LIT. SAXIFRAGACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 411 



SUOLIM HIMALAYA, alt. 10,000-12,000 ft. ; Lachen, J. D. H. 



A shrub, 4 ft. high, with erect twigs, polygamo-dicecious. Leaves 3-5-lobed, 1 by 

 1|- in., lobes crenate-serrate. Racemes pubescent, erect in fruit, short. Flowers sub- 

 sessile, chestnut. Calyx-tube of the flower subcampanulate. Very near E. glacialc ; 

 the leaves are in general outline subreniform while those of E. glaciale usually have 

 .the middle lobe elongate and acuminate. 



** Calyx-tube produced above the fruit. 



6. R. nig- ruin, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 481 ; branches and leaves nearly 

 glabrous, racemes pubescent long pendulous, bracts -^-^ in. long narrow, berry 

 black. Eng. Sot. t. 1291 ; H. f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 88 ; Boiss. if I. 

 Orient, ii. 815 ; Maxim, in Bull Acad. Petersb., Mel. Biol. ix. 222 ; Brand-. 

 For. Fl 215. 



Temperate Western Himalaya from KTWAWAR to KASHMIR, alt. 7000-12,000 ft., 

 T. Thomson. DISTBIB. North Europe and North Asia. 



Leaves in the Kashmir examples not always punctate beneath. Racemes long, 

 pendulous ; no solitary peduncle at their base. Pedicelslong. Flowers green. 



7. R. G-riffithii, H.f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 88 ; leaves pubescent 

 on the nerves beneath, racemes 3-6 in. long flexuose pendent very lax, bracts 



in. long linear-lanceolate exceeding the pedicels, berry \ in. long glabrous 



Eastern Himalaya; BIIOTAN, alt. 7500 ft, Griffith. SIKKIM, alt. 10,000-13,000 ft., 

 J. D. H. 



An erect shrub 8 ft. high. Leaves 2-3 in., 5-lobed ; lobes acuminate or caudate, 

 sharply serrate. Calyx-tube in flower and in young fruit broadly campanulate. 



8. R. rubruxn, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iii. 481 ; branchlets glabrous, racemes 

 pubescent elongate pendulous, bracts iV~8 ^ n< l n g l wer often broad or obovate, 

 berry red smooth. Eng. Sot. t. 1289 ;' H. f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 89 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 816 ; Maxim, in Bull. Acad. Petersb., Mel. Biol. ix. 233 ; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 215. R. Hinialayense, Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Bot. t. 77 (not of 

 Royle). 



Western Himalaya, from KUMAON to KASHMIR, alt. 8000-12,000 ft., frequent; 

 Eoyle, T. Thomson, &c. DISTRIB. Alpine Europe, Caucasus, Altai. 



Leaves long-petioled, petioles often ciliate at the base, ovate-cordate, 3-5-lobcd ; 

 lobes acute, crenate-serrate ; upper surface glabrous or with scattered hairs, lower 

 glabrous or pubescent. Pedicels short. Calyx-lobes short, obtuse. Flowers largo, 

 greenish-yellow. 



? VAR. ; berries black, leaves glabrous or pubescent beneath, pedicels very 

 short. Kashmir, alt. 9500 ft. ; Levinge. Karakorum, alt. 11,500 ft., C. B. Clarke. 

 Lahul; Jaeschke in Brand. For. Fl. 215. 



ORDER LIU. CRASSULACEJE. 



Herbs, often with a woody perennial rootstock, or under-shrubs, usually suc- 

 culent. Leaves alternate or opposite, usually simple but divided in Bryophylhun 

 and Kalanchoe ; stipules 0. Floioers often cymose, sometimes spicate-race- 

 mose in Cotyledon,, or paniculate in Bryophyllum, regular, hermaphrodite or 

 unisexual. Calyx 4-5-h'd more rarely 6-8-fid, free. Petals as many as the 

 sepals, free or connate. Stamens hypogynous or upon the petals, as many or 

 twice as many as the petals. Carpels usually as many as the petals (fewer in 

 Triactina and in a few Sedums) with a hypogynous g]and or scale at the base of 



