Williams and Morrow,' gives it as an inhabitant of Simoda : but 

 as we have never received it in any of the numerous collections 

 of specimens we have received from Japan, is it not likely, since 

 the Japanese are great gardeners, they may have imported it from 

 Siberia, as they appear to have done the Primula Sinensis ? At 

 auy rate it is a great acquisition to European gardens. 



Descr. Moot a rather slender horizontal or ascending rhizome. 

 Leaves all radical, downy, as is all the herbaceous part of the 

 plant, ovate or oblong-ovate, cordate, dark-green above, paler 

 beneath, wrinkled, raany-lobed at the margin, the lobes acute, 

 toothed. Petioles terete, three to four inches long, tufted with 

 scales or bracts at their base. Scape longer than the foliage, 

 bearing an umbel four to five inches in diameter ; the pedicels 

 with an involucre of several-whorled linear- lanceolate scales or 

 bracteoles at their bases. Calyx rather large, of five deep, ovato- 

 lanceolate, striated lobes. Corolla hypocrateriform ; the limb an 

 inch and a half broad, plane, deep purple-lilac, with a white star 

 at the faux ; lobes of the limb deeply obcordate. Stamens quite 

 included. Ovary globose, surrounded at the base by a hypogy- 

 nous cup. 



Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Pistil -.—both magnified. 



