nor any tendency to doubling. There is no reference to 
J. primulinum in the ‘Chi-wu-ming,’ which is rich in 
details concerning Yunnan plants.” Dr. Henry is led by 
the foregoing facts. to the conclusion that 7. nudiflorum 
was long ago introduced into the district from the north, 
and has become evergreen and larger-flowered under the 
different climatic conditions. : 
Whatever its descent, J. primulinum is a great acquisi-— 
tion, and should it prove as hardy as the old J. nudiflorum, it 
will doubtless be widely planted. It has withstood sixteen 
degrees of frost against a north wall in Messrs. James 
Veitch & Sons’ nursery. It also does well as a pot-piant. 
With regard to its not bearing fruit, the same may be ~ 
said of J. nudiflorum, so far as our knowledge goes. Not — 
one of the numerous wild and cultivated Specimers in the ~ 
Kew Herbarium bears a single fruit. 
J. primulinum was one of the first plants introduced _ 
from China by Mr. E. H. Wilson, for Messrs. Veitch, who 
received a First Class Certificate for it last April. It has 
flowered freely at Kew, both indoors and out. ae 
Descr.—A rambling, evergreen, glabrous shrub. Stems 
and branches quadrangular, slender, green. Leaves tri- 
foliolate, on slender stalks; leaflets almost sessile, rather 
thick, oblong-lanceolate, one to two inches long, entire, 
dark green and shining above, paler beneath, apiculate. 
Flowers solitary on axillary peduncles or branchlets 
furnished with scale-like or leaf-like, simple bracts, prim- 
rose-yellow, with a darker eye, one inch and a half to two 
inches across. Calyz-lobes lanceolate, acute, slightly 
hairy.  Corolla-lobes usually _ six, obovate-spathulate 
rounded, sometimes duplicated and the inner ones shorter. 
Stamens included. Style exserted in the single flowers 
Fruit unknown.—W,. B. H. aoe 
Fig. 1, ovary and calyx with one lobe removed :—enlarged. 
