No. 747. 
SAXIFRAGA LIGULATA. 
Class. Order, 
DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
A native of mountains in Napal and the 
East of Bengal, where it was discovered by 
Dr. Hamilton, from whom we are informed 
by Mr. D. Don, in his able treatise on this 
genus in the Transactions of the Linnean 
Society, there are specimens of it in the 
Lambertian Herbarium. 
This plant, as Mr. D. well observes, is one 
of many instances which manifest the strik- 
ing similarity which exists between the vege- 
tation of Napal and that of the northern re- 
gions of Tartary. 
We have hitherto kept the plant in the 
greenhouse, but have scarcely a doubt of its - 
becoming soon naturalized to our climate 
without such protection. It flowered with 
us in February: we have not yet increased 
it, but the root will probably soon admit of 
separation for that purpose. The soil should 
be light loam. 
