p 
Primula. | LXXXVII. PRIMULACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 485 
Rootstock horizontal. Leaves few, lobes 10-12, pubescent on both surfaces; 
petiole 2-5 in. Scape twice as long as the leaves; bracts small; pedicels slender. 
Calyx glabrous, campanulate, cleft half way, teeth acute. Corolla 4-32 in. diam., 
tube twice as long as the calyx, funnel-shaped.—A near ally of the European and 
Siberian P. cortusoides, and of the Turkestan P, Kauffmanniana, Regel, but the acute 
lobing of the broader leaf is very different. 
9. P. filipes, Watt in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. ined.; sparsely pubescent, 
not mealy, leaves 1-1} in. orbicular ovate or oblong cordate entire lobulate 
or toothed, petiole as long as the blade very slender, scape shorter than the 
leaves 6-8-fld., calyx-lobes short very broad, corolla flesh-coloured, mouth not 
annulate, limb flat, capsule globose included, seeds very minute smooth. 
Primula, Griff. Itin. Notes, 193, n. 396 ; Notul. iv. 299; Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 485, 
KE 
Buoran; rocks near Chuka, alt. 6500-ft., Griffith. 
Rootstock elongate, woody. Leaves membranous. Scape about equalling the 
petiole, slender in flower, thickened in fruit; bracts small, subulate. Calyx broadly 
campanulate. Corolla-tube Ł in., three times as long as the calyx, funnel-shaped ; 
limb as much broad; lobes obovate, 2-lobed. Seeds 3; in., dark brown, obtusely- 
angled.—Allied to the Chinese P: obconica. Hance (P. poculiformis, Bot. Mag. t. 
6582), but much smaller and more delicate, and the corolla-tube is longer. 
10. P. Listeri, King ms.; pubescent, not mealy, rootstock woody, leaves 
1-1} in. orbicular-cordate sinuate-lobed entire or denticulate very membranous, 
petiole equalling the blade or longer very slender, scapes shorter than. the 
petiole few-fld., bracts few linear, calyx campanulate, lobes broad short, corolla 
rose-pink, tube funnel-shaped, mouth not annulate. 
Sixxrw Himaraya; Tonglo and the Singalelah ranges, in bamboo jungles, alt. 
9-10,000 ft. 
I retain this species as distinct from P filipes with great doubt, having very 
imperfeet specimens of this last; it differs chiefly in the more orbieular lobulate 
leaves, broader calyx and much shorter more funnel-shaped corolla-tube. Petiole 
with a very short small sheath. Corolla-tube outside, and mouth pubescent. Whole 
plant smelling like Geranium Robertianum (Watt). 
B. Leaves sessile or base narrowed into a broad winged petiole, margins 
revolute in vernation (petiole sometimes long and slender in P. sibirica, in- 
volucrata, tibetica, and petiolaris). 
* Scape normally much longer than the leaves. Flowers very numerous in 
dense heads, or umbellate with very short pedicels, purple. Bracts small, 
short, usually hidden by the flowers, bases not gibbous or produeed.  Corol/a- 
tube usually much exceeding the calyx. 
11. P. denticulata, Smith Exot. Bot. ii. 109, t. 114; sparingly mealy, 
leaves not fully developed till after flowering surrounded at the base by thiek 
fleshy leafy scales, leaves obovate-spathulate obtuse sharply minutely toothed 
or subentire, flowers capitate, heads depressed, corolla-tube usually twice as 
long as the long or short obtuse or acute calyx-teeth, corolla mouth obscurely 
annulate, lobes obcordate. Duby in DC. Prodr. viii. 44; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 
Carey & Wall. ii. 17 ; Wall. Cat. 607 ; Bot. Reg. 1842, t.47; Bot. Mag. t. 3959. 
P. Hoffmeisteri, Klotzsch in Bot. Reise Pr. Wald. t. 56. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 713,000 ft. Kuasa Mrs., 
alt. 5000 ft.—Distris. Affzhanistan. 
Rootstock stout, short, thick. Leaves erect or spreading, midrib broad, never 
reticulate. Scape stout or slender, 4-18 in.; bracts short, unequal, sometimes 
connate. Calyx long or short, base acute or truncate, lobes obtuse or acute. Corolla 
