to the “‘Encycl. Botanique,” the station given for it is 
« Chillongo on the coast of Africa,” instead of Chittigong 
in Upper Nepal,” as stated by Sir James Smirn, in “ Exotic 
Botany,’ where it is first described and figured from a 
drawing made in India. Mr. Verrcn has succeeded in rais- 
ing and flowering it in the greenhouse, and probably when 
it shall be more increased and planted in the open air, it 
will succeed there as well as our European Primulas. It 
has flowered in March, 
Descr. Its root is perennial, consisting of several thick, 
fleshy fibres. While young, “ it bears on the top of this 
root a number of large, oval, concave, acute, closely imbri- 
cated, rose-coloured, membranous bracteas, which em- 
brace all the tender parts, and even the imperfectly-formed 
umbel. As the plant advances in age, most of these dis- 
appear.” (Watuicu.) Probably these are what may be 
observed at the base of our plant; but they are leafy at the 
margins. The leaves themselves are oblong-spathulate, 
two to four inches long, waved, wrinkled with the tightly 
reticulated nerves, the margins revolute, and sharply tooth- 
ed ; petiole broad, reddish. Scape solitary from the centre 
of the leaves, scarcely a span high, bearing a dense, almost 
lobose umbel of purplish-lilac flowers. Pedicels short. 
alyx cylindrical, deeply cut into five lanceolate, erect, 
brownish-green segments. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube 
and mouth yellow: the limb flat; the lobes obcordate, 
deeply cleft. Anthers nearly sessile, inserted at the infla- 
tion on the top of thetube. Ovary globose: style short ; 
stigma capitate. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla laid open; magnified. 
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