Saxifraya.] LIT. SAXIFRAGACE.S. (C. B. Clarke.) 395 



20. S. perpusilla, H.f. fy T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 72 ; flowers yellow 

 on glandular peduncles 33 in. high, uppermost leaves about ^ in. obovate-oblong 

 concave white ciliate on edges otherwise glabrous, sepals ciliolate erect in fruit. 

 Engler Monog. Saxifrag. 210. 



SUUQM, alt. 16,000-1 7.000 ft. ; Mt. Donkiah, J. D. H. 



Stems scarcely an inch long. Petals golden, twice the sepals, oblong, persistent. 

 Styles very short. Fruit ovate, subquadrate, shorter than the petals. The tufts are 

 small, the leaves and sepals very small. 



21. S. microphylla, Roijle in Herb. Bth. ex H.f. $ T. inJoum. Linn. 

 Soc. ii. 72 ; peduncles puberulous about in., leaves oblong glabrous, sepals 

 much adnate below erect in fruit, petals or oblong coriaceous equal to the 

 sepals (green-white ?). Engler Monog. Saxifrag. 210. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, Boyle. KUMAON, alt. 14,700 ft.; Barji Kang Pass, Strachcy 

 and Winterbottom. 



Still smaller than S. perpusilla, with inconspicuous flowers. Ripe carpels acumi- 

 nated upwards, sometimes united conically to the top. 



22. S. Jacquemontiana, Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Sot. t. 78 ; flowers 

 golden subsessile or on a glandular peduncle |- in. long, uppermost leaves ob- 

 ovate-oblong, sepals broad-elliptic glandular-pubescent patent or finally deflexed. 

 H.f. Sf T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 71 ; Engler Monog. Saxifrag. 211. 



Alpine Himalaya, from SIKKIM to KASHMIR, alt. 13,000-18,000 ft.; Jacquc- 

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



Lower leaves ^- in., orbicular or elliptic, glabrescent ; upper glandular-pubescent 

 or nearly glabrous. Petals % in. long, nearly twice the sepals, elliptic, persistent. 

 Fruit ovate, shorter than the petals. Seeds minute, ellipsoidal, smooth, testa reticu- 

 lated not tuberculate. 



VAR. 2. )8. Stella-aurea; (sp.) H. f. Sf. T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 72; peduncles 

 -2 in. from Sikkim to Kashmir, alt. 13,500-17,000 ft. ; J. D. H. 



SECT. V. Flowers yellow, on sparsely leafy peduncles 1-3 in. from tufts formed 

 by weak stems clothed upwards with subrosulate undivided spathulate-oblong 

 small leaves ^ in. long. 



23. S. ramulosa, Wall, in Sternb. Saxifrag. Suppl. t. 26; peduncles 

 glandular-pubescent 1-2-flowered, upper rosulate leaves glabrous rigid oblong- 

 often with 1-5 pits on their front margin, sepals glandular-pubescent in fruit 

 much adnate, lobes triangular suberect. Wall. Cat. 446 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 

 21 ; Roijle III. t. 49 (bad) ; H.f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 62 ; Engler Mo- 

 nog. Saxifrag. 268. S. glandulifera, Jacquem. Journ. 



Central and Western HIMALAYA, from NIPAL to KASHMIR, alt. 8500-12,000 ft. ; 

 Wallich, Jacquemont, Strachey $ Winterbottom, &c. 



Steins 2-6 in. long, branches crowded into tufts ; branches barren or producing a 

 flower-stem, terminated by rosulate crowded leaves. Eosulate leaves spathulate : ob- 

 long, sometimes very small, sometimes |- in., margins cartilaginous ; leaves on the 

 peduncle linear-spathulate or narrow- oblong. Petals obovate, clawed, much exceed- 

 ing the sepals. Carpels in fruit narrowed upwards. A species by the texture and 

 perforations of its leaves allied to S. imbricata ; which differs Ly its sessile flowers 

 and its less glandular-pubescent sepals. 



24. S. umbellulata, H.f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 71 ; flower-stems 

 2-3 in., peduncles 1-5 umbelled very glandular, rosulate leaves narrowly spa- 

 thulate glabrous or slightly ciliate-pubescent. Engler Monog. Saxifrag. 222. 



