKKIM, alt. 13,000-18,000 ft. ; Yeumtong and Lachen, J. D. H. 



Stem-leaves \ in., shining, glabrous. Sepals glabrous, slightly adnate to the ripe 

 carpels. Petals %~ in. long. 



VAR. 2 ; stem-leaves much larger lanceolate-linear somewhat overlapping each 

 other. Sikkim, Samdong, J. D. H. This variety approaches 8. brachypoda, Don. 



9. S. sagfinoides, H. /. # T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 68 ; tufts mosslike, 

 stems 1 in. woolly-pubescent upwards, leaves striate but hardly with recurved 

 margins rarely terminated by a deciduous awn, petals oblong. Engler Monog. 

 Saxifrag. 121. 



SIKKIM, alt. 10,000-18,000 ft.; Lachen, &c., J. D. H. KUMAON, alt. 13,000 ft. : 

 Ealum, Strachey $ Winter bottom. 



Stem-leaves hardly 5 in. long, glabrous. Sepals glabrous, slightly adnate to fruit- 

 ing carpels. Petals scarcely \ in. long. Fruit small. Seed trigonous, subglobose, 

 smooth. Hardly to be distinguished from S. aristulata. Moreover Sir J. D. Hooker 

 collected in Sikkim intermediate* forms having the woolly pubescent peduncle of S. 

 xaginoides, with the leaves and stature of S. aristulata. 



*** Upper stem-leaves not overlapping each other ; Jloivers corymbose, rarely 

 reduced to one in starved examples. 



10. S. latiflora, H.f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 71; .flowers 3-1 

 large, sepals ovate herbaceous large, radical leaves smaller than the stem-leaves. 

 Engler Monog. Saxifrag. 122. 



SIKKIM, alt. 13,000 ft. ; Kankala, J. D. H. 



Stems 4-8 in. high, glabrous below, glandular- pubescent above. Leaves oblong- 

 elliptic ; radical petiolate, glandulose-ciliate ; cauline 1 by -1 in. Petals ovate- 

 oblong, naked at the base, a little exceeding the sepals. Styles very short. Capsule 

 ovate-oblong. Resembles S. diversifolia but has finer flowers. 



11. S. Hirculus, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iv.44; surculi decumbent, leaves sub- 

 glabrous radical petioled narrow-spathulate cauline oblong narrowed at both 

 ends, flowers 3-1, petals narrow obovate. Xing. Sot. t. 1009 ; Don in Trans. 

 Linn, tfoe.xiii. 372 ; H.f. fy T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 69 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 

 808 ; Engler Monog. Saxifrag. 122. 



VAR. 1. typica; stems 6-12 in. 1-3-flowered, cauline leaves -1 in., sepals 

 strongly deflexed, base often brown -villous externally, petals 2-3 times the sepals 

 golden with red dots and 2 pits at the base, styles very short. Not yet collected in 

 India. DISTRIB. Arctic regions ; Alps of Europe to the Caucasus. 



VAR. 2. indica ; peduncles very brown villous, capsule much shorter oval-oblong, 

 sepals hardly deflexed even on the ripe fruit, petals shorter 1-2 times the calyx, 

 styles often wanting, with no obvious stigmas, but the capsules produce good seed. 

 North Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 11,000-17,000 ft., Falconer, T. Thomson, J. D. H., 

 &c. 



VAR. 3. hirculoides (sp.) Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Sot. t. 78 ; stems 2-3 in. often very 

 villous Upwards ; like var. 2 but the petals have no pits or glands at the base and are 

 shorter than sepals, or scarcely exceed them. 



Kashmir, Jacquemont. "Western Tibet, alt. 17,000 ft. ; Balch Pass, Strach. & 

 Winterb. 



VAR. 4. subdioica; like var. 3, but the stems are 3-6 in. high, and carry 4-10 

 shortly corymbose or altogether congested flowers ; the stigmas are obscure and some 



