rightly referred to the earlier published P. mistassinica, 
Mich. (Tab. nost. 2973), itself placed by many authors 
under the widely distributed P. farinosa, L.—J. D. H, 
B. P. retioaris; glabra v. puberula interdum farinosa, foliis dense rosulatis 
membranaceis polymorphis erosis dentatis crenulatisve sessilibus v. petio- 
latis, floribus longiuscule pedicellatis sessilibus v. in scapum umbellatis, 
calycis dentibus acutis, corolle albz rosew v. pallide purpuree tubo infun- 
dibulari calyce longiore, ore obscure annulato, limbi plani lobis obcordatis 
rotundatisve emarginatis 2-fidis crenatis dentatisve, ovario globoso acuto, 
capsula globosa calycis tubo dilatato immersa, seminibus majuscalis 
subglobosis atris papillosis. 
P. petiolaris, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey & Wall. vol. ii. p. 22; Tent. 
Fi. Nepal. t. 31; Cat. No. 603; Duby in DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 37 ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iii. p. 493. P. tridentata, Don Prodr, Fl. 
Nep.p.77. P. sessilis, Royle mss. 
Var. nana, Hook. f. 1. ¢.; foliis sessilibus v. breviter petiolatis obovato- 
oblongis v. spathulatis, scapo 0 v. brevissimo, corollw lobis obcordatis 
integris v. dentatis. 
F. eure Wall. lc. p. 23; Cat. No. 212. P Primula, Griff. Ic. Plant. Asiat. 
t. 485, f. 2. 
One of the commonest and most variable Primroses in 
India, or perhaps in the world, abounding under innumer- 
able forms throughout the Himalaya, at elevations of 8000 
to 14,000 feet from Garwhal to Bhotan; varying from a 
dwarf alpine no bigger than a penny piece with sessile 
leaves and flowers, to a coarse herb with long-petioled 
spathulate obovate or orbicular-cordate leaves a span long, 
and umbelled flowers on a stout scape; add to this that 
some forms are glabrous, others have the young parts 
clothed with bright sulphur-coloured meal, and that the 
corolla varies in length of tube from one-sixth to two- 
thirds of an inch, and its limb from one-third to one and 
‘a half inch broad, with lobes entire crenate toothed and — 
even lacerate. The variety here figured is referable to 
the form I have called nana, in which, however, the 
corolla-lobes are more often deeply toothed; it is found 
throughout the range of the species at elevations of 10,000 
to 14,000 fect, and flowers in spring. The Royal Gardens 
are indebted to Professor Michael Foster, F.R.S., for plants 
of var. nana, which flowered in April of the present year.— 
BAB ES? eh : 
Fig. A. P. rusia. Fig. 1, leaf under-surface; 2, flower; 3, calyx and 
bract ; 4, corolla laid open; 5, ovary :—adl enlarged. ; i 
Fig. B. P. retiotaris, var. nana. Fig. 1, bracts and pedicels; 2, calyx 5 
3, corolla Jaid open; 4, ovary :—all enlarged. 
