Tas. 7246. 
PRIMULA Forpestr. 
Native of China. 
Nat. Ord. Primutacez. Tribe Paiute. 
Genus Primuta, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f, Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 631.) 
Primvta Forbesii ; annua, gracilis, pilosa, foliis longe petiolatis ovato-cordatis 
obtusis margine irregulariter lobulatis crenato-dentatisque, inter nervos 
utrinque coste 3-4 convexis, scapo gracili puberulo superne et inflores- 
centia farinaceis, floribus longe pedicellatis roseis in verticillos 2 remotos 
paucifloros dispositis, bracteis parvis verticillatis pedicellis multoties 
brevioribus, calycis infundibularis farinacei lobis ovatis subacutis, corollze 
hypocrateriformis tubo angusto calyce paullo longiore lobis patentibus 
Shoedatis, ore obtuse 5-dentato dentibus inflexis, antheris sessilibus 
brevibus, ovario globoso, stylo gracili, stigmate capitellato. 
P. Forbesii, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, vol. xxxiii. (1886), p. 64; Pax 
: Monogr. Prim. in Engler Bot. Jahrb. vol. x. p. 171; Forbes & Hemsl. in 
Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xxvi. p. 38; Collett & Hemsley, 1.c. vol. xxviii. 
p. 81. 
Primula Forbesii is one of the only two known species of 
the genus which are strictly annual, in so far as that they die 
after first flowering, though they may perhaps moreaccurately 
be designated as monocarpic, if, as is probable, they form 
seedling plants the first year and flower and die in the 
following. Upon this character M. Franchet has founded 
the section Monocarpice to include P. Forbesii, and the 
allied Chinese species, P. malacoides, adding that it forms 
the transition between Primula and Androsace. 
P. Forbesii adds another to the long list of Primulas 
lately discovered in the mountain districts of the interior 
of China. It was first found by the French missionary 
Delavay, in marshy ground near Tali in Yunnan; and 
latterly by General Sir H. Collett, K.C.B., F.L.8., in great 
abundance on the hills of the Shan States in Hastern 
Burma, at elevations of three thousand feet, which thus 
brings it into the limits of the British Indian Flora. 
The specimen here figured was exhibited at a meeting 
Juty Ist, 1892. 
