Tab. 6961. 

 primula sapphirina. 



Native of the Sikkim Himalaya. 



PRIMULA Reidii. 

 Native of the Kumaon Himalaya. 



Nat. Ord. Peimuiace^:.— Tribe Peimule^!. 

 Genus Pbimula, Zinn.; (Benth. et HooJc.f. Gen. PL vol. ii. p. 631.) 



Pbimula sappMrina ; perpusilla, dense csespitosa, foliis ca?spitosis subrosulatis 

 cuneato-spatbulatis obovatis oblanceolatisve in petiolum latum angustatis, 

 grosse pectinato- v. pinnatifido-dentatis, scapo gracillimo plurifloro, bracteis 

 minutis, floribus brevissime pedicellatis nutantibus, calycis parvi lobis brevibus 

 obtusis v. subacutis, corolla? late infundibularis sapphirinae v. violaceae tubo 

 brevi tereti, lobis obovatis 2-fidis, capsula globosa inclusa. 



P. sappbirina, Hook. f. and Thomson in Serb. Ind. Or., and in Flora of British 

 India, vol. iii. p. 492 ; Watt in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xx. p. 10, tab. 13 C. 



Primula Reidii ; foliis oblongis oblongo-oblanceolatisve obtusis grosse lobulato- 

 dentatis vel -crenatis in petiolum angustatis, supra convexis bullatis laxe sub- 

 sericeo-villosis, scapo rigido plurifloro, bracteis latis, floribus brevissime 

 pedicellatis nutantibus, calycis ampli campanulati intus farinosi lobis brevibus 

 latis rotundatis glanduloso-ciliatis, corolla? eburnese tubo calyce sequilongo lobis 

 late oblongis in globum conniventibus apice 2-lobis cum dente interjecto, 

 ovario globoso, capsular globosse valvis ad apicem membranaceis. 



C. Keidii, Ditthie in Report on Saharumpore Bot. Gardens for 1885, and in 

 Gard. Chron. N. S. vol. xxv. (1886), p. 277 in note, and N. S. vol. xxvi. (1886), 

 p. 691, fig. 136. 



Of the two Himalayan Primroses here figured, P. sajiphi- 

 rina was discovered by myself in June, 1849, in the alpine 

 regions of the Sikkim Himalaya, growing at elevations of 

 13,000 to 15,000 feet, where it starred the otherwise bare 

 soil and rocks, soon after the melting of the snow, with its 

 o-em-like flowers. It has since been collected by Dr. King's 

 native emissaries, by whom seeds were transmitted to 

 Calcutta, and thence to Kew. It is very similar in size 

 and habit to P. pusilla, Wallich, of similar elevations in 

 Nepal and Sikkim, but in which species the corolla is 

 salver-shaped and white, and the throat bears a tuft of 

 vfoolly hairs. The seeds were sown at Kew, March 30, 

 1886, and the plants raised flowered in a cold pit in May 

 of this year. 

 oct. 1st, 1887. 



