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PRIMULA prsenilens. 



Chinese Primrose, 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Lysimachi^. Jusgieu gen. 96. Div. II. 



Primulace^. Brown prod. 1. 427. " ^\^ 



PRIMULA. Umbella involucrata. Car. hypocrateriformis ; tubo e^ 

 lindrico calyce longiore: fauce egIanduIos4: limbo 6-fido: laciniis emar- 

 ginatis. (Stam. limbi laciniis opposita. Brown). Stigma globosum. Caps. 

 l-Iocularis, dentibus lO-dehiscens. Lekmann prim, monogr. 16. 



P. proKitens, (pubescens, umbelld nunc Ws pr(difer& :) calyce membranaceo, 

 oTato, rentricoso, indefinite multifido; fceto capsule, inflato-diatento : 

 corol^ laciniis supern^ inciso-dentatis. 



Tola prcEter corallam plus minils pvbescens. Folia petiolata, radiealta, 

 atnlnentia, sparsa, lato-cordatay lobata hbis plurilms (9?) rotuitdatis in- 

 aqualith dentato-incisis, suprd nuditucula: petioli longiores lamind, pilosi. 

 Scapus (nuTic pluresj folia exsuperana, erectus, simplex v. proUferm, pilo- 

 sus, rotundati anguhms, Umbella multiflora, hxa, peduncvlis Jiliformibtu 

 pilosis, flore longi&ribus: involuc, duplo umbeUd brevius, foliolis oblongis 

 ineBquaUtnts supemi dentato-incisis, interioribm tot guot pedunmlis. Flores 

 lilactM-rubenteSy diametrum sesquivnciak nunc excedenteSy subtHs cameo- 

 pallentes. Cal. suMrescens, pilosiusculaSf items parallelis indefinite pluri- 

 mis altemi tenuioribus striatus, coroUa tvbum aguans, primUm ovato-ven- 

 tricosus svhangidoso-plicatus (plicis tot guot dentUnts), deindi cum incres- 

 centejructu extumescens, multifidxts Mmlis indefinitis acutis tot guot nerms 

 altemis crassioribus, fundo lata pfantuscuto intruso. Cor«. Hmbus explanatus 

 maculA fulvd in disco, Iddniis lato-cordatis, margine supertore dentatu. 

 Stam. et pist. non licuit inspicere. Caps, (mmdum beni maturatam mdtmusj 

 Crustacea, glabra, calyce vestita, oblato-ovata, vahmlis 10 dentiformibus par- 

 vulis apice dehiscens, pallido-fusca. 



Drawn from a plant (we believe the only one in the 

 country) which flowered last March in the collection of 

 Mrs. Palmer, at Bromley in Kent. It had been brought by 

 Captain Rawes from the gardens at Canton, where it pro- 

 bably found its way from some far more northern quarter 

 of the Chinese empire ; none of this generic type having, 

 we believe, been observed as native of the levels of so low 

 a latitude. Samples in a dried state had been previously 

 ■ transmitted by Mr. Reeves, a gentleman in the employment 

 of the East India Company at Canton. 



This very elegant species differs considerably in cha- 

 racter from all which are known, but comes the nearest to 



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