490 LXXXVII. PRIMULACEA, (J. D. Hooker.) [Primula. 
26. P. elongata, Watt. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. tned.; leaves long- 
etioled 3-5 in. membranous obovate or oblanceolate obtuse crenulate narrowed 
into a usually long petiole mealy or not beneath, scape tall, flowers few sub- 
sessile, bracts short subulate, ca yx narrow cleft to the middle, teeth lanceolate, 
corolla yellow glabrous, tube very long, throat funnel-shaped not annulate, lobes 
rounded obcordate toothed. (Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. Prim. 14.) 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Zemu valley, alt. 12-13,000 ft., J. D. H. 
A rather slender species, with few yellow flowers remarkable chiefly for the 
length of the corolla-tube, with rounded toothed lobes, short bracts, and globose ovary 
with a subacute tip like P. obtusifolia, of which it is possibly a form. —Corolla-tube 
3 of an inch long (including the throat), three times as long as the calyx. Fruit 
not seen, 
tt Ovary rounded and usually thickened at the top, Capsule oblong or 
cylindric, exceeding the calyx. 
27. P. Stuartii, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 20; 
mealy or not, quite glabrous, leaves 4-10 in. coriaceous suberect broadly or 
narrowly oblanceolate or obovate-spathulate acute or obtuse quite entire crenu- 
late or finely toothed, midrib very broad, petiole broadly membranous below, 
flowers loosely umbelled, bracts elongate, calyx terete, lobes usually long narruw 
acute rarely obtuse, corolla yellow or purple, mouth contracted, tube equalling 
the calyx-throat or long as the tube, fim various, seeds coarsely granulate. 
Throughout the SUBALPINE and ALPINE HIMALAYA and TisET; alt. 12-16,000 ft. 
—Disrris. Affghanistan. 
After long study I am unable to draw any specific characters between the man y 
forms of purple and yellow (rarely white) Primulas included under the above character. 
If there are species amongst them they hybridise so as to defy recognition by deserip- 
tion. Each of the following varieties may have its small and great form with nar- 
rower or broader, entire and serrated, mealy and green leaves, many or few sessile or 
pedicelled flowers, more or less deeply-cut calyx, mealy on the outer only, or inner 
only, or on both surfaces, and a longer or shorter corolla-tube,with very variously formed 
lobes. The habit of the forms may be seen to depend on dryness or wetness of soil, 
or the length of herbage amongst which the plant grows, and elevation on the moun- 
tains, and many of the forms are no doubt constant and reproduced with much eon- 
stancy by seed. 
Var. 1. Stuartii proper; leaves 5-10 in. narrowly oblanceolate or short and 
spathulate acute elosely sharply toothed rarely entire yellow-mealy beneath, inflor- 
escenee more mealy, ealyx-teeth linear or lanceolate acute or obtuse, corolla-lobes 
orbieular and emarginate or broadly obeordate entire or toothed. P. Stuartii, Wall, 
Le: Tent. Fl. Nep. t. 34; Cat. 606 in part; Don Prodr. 80; Duby i» DC. Prodr. 
viii. 41; Bot. Mag. t. 4356.— From Sikkim to Kashmir and Tibet 
Van. 2. purpurea; leaves as in var. 1 but seldom toothed and oftener broader 
white- or yellow-mealy beneath, flowers sometimes in two whorls, calyx as in 
var. 1 but sometimes nearly an inch long linear-oblong and round at the tip, 
corolla pale or deep purple, lobes obeordate or 2-fid entire, capsule sometimes 1 in. 
P. purpurea, Royle Til. 311, t. 77, f£. 2; Duby l.c. 40; Wall. Cut. 606 (the Kumaon 
specimens). P. macrophylla, Don Prodr. 80. P. Jeschkiana, Kerner in Bericht des 
Naturwiss. Medicin. Vereins Innsbruck, Jahrg. i. Heft 9, 97. 
: Var. 3. Moorcroftiana; not or very slightly mealy, leaves 2-4 in. oblanceolate 
acute usually quite entire, seape shorter fewer-flowered, ealyx-lobes narrow acuminate, 
corolla as in var. 1 purple. P. Moorcroftiana, Wall. Cut. 4988.— Western Tibet. 
Wallich’s specimens are miserable, but no doubt referable to the common Western 
Tibetan form described above ; the flowers are sessile in his specimens, as they often 
are in high alpine forms, Strachey and Winterbottom's P. Moorcroftiana, from 16,800 
ft. on the Niti Pass, Kumaon, is very dwarf, with leaves white-mealy beneath and 
sessile flowers. 
