Tas. 8073. 
PRIMULA cocxsornrana. 
China. 
PrimuLacea.—Tribe PrimvuLex. 
Primuta, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 631. 
Primula cockburniana, Hems/. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxix. p. 313; Gard. 
Chron, 1905, vol.-i. pp. 331 e¢ 345, fig. 137; Paw.et Knuth in Engl. 
Pflanzenr., Primulacez, p. 126; species floribus saturate aurantiaco-rubris 
- in verticillos superpositos dispositis distinctissima. 
Herba perennis, preter inflorescentiam plus minusve farinosam fere omnino 
glabrescens. Folia szepe longe petiolata, membranacea, anguste obovato- 
oblonga, petiolo incluso 2-5 poll. longa, supra medium 3-1} poll. lata, 
obscure lobulata, minute denticulata, apice rotundata, deorsum sensim 
attenuata, presertim subtus paulum pulverulenta. Scapus gracilis, 
erectus, 4-12 poll. altus, floribus in verticillos 2-4 superpositos dispositis ; 
verticilli 2-7-flori. Bractew lineari-triangulares, 1-14 lin. longew. Pedi- 
celli ascendentes, 6-9 lin. longi. Calyx anguste campanulatus, circiter 
2 lin. longus; lobi ovato-deltoidei, vix 1 lin. longi, erecti, acuti, intus 
dense farinosi. Corolla saturate aurantiaco-rubra, glabra; tubus cylin- 
dricus, apice paulum ampliatus, vix 4 poll. longus; limbus patens, 6-7 
lin, diam., lobis obovatis apice cordatis vel retusis. Capsula oblonga, 
3 lin. longa, 14 lin. lata. 
This Primula lacks the vigour of constitution and large 
size of flower of some of the allied species previously 
brought into cultivation, but the remarkable colour of the 
corolla gives it a unique position in the large and deservedy 
popular genus to which it belongs, 
For the opportunity of figuring it we are indebted to 
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, who supplied a plant which 
flowered with them in the open air in June, 1905. It is 
one of their numerous introductions from China, whence 
seeds and dried specimens were sent by their collector, 
Mr. K. H. Wilson, who met with it in moist or marshy 
alpine meadows at elevations of from 9,000 to 11,000 feet, 
to the immediate west of Tachienlu, West Szechuen. It 
was very abundant in this locality, but Mr. Wilson did not 
see it elsewhere. 
P. cockburniana is included by Pax and Knuth in the 
section Cankrienia, which comprises species possessing, 
amongst others, the following characters :—Plant without 
stolons. Leaves membranous or papery, not, or scarcely 
distinctly lobed, toothed. Calyx not accrescent. Flowers 
May Ist, 1906. 
