Clmjsosplenium.~\ LII. SAXIFRAGACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) 401 



scales, flowers sessile. C. carnosuluin, Maxim, in Bull. Acad. Peters., Mel. Biol. 

 ix. 757. 



SIKXIM HIMALAYA, alt. 14-15,000 ft., Yeumtong and Kankola 'near the per- 

 petual snow,' J. D. H. 



Leaves about \ in. diam., glossy, very deep green, elliptic, obtuse, crenate-dentate. 

 Flowers lurid. Calyx segments purple. This may prove only an extreme form of 

 C. alternifolium. 



5. C. G-riffithii, H.f. $ T.inJoum. Linn. Soc. ii. 74; stems 4-6 iu. 

 high suberect, leafy at the summit, radical leaves represented by short sheathing 

 scales, leaves reniforni-cordate deeply crenate-lobate, flowers pedicelled. Maxim, 

 in Bull. Acad. Petersb., Mel. Biol. ix. 759. 



BHOTAN; Griffith. 



Leaves -1 in. broad ; lobes 6-16, very obtuse, often \ in. deep. Very near C. nu- 

 dicaule, Bunge. 



6. C. tenellum, H.f. fy T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 73; stems filiform 

 procumbent interlacing leafy, leaves reniforrn cordate crenate-lobate, flowers 

 scattered pedicelled, seeds smooth shining. Maxim, in Bull. Acad. Petersb., Mel. 

 Biol. ix. 762. 



Temperate Western HIMALAYA ; Kedarkanta in G-UUWHAL, Royle ; Madhari Pass, 

 in KUMAON, alt. 10,000 ft., Strachey $ Winterbottom. 



Stems 1-3 in. long. Leaves f in. broad, with 4-8 shallow lobes ; radical long- 

 petioled. 



*** Leaves alternate^ plant pubescent. 



7. C- lanugfinosum, H. f. 8? T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 74 ; stem 

 3-8 in. high erect leafy, corymb loose terminal sparingly leafy, leaves 1-2 in. 

 long elliptic slightly crenate. 0. adoxoides, Maxim, in Bull. Acad. Petersb., Mel. 

 Biol. ix. 760. Saxifraga adoxioides, Griff. Ic. PL Asiat. t. 570. 



Eastern Himalaya; BHOTAN, alt. 7500-8000 ft., Griffith. SIKKIM, alt. 

 7-9000 ft., T. Anderson, C. B. Clarke. 



Whole plant pubescent and with brown-red wool. Corymb, when well developed, 

 2-3 in. across, with leaf-like bracts at a few of the divisions. Sometimes stunted and 

 more compact. 



6. FARNA3SXA, Linn. 



Glabrous perennial scapigerous herbs. Scape angular, 1-flowered, often 

 bearing one leaf in the middle, more rarely naked or with several leaves. Leaves 

 entire, radical long-petioled. Calyx-tuhe free or adnate to the ovary, the lobes 

 5, imbricate. Petals 5, white or pale yellow. Stamens 5, perigynous or nearly 

 hypogynous, alternate with 5 large staminodes. Ovary 1-celted ; style short 

 with 3-4 (or 5) nearly simple stigmas ; ovules numerous attached to the parie- 

 tal placentae opposite the stigmas. Capsule superior or half-inferior, loculici- 

 dally 3-4-valved. Seeds many, obovoid or subcylindric, smooth, testa sometimes 

 lax; albumen hardly any ; (in which point Parnassia differs from the character 

 of the order Saxifrayacece and is therefore placed by some authors elsewhere). 

 DISTEIB. Northern temperate hemisphere, extending south to the mountains of 

 the Indian Peninsula. Species 12. 



SECT. I. Nectarodroson. Staminodes ending in numerous long gland- 

 bearing processes. Petals entire. 



1. P. palustris, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 320 ; leaves cordate at the base, 

 cauline usually solitary, processes of the staminodes 7-21. Eng. Bot. t. 82 ; 

 Bois. Fl. Orient, ii. 814 ; Drude. in Linncea, xxxix. 307. 



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