almost white flowers, with a deep narrow sinus between 
the divisions of the corolline lobes. 
The Siberian Primrose has a very wide range of 
geographical distribution, from Lapland and Sweden across 
the continents of Europe and Asia to Dahuria, and it 
reappears in Arctic America; its southern limit, however, 
is Kashmir, from whence seeds were sent to the Royal 
Gardens by Dr. Aitchison, which flowered in June of last 
year. 
Desor. Slender, quite glabrous, not mealy. Leaves 
loosely tufted, long-petioled, half an inch to two inches long 
including the petiole, ovate elliptic or rarely obovate, obtuse 
or subacute, base narrowed into the petiole or. rounded, 
margins quite entire revolute in vernation, pale green above, 
paler beneath, nerves faint. Scapes very slender, three to 
eight inches high. Involucral bracts, four to six, whorled, 
erect, linear, obtuse, the base produced downwards into a 
flat appendage with a rounded tip. Flowers usually very 
numerous, loosely fascicled, drooping or inclined ; pedicels 
very slender, a quarter to three-quarters of an inch long. 
Calyx very narrowly campanulate, five-grooved, base sub- 
acute, teeth short, obtuse. Corolla pale pink, tube hardly 
longer than the calyx; limb flat; lobes obcuneate, two- 
lobed, the divisions rounded with an acute open sinus 
between them ; throat naked, not expanded.—J. D. H. 
‘Fig. 1, calyx; 2, corolla laid open; 3, calyx laid open, showing the pistil; 4, 
anthers :—al/ enlarged. 
