488 LXXVIII, PRIMULACER (OLIVER). { Primula. 
Capsule cireumsciss. 
Flowers 5-merous . 
Flowers 4-merous . cee 
Corolla imbrieate. Ovary adherent . 
4, ANAGALLIS. ’ 
5, CENTUNCULUS. 
6. SAMOLUS. 
1. PRIMULA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. p. 681. 
Calyx campanulate or tubular, 5-lobed, persistent. Corolla hypo- 
gynous, hypocrateriform. Stamens included. Ovary multiovulate; 
style slender; stigma capitate. Capsule globose, 5-valved, with en- 
tire or bifid valves.—Perennial herbs, with radical rosulate leaves and 
whorled (or umbellate, rarely solitary), white rose purple or yellow 
flowers. 
A considerable genus, especially of Alpine and sub-Alpine regions of the Northern 
Hemisphere in the Old World. 
1. P. verticillata, Forsk. Fl. Agypt.-Arab. p. 42. Leaves obo- 
vate-spathulate or oblanceolate, usually acute or broadly pointed, 
narrowed into a rather long more or less alate petiole, unequally 
dentate-serrate, glabrous above, more or less farinose at least at first 
beneath, with the petiole from 2 to 8 in. long. Scape erect, q-1 ft. or 
taller, usually with 2-3 involucrate whorls of pedicellate pale yellow 
flowers ; bracts of involucre sessile, lanceolate, elliptical or obovate, 
acute, unequally serrate or dentate, usually equalling or exceeding the 
pedicels. Calyx campanulate, 5-fid, mealy or glabrous ; segments 
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, entire or toothed, 2-5 times shorter than 
the slender tube of the hypocrateriform corolla.—P. Boveana, Decaisne ; 
DC. Prodr. viii. p. 35; P. simensis, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss-; 
Jaub. et Spach. Ill. Pl. Or. v. t. 440; Bot. Mag. t. 6042. Dr. Schwem- 
furth distinguishes two varieties (Beitr. Fl. Aithiop. 86) a. farmost, 
farinose, with smaller leaves, and 3. simensis, nearly or quite destitute 
of meal and with the leaves equalling the scape. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Schi , n- Di nd Petit! 
Aled in’ Avahia: yssinia, Schimper ! Quartin-Dillon a e 
A variable plant in dimensions, relative length of corolla, form of calyx-lobes, and 
farinose investment. 
2. ARDISIANDRA, Hook. fil.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ™ 
p. 633. 
Calyx 5-partite ; segments ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute. Corolla 
about equalling or scarcely exceeding the calyx, campanulate, 5-fid ; 
segments obtuse. Stamens adnate to base of corolla-tube ; filaments 
short, subulate; anthers ovate-lanceolate, apiculate. Ovary globose, 
multiovulate, free; style slender; stigma capitellate. Capsule in- 
Monotypic and not known from elsewhere. 
