P, Parryi, Gray, figured at Tab. G185 of this work, and the 

 species now figured. 



P. Busbyi is the most recently discovered of American 

 Primulas, and was first found in the Mogollon Mountains 

 of New Mexico by the traveller whose name it bears, and 

 subsequently by Pringle on the summit of Mount "Wright- 

 son, one of the Santa Rita Mountains, in the adjacent 

 territory of Arizona. The flowers of P. Rusbyi are described 

 by Mr. Greene as being as large and as richly coloured as 

 those of P. Parryi, a statement not confirmed by a com- 

 parison of native specimens or of the figures given in this 

 work. The Kew plants were communicated by Mr. Ware of 

 Tottenham. The introducer of the species (in 1885) was 

 Mr. Dean of Bedfont. 



Descr. Leaves three to five inches long, not sheathed at 

 the base, narrowly spathulate, subacute, callously crenulate, 

 narrowed into the rather slender petiole, pale green above. 

 Scape longer than the leaves, slender, farinose at the tip, 

 and on the short erect lanceolate bracts, and slender pedicels 

 which are suberect and one to two inches long. Flowers 

 inclined or drooping. Calyx cylindric, one-third of an inch 

 long, cleft to the middle into oblong subacute erect lobes. 

 Corolla bright rose-red; tube cylindric, rather longer than 

 the calyx; limb three-quarters of an inch in diameter, 

 lobes obcordate rather incurved, mouth small, yellow, not 

 thickened. Stamens very small ; anthers linear-oblong. 

 Ovary globose, style slender, stigma capitate. — J.D.H. 



Fig. 1, Apex of leaf ; 2, calyx ; 3, corolla laid open ; 4, pistil -.—all enlarged. 



