Tas. 7216. 
PRIMULA Potssonr. 
Native of China. 
Nat. Ord. Priuvutaces. Tribe PRIMULEA. 
Genus Prruvuta, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. ii. p. 631.) 
Prmvta Poissoni; elata, robusta, glaberrima, efarinosa, foliis rigide coriaceis 
glaucescentibus obovato-oblongis apice rotundatis argute dentatis, 
costa valida in petiolum latissimum vaginantem dilatata, nervis ascen- 
dentibus gracillimis, scapo valido foliis multoties longiore tereti, floribus 
perplurimis amplis in verticillos superpositos congestis, bracteis lanceo- 
latis erectis herbaceis pedicellos squantibus, calyce ¢ poll. longo tereti 
supra medium 5 fido basi rotundato lobis erectis ovato-lanceolatis sub- 
acutis, corollze tubo infundibulari calyce paullo longiore intus puberulo, 
limbo explanato roseo, lobis obcordatis crenulatis, ore annulo crenato 
aureo instructo, antheris parvis basin versus tubo corolle sessilibus, 
ovario globoso, stylo breve stigmato capitato, capsula obovoidea late 
umbonata calyce fere squilonga. 
P. Poissoni, Franchet in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. vol. xxxiti. (1886) p. 67; Paz 
Monogr. Prim. in Engl. Jahrb.: Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ, Linn. Soc. 
vol. xxvi. (1889) p. 41. 
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On Tab. 5916 is figured Primula japonica, which may be 
considered as the type of the Asiatic species with superposed 
whorls of flowers; and at Tab. 6732 another species with 
similar inflorescence, P. prolifera, Wall., under which I 
classed the Javanese P. imperialis, Jungh. (Cankrienia 
chrysantha, De Vriese), an error which I hasten to acknow- 
ledge, and shall shortly atone for by the publication of the 
true P. imperialis, which has flowered at Kew, and of which 
a drawing has been made for this work. Recent discoveries 
in the interior of China have added several other species — 
with the same inflorescence, including the subject of the 
present plate, which differs from both those first mentioned 
in the much more coriaceous pale subglaucous leaves, the 
funnel-shaped tube of the corolla, and especially in the 
capsule, which is not globose but shortly obovoid. 
Seedlings of P. Poissont were received at the Royal Gar- 
dens, Kew, from the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, in 1890, 
plants from which flowere 
January Ist, 1892. 
d in a greenhouse in April, and 
