INDIAN SPECIES OF PRIMULA AND ANDROSACE. 11 
Srxkxrw Himatayra: Chola Natong (King). 
Rootstock small. Leaves few, 2-4 inches, membranous, 4—2 inch 
diam., hairs flexuous; petiole rather slender, sometimes equalling 
the blade. Scape 5-6 inches; head of flower 13-2 inches diam. ; 
bracts from narrow-lanceolate to almost rounded. Oalya 4 inch 
diam., very loose, open, and thin, veined. Corolla glabrous within 
and without; tube 1 inch; limb twice as long, and broad at the 
mouth. Stamens at the mouth of the tube; anthers oblong ; fila- 
ments very short. Ovary globose, top rounded; style very short ; 
stigma broadly capitate, truncate.—A very beautiful plant, closely 
allied to P. uniflora and P. soldanelloides, having the large mem- 
branous calyx of the former, which distinguishes these from all 
other species. 
Prats XIV. A. fig. 1, plant, nat. size. 2, bracts; 3, calyx; 4, 
portion of corolla laid open ; 5, ovary : all enlarged. 
17. P. SrvanTIT, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall. 
ii. p. 20. 
Throughout the subalpine and alpine regions of the Hrwa- 
LAYA and in TrsET bordering it, alt. 12,000—16,000 ft. ; Afghan- 
istan. 
The following remarks upon this species are supplied by Sir 
J. D. Hooker :— 
“This is one of the most common and puzzling of the Himalayan 
Primula, if, indeed, there be not two or more species included 
under it, with possibly hybrid intermediates. P. denticulata, 
which inhabits lower levels, and P. petiolaris, from still lower, 
are the only equally wide-spread common and protean Himalayan 
congeners. The original P. Stwartii was founded by Wallich on 
a yellow-flowered plant well figured in the ‘ Botanical Magazine’ 
(tab. 4356) ; P. purpurea, published later by Royle (Ill. Pl. Himal. 
t. 77. f. 2), was founded on a purple-flowered one, which I find 
it impossible to distinguish by any other character from P. 
Stuartii, the two presenting a parallel geries of varieties in the 
size, shape, mealiness, and crenature of the leaves, number of 
flowers and bracts, and the shape and comparative lengths of the 
calyx-lobes, and capsule. P. Moorcroftiana, of Wallich, founded 
on miserable fragments collected in Western Tibet by Mooreroft, 
is a third supposed species, which is obviously a small state of 
purpurea. "The following is the best disposition of the series of 
