Primula Beidiiis in some respects an even more singular 

 species than P. sapphirina, from its compact head of 

 rather large ivory-white flowers, the very large calyx, and 

 the limb of the corolla, which is, from the incurvation of 

 its broad lobes, almost globular. It is a very recent dis- 

 covery of Mr. Duthie, made when (in August, 1884), as 

 Superintendent of the Botanical Gardens of Saharumpore, 

 he officially visited the higher regions of the Western 

 Himalaya in the province of Kumaon (that bordering 

 Nepal on the west). In an interesting account of that 

 excursion, printed in the Annual Report of those gardens, 

 and reprinted in the " Gardener's Chronicle," quoted above, 

 Mr. Duthie mentions the discovery of this Primula in the 

 Ralam valley on wet rocks near the glacier, at an elevation 

 of 12,000 to 13,000 feet, and describes it with the name 

 attached of his fellow-traveller, Mr. Reid. On a subsequent 

 excursion made in 1885 in British Garwhal, a province 

 immediately to the westward of Kumaon, Mr. Duthie again 

 met with Primula Reidii, and at the same elevation. 

 Seeds were taken from the Herbarium specimens sent by 

 Mr. Duthie, and the plants raised flowered in the Royal 

 Gardens contemporaneously with P. sappkirina , and under 

 like conditions. — /. 1). H. 



Fig. A. P. sapphirina ; 1, leaf ; 2, calyx ; 3, corolla laid open ; 4, ovary : — all 

 enlarged. 



Fig. B. P. Beidii; 1, calyx; 2, portion of corolla laid open; 3, ovary: — all 



enlarged. 



