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PrimuLa DENTICULATA. Purpte Nepau 
CowsLIpP. 
Class and Order. 
PenTANDRIA Monoeyni. 
( Nat. Ord.—Primutacex. ) 
Generic Character. 
Flores subumbellati, involucrati. Calyx tubulosus, 5- 
fidus seu 5-dentatus, persistens. Corolla tubulosa, fauce 
vel nuda vel glandulosa, limbo 5-lobo. Capsula apice 10- 
dentata, polysperma. Spreng. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Primuta denticulata ; foliis oblongo-spathulatis undulatis 
reticulatim rugosis denticulatis subhirsutis glutinosis 
margine revolutis, umbella densa multiflora, corolle 
limbo plano lobis bifidis. 
Primvta denticulata. Sm. Exot. Bot. v. 2. p. 109. £. 114. 
Flora Ind. ed. Wall. v.1.p.17. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 
v. 1. p. 574. 
This is another of the many interesting plants which Mr. 
Verrcu has so successfully introduced and reared, and for 
which he obtained the certificate of merit from the Horti- 
cultural Society of London. The seeds were received from 
the North of India, having been among those of late so ex- 
tensively and liberally distributed by the Directors of the 
Honorable the East India Company, through the medium 
of Dr. Royre. It is a native of the mountains bordering on 
Silhet, and of Nepal, and is particularly abundant in the 
vicinity of Katmandu, and in Gossain-Than: where no 
doubt it makes the pastures glow with a purple tint, as does 
its allied species, P. farinosa, in the West of Yorkshire. 
Dr. Watuicn bas remarked that, in Porrer’s Supplement 
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