368 F. Fedde. 
2—3 inches long, 6 —10 lines broad. Racemes on the old leafless stems, 
axillary, !/; inch long, 2—3 flowered. Bracts ovate, apiculate or the 
lower obtuse, imbricate, 3—5 nerved, 3—4 inches long. Pedicels slender, 
1—1!/; inches long. Sepals lanceolate-oblong. obtuse, 1—1!/ inches long. 
Petals elliptical-oblong, obtuse, rather broader than the sepals and about 
as long, Lip elliptical, obtuse, somewhat narrowed near the base, rather 
shorter than the sepals, 7—8 lines broad, disc tuberculate at the base. 
Column very short and stout. Mentum curved, obtuse, 4—5 lines long. 
Colour of flower blush pink, with a buff yellow blotch on the disc, minutely 
dotted with purple, the dots extending in a broad Jine to the tuberculate 
base. Foot of column yellow, with some purple dots and steaks. 
West Szechuan: Near Ya-chow, growing chiefly on Oak trees, but 
oceasionally on rocks, 3800 feet altitude (E. H. Wilson). 
It belongs to the section Eudendrobium, and is allied to the Indian 
D. transparens Wall, but has considerably larger flowers of a very 
delicate shade of pink, with a small yellow blotch on the disc of the 
lip, on which occur a number of minute dark purple dots, and these 
extend in a broad line to the base. 
42. Primula deflexa J. F. Duthie, l. c., p. 229. 
Rootstock short, rather stout. Leaves thin, in basal rosettes, 5 to 
11 inches long (at flowering time), and about 1 inch in width, narrowly 
oblanceolate, obtuse or subacute at the apex, tapering gradually into the 
long winged petiole, more or less clothed on both surfaces with minute 
white multicellular hairs, especially on the midrib and veins; margins 
irregularly crenate-dentate, ciliate, teeth with reddish glandlike tips: 
midrib stout, primary veins conspicuous. Scape much exceeding the 
leaves, often attaining nearly 2 feet in height. Heads subglobose, about 
1 inch in diameter. Bracts 4 to 5 lines long, falcately linear-lanceolate. 
Flowers crowded, sessile, deflexed, dark blue or rose-purple, with a 
delicate blue centre, often turning whitish after expansion. Calyx about 
1/, inch long, divided about halfway down, coated inside and towards 
the base outside with pale yellow powder; lobes unequal, the three 
posterior ones broader than the others, and tinged with a very dark 
purple colour towards the rounded and emarginate gland-ciliate apex. 
the narrow anterior lobes acute at the apex. Corolla about '/ inch long, 
funnel-shaped, glabrous; segments cuneate-oblong, with a broadly emarg- 
inate apex. Capsule depressed-globose, marked outside with a curious 
sigmoid pattern. 
Western China: In mountain woods, at elev. betw. 10000 and 
13000 feet (E. H. Wilson no. 4085). 
It evidently belongs to the Capitata group, approaching most nearly 
P. cernua of Franchet and P. bellidifolia of King (a Sikkim species), both 
of which have sessile deflexed corollas. It may, however, at once be 
distinguished from P. cernua by the longer and very differently shaped 
and distinctly toothed leaves, longer petioles, and smaller flowers. From 
P. bellidifolia it differs by being a much taller plant, with larger and less 
