Tite ee 
Tap. 8456. 
PRIMULA Warttt. 
— 
Himalaya. 
PRIMULACEAE. Tribe PRIMULEAE. 
Primuta, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 681. 
Primula Wattii, King ex Watt in Journ. Linn, Soc. vol. xx. p. 10 cum tab. ; 
Hook. f. in Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iii. p. 672; Paw et Knuth in Engl. Pflanzenr. 
—Primulaceae, p. 66; Gard. Chron. 1912, vol. li. p. 286, t. 188; ab affini 
P. soldanelloide, Watt, calycis lobis formae diversae haud integris 
distinguenda. 
Herba nana. Folia oblonga vel oblongo-oblanceolata, apice obtusa, basi in 
petiolum angustata, 2°5 em. longa, 1°5 cm. lata, grosse crenata, mem- 
branacea, efarinosa, pagina superiore pilis longis albidis plus minusve 
instructa, inferiore costa nervisque lateralibus pilis similibus instructa, 
nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 6 cum nervis transversis supra 
impressis subtus prominentibus; petioli subalati, circiter 7 mm. longi, 
sparse longe albo-ciliati. Scapus circiter 10 cm. altus, capitulum e floribus 
numerosis pendulis constitutum gerens; bracteae parvae, lanceolatae vel 
fere rotundatae, membranaceae. Calyx majusculus, cupularis, corollae 
tubo subaequialtus, membranaceus, laxus, irregulariter lobatus, lobis 
irregulariter serratis, viridis et longitudinaliter brunneo-pictus. Corollae 
violaceae nisi fauce albo-farinosae tubus 5 mm. longus, limbus late 
campanulatus, 5-lobus, lobis fere cordatis irregulariter lobatis. Antherae 
oblongae, apiculatae, 1 mm. altae, filamentis vix 1 mm. longis. Pistil/um 
1 mm. altum, glabrum, ovario subgloboso stylo aequialto, stigmate late 
truncato-eapitato.—W. G. Cras. 
The Primula here figured was originally met with on 
the Cho-la range in Eastern Sikkim, where in_ certain 
localities it is abundant on banks and ridges, though, taken 
generally, it is rather rare. The plant from which our 
illustration has been prepared is one lent for the purpose by 
Messrs. R. Gill and Son, Falmouth. But it has also 
flowered in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, and at 
Kew, from seed presented by the Calcutta Botanic Garden 
in 1911 which had been collected by Mr. W. W. Smith in 
Sikkim during the autumn of the previous year. In this 
country it comes into flower in April or a little later; in 
the wild state, however, it does so from mid-July onwards 
into August under daily rain or heavy mist and in conditions 
hardly to be met with in Britain. Primula Watti, with 
P. Reidii, Duthie, P. soldanelloides, Watt, and P. uniflora, 
SEPTEMBER, 1912. 
