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XXXII. SAXIFRAGACEH3 
rarely crowded, sessile, rigid, linear, £-£ in., glandular-fringed, 
acute, the upper ones often bearing bulbils in the axils. Runners 
none. Flowers yellow, solitary, terminal, in. diam. Sepals 
glandular, erect in fruit. 
Matiana, Huttoo, on rocks ; September, October. — W. Himalaya, 9000- 
12,000 ft. y 
3. Saxifraga Brunoniana, Wall. ; FI. Br. Ind. ii. 397. Stems 
very slender, wiry, tufted, 3-8 in., erect, usually forking, glabrous 
or slightly glandular. Lower leaves crowded, densely imbricate, 
sessile, narrowly lanceolate, in., glabrous, margins bristly, 
acute, having numerous, long, leafless, thread-like runners with 
terminal buds issuing from between them ; upper leaves few, 
distant, smaller. Flowers yellow, terminal, 2-4 on a stem, \ in. 
diam. Sepals glabrous, erect in fruit. 
Huttoo, on rocks, not common ; September, October. — Abundant on the 
Chor. — Temperate Himalaya, 10,000-16,000 ft. 
4. Saxifraga ciliata, Boyle , ; FI. Br. Ind. ii. 398, under S. 
ligulata, Wall. Rootstock very thick ; stems short, thick, fleshy, 
procumbent. Leaves ovate or orbicular, 2-6 in. long at the time 
of flowering, in the autumn attaining a foot or more across and 
turning bright red, cordate, margins entire, fringed with short, 
close, stiff hairs, both surfaces hairy, becoming nearly glabrous in 
age ; stalk stem-sheathing at the base. Flowers white, pink or 
