It was raised in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, 
from seeds from the North of India, presented by Captain Wm. 
Munro, in April, 1845. It was said to have been found in 
company with Cyananthus lobatus, in the neighbourhood of 
water, at an elevation of 11,500 feet above the sea. 
Captain Munro called it P. spathulata, but it is exactly 
the P. involucrata of Dr. Wallich's dried plants. The 
former name is one of Dr. Royle's, and being used by that 
botanist along with P. involucrata, no doubt indicates some 
other species, which, however, is not yet published. It is 
nearly allied to the purple-flowered P. sibirica, and with it 
forms a well-marked and important section of the Primroses, 
to which we would apply the name of ARMERINA. 
The distinguishing features of the Armerine Primroses is 
to have the involucral leaves extended downwards into a 
sheath, as in the genus of Leadworts, called Armeria. This 
circumstance greatly confirms the affinity of Primworts and 
Leadworts, and seems to leave no doubt of those two orders 
both belonging to the same natural alliance. (See Vegetable 
Kingdom, p. 640, &c.) 
We gladly avail ourselves of a little space, to bring under 
the notice of our readers the very interesting account given 
by Dr. Royle, in his Illustrations of the Botany, &c. of the 
Himalayas, of the Indian distribution of Primroses, and the 
associated genera. 
“ Ornamental as are all the known Primulacez, they are 
no where more so than on the coldest and most exposed of the 
Himalayan peaks, and at a season when returning warmth 
has but just begun to displace the scene of wintery desolation. 
The plants of this family are chiefly diffused through the 
temperate and cold parts of the northern hemisphere, both in 
the Old and New World, where they are found in moist, 
shady, and frequently mountainous situations. But they 
exist also in the southern hemisphere, as Primula in the 
Straits of Magalhaens, and I believe also on the mountains 
of Van Diemen's Land; Lysimachia and Centunculus in 
New Holland, and Anagallis in Chili and Peru. 
** In. India, the only plant of this family which is gene- 
rally diffused through the plains, but this only during the 
