394 LIT. SAXIFEAGACE2E. (C. B. Clarke.) \_Scwifraga. 



1-2 in., sessile, oblong-lanceolate, with one or two acute teeth. Petals small, exceed- 

 ing the sepals. Styles short. Capsule less than | in. long. Seeds minute, smooth, 

 elliptic, angular. 



16. S. pallid a, Wall in Sterrib. Saxifrag. Supjil. t. 23 ; scape 2-6 in. 

 leafless with narrow bracts at the divisions of the corymb or simple, calyx in 

 fruit adnate to base of ovary for one-third its length, lobes finally recurved, 

 petals twice sepals, capsule -f in. long. Wall. Cat. 450 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 38 ; 

 H. f. 8f T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. ii. 65 ; Engler Monog. Saxifrag. 140. 



Alpine Himalaya; SIKKIM, alt. 13,000-17,000 ft. ; Lachen, Kankala, &c., J.D. H. 

 NIPAL ; Gossain Than, Wdlich. KUMAON, alt. 14,500ft. ; Barji Kang Pass, Strackey 

 $ Winter bottom. 



Slightly pubescent, sometimes glabrous. Radical leaves long-petioled, ovate, den- 

 tate-crenate. Flowers and fruit very variable in size, sometimes not larger than in 

 the next species. Style hardly any. Seeds ellipsoid, longitudinally striated by 10-12 

 rows of tubercles. 



17. S. micrantha, Edgw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 50 ; scape 4-8 in. 

 high leafless (rarely 1-leaved) with leaflike bracts at the lower divisions of 

 the corymb, calyx in fruit shortly adnate to base of ovary, lobes finally recurved, 

 petals hardly exceeding sepals, capsule seldom more than in. long. H.f. Sf T. 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 64 ; Engler Monog. Saxifrag. 141. 



Alpine Eastern and Western HIMALAYA, alt. 9000-11,000 ft. ; Edgeworth; Dhurm- 

 sala, C. B. Clarke; Gurwhal, Falconer. SIKKIM, alt. 10,000-14,000 ft.; Lachen, 

 Tungu, J. D. H. 



Pubescent. Radical leaves long-petioled, ovate, dentate-erenate. Style exceedingly 

 short. Seeds ellipsoid, longitudinally striated by 10-12 rows of tubercles. This spe- 

 cies will perhaps be merged in the preceding when more material accumulates. 



SECT. IV. Microphylla. Flowers solitary, yellow or white, on leafless 

 peduncles, -2 in. high. Tufts dense formed by the stems 1-3 in. long, branch- 

 ing and crowded, covered upwards with densely whorled undivided small obtuse 

 leaves about in. long. 



18. S. imbricata, Royle III. 226, t. 49; uppermost leaves with a per- 

 forated whitened pit at their apex, flowers sessile, sepals ovate obtuse glabrous or 

 slightly ciliate pubescent. H. f. fy T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 62 ; Engler 

 Monogr. Saxifrag. 264. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA, from SIKKIM to KASHMIR, alt 12,000-17,000 ft., Boyle, Jacgue- 

 mont, J. D. H., &c. 



Leaves - in., obovate-elliptic, glabrous or a little ciliate, hardly glandular. Pe- 

 tals narrow, twice the sepals, deciduous ; white (C. B. Clarke noted in the field, also 

 Jacquemont and Jaeschke) ; yellow in the figure of Royle. Fruit less than in. long. 

 All the examples now referred surely to S. imbricata at Kew exhibit some perforated 

 leaves ; var. 7. and 8. of H. f. & T. (in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 62) must be referred 

 elsewhere. 



19. S. hemisphaerica, H.f.fy T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 62; upper- 

 most leaves with a broad scariose laciniated margin, flowers subsessile, sepals 

 ovate obtuse erect in fruit slightly pubescent. Engl&r Monog. Saxifrag. 212. 



SIKKIM, alt. 17,000-18,000 ft., Mt. Donkiah, J. D. H. 



Lower leaves \ in., oblong, entire, glabrescent, upper shorter, ciliate. Petals in 

 the fruiting specimens alone collected by Sir J. D. Hooker, probably deciduous as in 

 S. imbricata. Fruit less than in. long. 



