Henry’s history of his specimen. The latter he most kindly 
sent up for figuring in June last, and having planted it out 
in a border by a house-wall at Kew, it throve well, con- 
tinuing to flower and mature a few seeds till August, when 
it was taken up and returned uninjured to its owner, with 
grateful acknowledgments. This then is a remarkable 
case of a plant occurring in remote and isolated areas, at 
great differences of elevation. In Java P. prolifera inhabits 
the tops of the loftiest mountains at 8000 to 9000 feet ; 
and I can find no difference between the Javan and Indian 
plants, except that the bracts of the lower whorl of flowers 
become usually elongate and foliaceous in Java; a tendency 
to which I find in the Khasian specimens, but not in the 
same degree. The position of the stamens in the tube of 
the corolla, and the length of the latter, both vary greatly. 
The genus Cankrienia was founded by De Vriese on a 
mistaken view of the fruit, and is now abandoned. The 
foliage is by far the largest of any Primula, that of both 
Khasian and Javan examples attaining eighteen inches in 
length and five in breadth; the Sikkim ones are always 
smaller. 
Descr. Rootstock stout; leaf-buds mealy, with. straw- 
_ coloured powder, like that of the inflorescence. eaves six 
to sixteen inches long by one to three broad, narrowly 
obovate-oblong, contracted into a broad or rather slender 
but winged petiole, obtuse, wrinkled, irregularly toothed 
or nearly entire, glabrous or puberulous beneath. Scape 
six to twenty inches high, sometimes as thick as a goose- 
quill, strict, erect, with two to six superposed rather distant 
whorls of faintly sweet-scented flowers; bracts small, lan- 
_ ceolate, or of the lowest flowers elongate linear-lanceolate 
spreading and recurved; pedicels one-third to one inch 
long. Calye hemispheric; lobes triangular, or subulate 
in small forms. Corolla pale golden yellow, tube much 
longer than the calyx, a quarter to half an inch long, 
cylindric; limbs three-quarters of an inch in diameter ; 
lobes spreading, obcordate, mouth more or less annulate. 
Anthers small, oblong. Ovary globose ; style slender, stigma 
capitate. Capsule globose, hardly exceeding the calyx ; 
POY aaa with five split valves. Seeds — 
Phe Calyx and pistil; 2, corolla laid open ; 3, pistil; 4, - fruit all 
