: Tas. 6493. 
PRIMULA stsrrtoa, var. kashmiriana. — 
Native of the Western Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. Prrmuntacem.—Tribe PRIMULEX. — 
Genus Primuta, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii, p. 631.) 
Primvta sibirica; glabra, efarinosa, foliis laxis petiolatis ovatis ellipticis v. oblongis 
rarius obovatis integerrimis v. marginibus leviter undulatis pallide viridibus 
marginibus vernatione revolutis, scapis gracilibus, involacri bracteis carnosulis 
verticillatis lineari-oblongis obtusis basi in auricalam apice rotundatam demum 
productis pedicellis multo brevioribus, calyce tubuloso-campanulato_breviter 
obtuse 4-dentato, corolla tubo graciii, limbi explanati rosei lobis cuneatis 2-lobis, 
sinu acuto, fauce nuda. 
Var. kashmiriana, floribus minoribus, corolle tubo calycem vix superante lobis 
angustioribus, 
This pretty Primula has been cultivated under the name 
of P. elegans, Duby, from which, judging by the poor figure 
which that author gives in his “ Memoire sur la Famille des 
Primulacées’’ (Tab. 1), it differs widely in its petiolate leaves, 
slender scapes and pedicels, obtuse involucral bracts, and 
in the short calyx-teeth. In fact, I have no doubt that P. 
elegans is nothing but the lovely P. rosea, figured last year 
(Tab. 6437); the only difference I find in the description is, 
that the flowers of P. elegans are, on its discoverer Jacque- 
mont’s authority, lilac, which may be accounted for by the 
flowers having faded; in fact, Duby says of his elegans, 
“an a priore (rosea) revera distincta?” The close affinity 
of the plant here figured to the P. sibirica is evident from 
referring to the plate of that plant (Tab. 3167), which 
represents its large flowered state, and it is still more like 
the P. sibirica var. integerrima (Tab. 3445), a native of the 
Altai mountains, which only differs in the corolla-tube being 
elongated and twice as long as the calyx. In a dried state 
it is very difficult to distinguish P. sibirica from P. involu- 
crata (P. Munroi, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1847, t. 15), which, 
however, differs in the shorter calyx, long corolla-tube, pale 
May Ist, 1880. 
