486 LXXXVII. PRIMULACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Primula. 
pale purple, salver-shaped, 3-$ in. diam. ; lobes broad or narrow, mouth obscurely 
annulate. Ovary obovoid or globose, tip rounded. Capsule usually oblong, exceed- 
ing the calyx, sometimes globose and sunk in it. Seeds coarsely granulate.—The 
commonest Himalayan Primula, and very variable. 
Var, cachemiriana; leaves produced almost with the flowers, more mealy, P. 
cachemiriana, Munro in Garden, 1879, 535.— Western Himalaya. 
Van. puucifolia; leaves fewer longer-petioled, heads fewer-fid., calyx-teeth long 
narrower nearly equalling the corolla-tube, capsule globose sunk in the calyx 
{ripening very few seeds).— Kashmir, at Poosiana, alt, 9000 ft., Clarke. 
12. P. capitata, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4550; usually very mealy, leaves 
appearing with the flowers obovate-spathulate or oblanceolate obtuse or acute 
finely toothed usually copiously mealy beneath, fleshy leafy scales few or 0, 
heads very dense-fld. with the outer flowers deflexed and inner in bud forming 
a conical crown, flowers deep purple, tube long often wrinkled, limb flat or 
concave.— Fl. des Serres, vi. t. 618. P. globifera, Griff. Itin. Notes, 148. 
Srxxim and Buoran Himaraya, alt. 12-15,000 ft., Griffith, J. D. H. 
I retain this species as distinet from P. denticulata with great hesitation, though 
it differs much in habit and general appearance, and retains its characters in eulti- 
vation. 
13. P. erosa, Wall. Cat. 611; glabrous or puberulous, leaves not mealy 
fully developed with the flowers membranous obovate-spathulate or oblanceo- 
late toothed or erose reticulate fleshy leafy scales few or 0, flowers umbelled 
purple mealy, pedicels very short, calyx-lobes long or short, tube twice as long 
as the calyx, limb flat, mouth hardly annulate. Regel in Bot. Zeit. 1853, 333 ; 
Gartenfl. ii. t. 51. P. denticulata, var. erosa, Duby in DC. Prodr. viii, 45. 
TEMPERATE HiwALAYA ; from Kumaon to Bhotan, alt. 4500-9500 ft. (not seen in 
Sikkim). 
I suspect Duby to be right in reducing this to a variety of P. denticulata, but it 
differs in habit, and seems to be always recognised as distinct by Himalayan col- 
lectors and by cultivators in Europe. The leaves are sometimes 18 inches long. 
10 14. P. bellidifolia, King in Herb. Calc.; puberulous, fleshy scales few 
or 0, leaves membranous flaccid elongate oblanceolate or spathulate coarsely 
shallowly toothed, scape long, bracts minute concealed, flowers small densely 
capitate, corolla-tube Sadr times longer than the short obtusely lobed mealy 
calyx, lobes small spreading obcordate. 
Sruxxim Himaraya ; alt, 13,000 ft., King. 
Rootstock small, Leaves 2-4 in., obtuse, tapering into the petiole, pubescent 
on both surfaces, not wrinkled, nerves faint, teeth irregular. Scape 4-8 in., 
erect, glabrous. Heads nearly 1 in. diam.; flowers bluish-purple, quite sessile. 
Corolla glabrous; tube eylindrie, 1-4 in. long ; limb not so broad; mouth contracted, 
annulate. Stigma peltate. Capsule small, globose.—A very distinct species, with 
leaves like Bellis sylvestris, but quite thin and flaceid ; in this respect and in toothing 
very different from any form of P. erosa, denticulata, or capitata. 
** Scape normally much longer than the leaves (except P. tibetica). 
Flowers umbelled, rarely capitate, white pink or purple. Bracts forming a 
l-seriate involucre, gibbous or produced downwards at the base (obscurely in 
P. concinna), 
T Capsule oblong or cylindric, usually longer than the narrow fruiting 
calyx. 
15. P. farinosa, Linn.; Duby in DC. Prodr. viii. 44; stolons 0, more 
or less mealy, leaves $-1 in., sessile or subsessile obovate-spathulate obtuse 
