Tas. 6582. 
PRIMULA POCULIFORMIS. 
Native of Central China. 
Nat. Ord. PrrmuLacex.—Tribe PrimvuLEx. 
Genus Primuta, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 631.) 
Primvta poculiformis ; molliter pubescens vy. puberula, foliis gracile petiolatis late 
oblongo- v. subrotundato-cordatis apice rotundatis lobulato-dentatis subinte- 
grisve membranaceis nervis impressis reticulatis, sinu basi angusta v. lata, scapis 
gracilibus folia superantibus, floribus umbellatis, bracteis paucis linearibus 
patentibus inzqualibus, pedicellis gracilibus inequalibus patulis, calyce poculi- 
formi late infundibulari-campanulato breviter obtuse 5-dentato obscure 5-gono 
puberulo, corolle tubo gracili calyce longe excedente, limbo plano 5-fido pallide 
purpureo fauce nuda, segmentis obcordatis, lobis rotundatis, ovario globoso. 
I find no description of this elegant primrose, which 
with the habit and foliage of P. cortusioides (Tab. 399 and 
5528) has the calyx of the Himalayan P. filipes, Watt 
MSS., and is one of many instances of China containing 
species of plants intermediate in character, as in position, 
between those of Northern India and Japan. It was dis- 
covered by Mr. Maries when travelling for Messrs. Veitch 
in the interior of China, at the Ichang gorge, and flowered 
at Chelsea in September of last year. . filipes, on the 
other hand, is a native of rocks at Chuka in Bhotan, at an 
elevation of 6500 feet, where it was discovered by Griffith, 
who figured it in his ‘“ Icones Plantarum Asiaticarum,” 
t. 485 (Posthumous Papers, vol. ii. p. 123, n. 396, and 
Notulz, part iv. p. 299), but without a name; it is very 
nearly allied indeed to P. poculiformis in both habit and 
form of leaves, calyx and corolla, but is very much smaller 
in all its parts, with filiform petioles and scapes, and more 
rounded leaves. 
P. poculiformis (so named in reference to the form of 
the calyx) is probably a very variable plant. The earliest 
flowering specimens sent by Mr. Veitch were less hairy, 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1881. 
