Qh-ysospleniwrn.] lii. SAXiFEAGACBie. (C. B. Clarke.) 401 



scales, flowers sessile. 0. carnosulum, Maxim, in Bull. Acad. Peters., Mel. Biol. 

 ix. 767. 



SiKKiM HiMAiAYA, alt. 14-16,000 ft., Yeumtong and Kankola ' near the per- 

 petual snow,' i7. 2). H. 



Leaves about \ in. diam., glossy, very deep green, elliptic, ottuse, orenate-dentate. 

 Flowers lurid. Calt/x segments purple. — This may prove only an extreme form of 

 C. aUemifolmm. 



6. C> Grlffitbil, H.f. ^ T.inJowm. Linn. Soc. ii. 74; stems 4-6 in. 

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

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

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



Bhotast; Griffith. 



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

 dicaule, Bunge. 



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

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

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

 Biol. ix. 762. 



Temperate Western Himalaya ; Kedarkanta in Qitbwhal, Botfle ; Madhari Fass, 

 in KuMAON, alt. 10,000 ft., Strachey ^ Winterhottom. 



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

 petioled. 



*** Leaves alternate; plant puiescent. 



7. C. lanug^lnosum, H. f. 8; T. in Journ. Lmn. Soa. ii. 74 ; stem 

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

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

 Biol. ix. 760. Saxifraga adoxioides. Griff. le. PI. 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. PAXtNASSXA, lAmn. 



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. C<rfyi'-tube 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-oelled ; style short 

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

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

 dally 3-4r-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). — 

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

 the Indian Peninsula. Species 12. 



Sdci. 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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