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subacuta mucronulata, margine minute ciliato-spinulosa, cetera 
glabra; superiora laxius imbricata, 5-10 mm. longa, I-1.5 mm. 
lata, linearia, acuta vel subacuta, margine minute ciliata, 
rugosula, in bracteas simillimas sed minores abeuntia. Pedicelli 
circ. 5 mm. longi, sparse fusco-villosi. Flores eis S. piliferae 
similes, paulo majores. Sepala circ. 3 mm. longa, oblongo- 
ovata, obtusissima, carnosula, extus sparse pilosula, intus 
glabra. Petala in sicco rubro-purpurascentia, circ. 3 mm. longa, 
obovata, trinervia. Ovarium (immaturum) disciforme stylis 
brevissimis erectis coronatum. 
“China :—At Atuntsi, N.W. Yunnan, near the Tibetan | 
frontier, at an elevation of 16,000 ft. July r91r.”’ F. Kingdon 
Ward. No. 44 
This species of the Chinese Western Ranges corresponds 
to the Himalayan S. filifera, from which it differs in minor 
points. It is more compact with more imbricate leaves which 
are much less puberulous, the inflorescence is many flowered, 
the sepals fleshy and more obtuse, the petals more rounded at 
the apex. It is very closely allied, however, and in structure 
of leaf, sepal, petal, and especially ovary, it is scarcely different 
from its Himalayan congener. 
Saxifraga finitima, W. W.Sm. Sp. nov. 
Species affinis Saxifragae Stella-aureae, Hook. f. et Thoms. 
sed pedicellis saepius unifoliatis, et floribus majoribus inter alia 
distincta. 
Planta dense caespitosa caudiculis lignosis, dense foliosis, 
caulibus floriferis undique glanduloso-puberulis unifloris. Folia 
densissime rosulatim conferta, sessilia, circ. 3 mm. longa, circ. 
I mm. lata, oblonga, obtusa, carnosula, nitentia, margine 
glanduloso-ciliata, nervis obscuris. Pedicelli circ. 3 cm. longi, 
glanduloso-puberuli, folio mediano circ. 3 mm. longo lineari 
glanduloso-ciliato praediti. Sepala 3-4 mm. longa, circ. 1.5 
mm. lata, reflexa, oblonga, obtusa, parce margine glanduloso- 
ciliata, cetera glabra, viridia. Petala erecto-patentia, 5-6 mm. 
longa, circ. 3 mm. lata, late elliptica, brevissime unguiculata, 
obtusa, 5-nervia, flava. Stamina filiformia sepalis paulo 
longiora. Capsula immatura, circ. 3 mm. longa, ovato-globosa, 
stylis brevissimis erectis coronata. 
“China :—N.W. Yunnan, at Atuntsi, at an _ elevation 
of 16,000 ft. on boulders and screes. July 1911.” F. Kingdon 
Ward. No. 47. 
A near relative of the Himalayan S. Stella-aurea, Hook. f. et 
Thoms., but easily distinguished by the larger flowers and the 
linear bracts (sometimes absent) placed at, or a little below, the 
middle of the pedicel. 
