Primula. | LXXXVII. PRIMULACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 493 
Sıxkım Hmaraya ; Kankola Pass, alt. 15,000 ft., J. D. H. 
This and the following are very singular species, the corolla being larger than 
the whole rosette of leaves, and calyx quite peculiar.— Leaves few, petiole puberulous, 
equalling or exceeding the blade. Scapes 1-3, 2-6 in. Flower 1 in. diam., with 
occasionally a very imperfect apetalous one. Calyx puberulous ` segments nearly 2 in. 
long, truncate, tip entire or toothed. Corolla pale lilac, tube } in., limb $:n. long 
and broader, lobes very shallow and unequally toothed. Stamens near the bottom of 
the tube. Ovary globose. 
36. P. soldanelloides, Watt in Journ. Linn. Soc. Dot. ined.; quite 
glabrous, not mealy, leaves 1-3 in. long-petioled ovate runcinate-pinnatifid half- 
way to the midrib, scape capillary 1-fld, bract 0, flower large nodding, calyx 
cleft half-way, lobes oblong ovate or obtuse, corolla broadly funnel-shaped, 
lobes shallow coarsely toothed. 
Sixxim Hımaraya ; Kankola Pass, J. D. H: Patangla (Herb. Calcutta). 
A smaller plant than P. uniflora, quite glabrous, with a very different calyx, but 
similar corolla, which is white. Calyx-lobes entire or obscurely toothed. Ovary 
globose. 
***** Minute species (except P. petiolaris). Scape 0, or much shorter 
than the leaves (sometimes elongate in P. petiolaris). Bracts subulate, at the 
bases of the leaves or on the very short scape. (See also P. concinna and P. 
tibetica.) 
37. P. petiolaris, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey § Wall. ii. 22; 
Tent. Fl. Nep. t. 31; Cat. 603 ; glabrous or puberulous, mealy or not, leaves 2-10 
in. rugose densely rosulate membranous erose jagged toothed or crenulate of 
two forms in the same or different plants, some broadly or narrowly obovate-spa- 
thulate sessile or narrowed into edit winged petiole, others elliptic ovate 
or cordate on long slender petioles, pedicels long or short, calyx-teeth acute, 
corolla pale purple or white or pink, tube funnel-shaped above much longer 
than the calyx, mouth not annulate, limb flat, lobes rounded entire emarginate 
2-fid or sharply toothed, ovary globose, tip acute, stigma capitate, capsule globose 
sunk in the broad calyx-tube, seeds large subglobose black papillose. Duby in 
DC. Prodr. viii. 97. P. tridentata, Don Prodr. 77. P. sessilis, Royle mss. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Simla to Bhotan, alt. 4-12,000, abundant. Fl. autumn 
and winter. 
A most variable plant, The following forms pass into one another in all ways:— 
Van. 1. petiolaris proper; not mealy, leaves mostly elliptic, blade 1-3 in., petiole 
2-6 in., scape 0, corolla large, lobes broad 2-fid or many-toothed. 
Var. 2. nana; slightly mealy or not, leaves all or mostly obovate-spathulate 
sessile or shortly petioled, corolla smaller, lobes obcordate entire or toothed. P. nana, 
Wall. l.c. 23; Cat. 612; Griff. Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 485, f. 2 (Primula). 
Var. 3. Stracheyi; not mealy, leaves all obovate-spathulate erose, flowers very 
numerous, scape 0, calyx small, corolla 2 in. diam., tube long, lobes narrower obcordate 
entire.——Kumaon, at Namil, alt. 8000 ft., Sirach. § Winterb. (Prim. 12). 
Var. 4. sulphurea ; leaves 2 in. sessile obovate clothed with yellow meal beneath 
finely toothed, corolla small j in. diam., tube not twice the length of the small 
calyx, lobes entire or lacerate.— Kumaon, at Suring, alt. 4500 ft., Strach. § Winterb. 
(Prim. 10). 
Var. 5. pulverulenta; covered all but the corolla with yellow meal, leaves all 
obovate-spathulate and irregularly toothed, flowers very numerous and large, corolla 
1-1} in. broad, tube twice as long as the calyx-lobes coarsely toothed.—Kumaon, at 
Pindaree, alt. 10-12,000 ft.; Edgeworth, &c. (Strach. § Winterb, Prim. 9). 
Var. 6. Edgeworthii; buds only mealy, leaves very large 3-4 in, without the 
petiole which is often as long ovate or elliptic base truncate acute or cordate, margin 
irregularly coarsely toothed or lobulate with toothed lobules, pedicels stout, calyx 
