aAB. 7217, 
PRIMULA Inpertatis. 
Native of Java. 
Nat. Ord. Primttacez. Tribe PRIMULER. 
Genus Patmuta, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. ii. p. 631.) 
PrRIMULA imperialis ; elata, robusta, sub-efarinosa, foliis elongato-obovatis spa- 
thulatisve anguste denticulatis apice rotundatis subcoriacceis, inter nervos 
depressos creberrime bullato-reticulatis, subtus pallidioribus dense lacu- 
nosis glandulis minimis globosis obsitis, costa ampla crassa, scapo valido, 
verticillis dense multi-floris, bracteis numerosis erectis lineari-subulatis basi 
confluentibus quam pedicellos suberectos brevioribus, calyce cupulari ad 
medium 5-fido basi rotundato, lobis triangularibus erectis obtusis. corolle 
ochraceze tubo calyce duplo longiore, fauce subinflato crenulatim annu- 
lato, lobis fere rotundatis 2-fidis, ovario globoso, stylo gracili, antheris 
parvis, capsula globosa calyci xquilonga late umbonata, seminibus 
minutis obtuse angulatis papillosis. 
P. imperialis, Jungh. in Tijdschrift. Nat. Gesch. vol. vii. p. 298; Miquel Fl. 
Ind. Bat. vol. ii. p. 1001; Watson in “The Garden,” xl. 266, cum Ie. 
Cankrienia chrysantha, De Vriese in Jaarb. der Maatch. van Tuinhow. 
1850, p. 30 (cum Ic. in Flore des. Serres iterata) ; Plant. Jungh. vol. i. 
p. 80. : 
As I have elsewhere stated (under P. Poissoni, Plate 
7216), I erred when figuring and describing the Himalayan 
P. prolifera (Plate 6732), in referring the Javan P. im- 
perialis to that species. Comparing the figures now 
accessible of the two plants, as hitherto grown in this 
country, their union would seem to be hardly excusable, 
but a reference to the wild Javanese specimens of 
of P. imperialis, preserved in the Herbarium, and a com- 
parison of these with those of P. prolifera, will modify that 
opinion, so different are some of the native specimens of 
the former from the gigantic robust plant that has flowered 
at Kew, and so large are some of those of P. prolifera 
which even rival its congener. Nor must it be overlooked, 
as bearing on the subject, that recent investigations have 
proved that many Javanese and other Malayan mountain 
plants, once supposed to be endemic, are absolutely 
identical with Himalayan. On this matter I have only 
further to say, that a most careful re-examination of the 
wild, forms of the two species elicits as the only apparent 
distinctions the more robust habit, the thicker texture, 
broader mid-rib, close reticulate nervation, and bullate 
surface of the foliage of the Javanese plant and’ its 
deeper coloured flowers. 
Fesruaky Ist, 1892. 
