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496 . LXXXVIL PRIMULACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Androsace. 
* Scapes numerous, Leaves all radical. Stolons 0, except in A. geraniifolia. 
+ Leaves long-petioled, rounded-cordate, lobulate and crenate. 
l. A. saxifragsefolia, Bunge Enum. Pl. Chin. Bor. 53; annual, glan- 
dular-pubescent, leaves rounded-cordate crenate-toothed, blade about as long 
as the petiole, calyx deeply 5-cleft, segments elliptic-acuminate stellately 
spreading in fruit. Duby in DC. Prodr. viii. 53. A rotundifolia, Wall. Cat. 
613 ; Smith Exot. Bot. t. 113; DC. l.c. 54 (not of Hardwicke). A. patens, 
Wright in Mem. Amer, Acad, Sc. ser. 2, vi. 401. ? A. carnosula, Duby in 
DC. l.c. 54. 
GaxaETIC DA, from Calcutta to the Punjab, and ascending the Himalayas to 
4000 ft.—Disrrim, N. E. China, Japan, Loochoo Islands. 
The only annual Indian species. Leaves 4-3 in. diam. Scapes many, twice as 
long as the leaves; invol. bracts. 4 in.; pedicels }-14 in., very unequal. Calyx fruit- 
ing 1-3 in. diam. Corolla narrower or broader than the calyx. Seeds minute, sub- 
globose, deeply pitted.—A plant confused with Hardwicke's A. rotundifolia by Wallich, 
Smith and others, and with a third species by Roemer and Schultes (see Obs. in Roxb. 
Fl. Ind. ed. Wail. & Carey, ii. 14). 
2. A. rotundifolia, Hardwicke in As. Research, vi. 350; perennial, 
glandular-pubescent or villous, leaves rounded-cordate lobulate the lobules 
usually 3-crenate, blade usually shorter thun the petiole, bracts lanceolate 
or obovate crenate sessile or petioled entire or sharply toothed, calyx cleft 
to the middle, segments ovate recurved in fruit. Wall. in Roxb. FI. Ind. ed. 
Wall. & Carey, ii. 14, excl. Obs. A. incisa, Wall. l.c. 16; Cat. 616; Duby in 
DC. Prodr. viii. 54. A. parviflora, Jacquem. mss. in DC. l.c. 54; Mem. Prim. 
t. 9, f. A. elegans, Jacquem. mss. l. c. 55. 
TEMPERATE Hrmaraya, alt, 6—11,000 ft., from Kashmir to Kumaon, and in Was- 
TERN TIBET. e 
Very variable. Leaves 43-13 in. diam., petiole 1—4 in. ; lobes very shallow, some- 
times the sinus is not deeper than that of the crenatures, Scapes few or many, 1-6 
in.; invol, bracts short or long, broad or narrow, sometimes % in. long and deeply ó- 
cleft at the broad end. Calyx, fruiting 1-3 in. diam., sometimes much enlarged, 
nearly 1 in. diam. and acutely toothed or 3-fid at the tip. Corolla usually much 
larger than the calyx, but when the latter is enlarged it becomes very small and even 
minute, Capsule much smaller than the calyx. Seeds minute, rounded, granulate.— 
I cannot doubt this being Hardwicke's A. rotundifolia, found by him on “the most 
elevated mountains of Shreenugur,” and described as having toothed invol. leaves. 
Wallich referred A. saxifragefolia to Hardwicke's rotundifolia, and re-describes the 
latter as A. incisa. 
Van. 1. rotundifolia proper ; softly pubescent or villous, 3-5 in. high, lobules of 
leaf rounded entire or crenate rarely acutely toothed, corolla rarely exceeding the 
entire calyx-lobes.—Kumaon to Kashmir, alt. 3-9000 ft. 
Var. 2, macrocalyx, Watt in Journ. Linn. Soc. ined.; habit, pubescence and 
leaves of var. 1, but calyx-lobes much larger acutely toothed.— Kashmir, alt. 
5-9500 ft. 
a0 Var. 3. glandulosa; usually 5-12 in. high, glandular pubescent, petioles and 
scapes more slender, lobules of leaves rounded entire truncate or erenate rarely 
acutely toothed, corolla usually much larger than the entire calyx-lobes.—Drier 
ranges of Lahul and Kashmir; abundant in Western Tibet, alt. 7-12,000 ft.—A form 
affecting high dry regions. 
Var. 4. Strachey’, Watt l.c.; glandular-pubescent or glabrescent, 4-6 in. high, 
scapes and petioles slender, lobules of leaf entire or crenate, calyx in flower large 
campanulate, lobes quite entire much exceeding the calyx.—Garwhal, at Bampa, 
alt. 11,000 ft., Str. dt Winterb, Kunawur, alt, 811,000 ft., Munro, Thomson, Brandis, 
