498 LXXXVII. PRIMULACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Androsace. 
stout; bracts linear-oblong; pedicels short, stout. Calyx broadly turbinate, lobes 
erect in fruit. Capsule 1—2-seeded. Seeds large, oblong, plano-convex. 
7. A. microphylla, Hook. f.; densely tufted, stolons 0 or obscure, 
leaves minute densely imbricate on the short crowded branches sessile obovate 
concave incurved cartilaginous ciliate, scapes very short and small, umbels 
glandular-pubescent, calyx cleft to the middle, lobes obtuse, corolla-lobes obo- 
vate tips rounded mouth annulate. A. globifera, Klatt in Linnea, xxxii. 202 
(not off. Duby). A. villosa, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T., not of Linn. 
KasuMiR; inner ranges; Brazil and Tilail, alt. 12-13,000 ft., Thomson, Clarke. 
Western Ter, Falconer. 
Stems 1-6 in., sometimes rigid, with subremote rosettes. Leaves ZA in., obtuse 
or mucronate or cuspidate. Scapes 4-1 in., 3-6-fld. Flowers and seeds as in 
A, sempervivoides, but ring at mouth of corolla not produced. Seeds 2, oblong, 
angular. 
tt Leaves large or small, pubescent villous or silky. 
8. A. sarmentosa, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Wall. § Carey, ii. 14 ; 
Pl. As. Rar. iii. t. 900 ; Cat. 614, and 615 in part ; pubescent villous or silky, 
stolons leafless except at the nodes, leaves sessile or petioled elliptic-lanceolate 
or oblanceolate subacute, bracts various entire silky, umbels lax or dense, calyx 
cleft half-way, lobes obtuse, corolla-throat obscurely annulate. Duby in DC. 
Prodr. viii. 49 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6210. 
TEMPERATE and SUB-ALPINE HIMALAYA, from Sikkim to Kashmir. 
A very variable plant. in size, habit, clothing, length, and shape of invol. leaves, 
and number, length, and stoutness of pedicels.— Calyx hemispheric. Corolla twice as 
broad, pale rose-purple with a yellowish eye, lobes broadly obovate, tips rounded ; 
throat with a raised ring. Capsule broadly oblong, valves entire. Seeds few or 
many, oblong or subglobose, granulate. The following varieties have no precise 
limits. 
Var. 1. Watkinsi; laxly hairy or silky, scapes and stolons stout, leaves 4-1 in., 
lanceolate or oblanceolate subsessile or sessile, pedicels 4-1} in. much longer than 
the invol. braets.— Nipal. 
Var. 2. grandifolia ; pubescent or laxly hairy, stolons 0, scape stout, leaves very 
large sometimes 1 in. diam. elliptic or lanceolate narrowed into the long or short 
petiole, bracts very small. A. foliosa, Klatt in Linnea xxxii. 293, not of Duby.— 
Sikkim, at Tungu, alt. 18-14,000 ft., J. D. H. 
Van. 3. primuloides ; silkily villous, leaves as in var. 1 but often narrowed into a 
pe and stolons (often absent) and scapes more slender. A. primuloides, Duby 
. c. 80; Mem. Prim. t. 3, f. 3.—Kumaon, alt. 12,000 tt., Edgeworth, Kashmir, 
Zanskar, and Lahul, al. 8-10,000 ft. 
Van. 4. foliosa ; leaves long petioled elliptic 1 in. diam., stolons 0 ?, scape slender, 
bracts small linear. A. foliosa, Duby in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 142, t. 146; DO. l.c. 
49; Danehal, Jacequemont. 
9. A. lanuginosa, Wall. n Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Wall. § Carey, ii. 15; 
Cat. n. 615 and 614 tn part; pubescent or silkily villous, stolon-like branches 
long leafy throughout and with scattered rosettes, leaves lanceolate acute or 
acuminate, scape solitary, invol. bracts various entire silky, umbels lax or dense, 
calyx cleft half-way, lobes obtuse, corolla-throat obscurely annulate. Bot. Mag. 
t. 4005. 
Western Himaraya; alt. 7-10,000 ft., from Kumaon to Kashmir. 
Very similar in calyx and corolla to A. sarmentosa, and as variable in stature and 
clothing, but in habit entirely different, the ascending branches 1-10 in. long only 
resemble stolons, and never root, the leaves are smaller, always sessile and much more 
densely silky in the ordinary state of the plant, the flowers are smaller. Capsule 4-6- 
