Tap. 7079. 
A. PRIMULA pusiLia. 
B. PRIMULA petionanis, var, nana. 
. Natives of the Himalaya. 
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Nat. Ord. Priwunace®.—Tribe PRIxULEA. 
Genus Pamuta, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. yol. ii. p. 631.) 
A. Primvzta pusilla; parvula, dense cxespitosa, foliis rosulatis patenti- 
recurvis spathulatis oblanceolatisve obtusis pinnatifido-dentatis denti- 
bus recurvis supra canis subtus puberulis, costa crassa, scapo gracili, 
floribus capitatis, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis calycibusque zquilongis 
glanduloso-farinaceis, calyce ad medium 5-fido lobis acutis erectis corollz 
tubum brevem equantibus, corollz purpures lobis patentibus obcordatis 
fauce dense villosa, staminibus basi tubi insertis, ovario depresso globoso, 
stylo incluso.. 
P, pusilla, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey & Wall. vol. ii. p. 22; Wall. 
Cat. No. 609 ; Tent. Fl. Nep. t. 32; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iii. p. 492; 
Duby in DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 42; Mem. Prim. t. 1, f. 2. 
P. humilis, Steud. Nomencl. Ed. ii. p. 395. 
Androsace primuloides, Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 81. 
A. primulina, Spreng. Syst. Veg. Cur. post. p. 56. 
A very common plant in moist situations in the Alpine 
region of the Himalaya, at elevations of 13,000 to 
16,000 feet, from the province of Kumaon eastwards to 
Sikkim, and it no doubt extends thence into Bhotan, and 
possibly into the Alps of Western China. Forming con- 
siderable tufts, its sapphire-blue flowers are very attractive. 
Unlike so many of its congeners, it is remarkable for its 
never varying from the type here figured throughout its 
wide range of distribution; and may always be distin- 
guished from its many dwarf Himalayan allies by the thick 
ring of woolly hairs at the mouth of the corolla-tube. The 
plant figured was raised at Kew from seeds sent by the 
Director of the Royal Botanical Garden, Calcutta, in 
1886, and it flowered in May, 1888. It may be well to 
mention that it must not be confounded with the North | 
American P. pusilla of Goldie (Tab. nost. 3620), published 
a very few years earlier than Wallich’s pusilla, and which is 
Octosrr Ist, 1889. 
