Tas. 8468. 
PRIMULA JULIAkz. 
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Transcaucasia. 
PRIMULACEAE. Tribe PRIMULEAE. 
Primvuna, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 681. 
Primula Juliae, Kusnezow in Act. Hort. Jurjev. vol. i. p. 67 e¢ Fl. Caue. crit. 
vol. iv. p. 75; Pax et Knuth in Engler Pflunzenr, Prim. p. 56; Irving in 
Gard. Chron. 1912, vol. li. p. 298, cum ic.; a P. acaule, Linn., foliis 
reniformi-orbicularibus basi cordatis longe petiolatis, corollae cvlore 
diverso tubo calycem tere duplo superante recedit. 
Herba perennis. Folia reniformi-orbicularia, basi cordata, margine grosse 
crenata, plerumque circiter 3 cm. diametro, nervis lateralibus utrinque 5 
supra immersis subtus prominentibus, pagina utraque glabra, petiolo ad 
7 cm. longo subalato inferne gradatim incrassato rubro-lineolato glabro 
adjecto. Scapus deficiens; pedicelli numerosi, folia subaequantes, ut 
-petioli rubro-lineolati, glabri. Ca/yx anguste tubulosus, angulatus, 1 cm, 
longus, vix ad medium lobatus; lobi angusti, lanceolati, acutiuscule 
acuminati, ciliolati. Corollae tubus ad 1:7 cm, longus, limbus ad 3 cm. 
diametro fauce su!fureo, lobis obcordatis ad 1 em. latis saepissime 
irregulariter pauci-dentatis, Antherae apiculatae, 1°5 mm. longae. 
Ovarium 2 mm. altum; stylus ante anthesin exsertus, stigmate capitato.— 
W. G. CRrais. 
The pleasing Primula which forms the subject of our 
illustration is a Transcaucasian species for the imtroduction 
of which horticulture is indebted to Professor Kusnezow, 
Director of the Botanic Garden at Dorpat, by whom it was 
sent from Dorpat to various institutions in this country, 
including the Botanic Garden at Oxford and the Royal 
Botanic Gardens at Kew. ‘he plants at Oxford proved 
hardy, planted out in a sheltered border, during the winter 
of 1911-12, and flowered freely in April,1912. The plants 
at Kew, which were received from Dorpat early in the 
spring of 1912, flowered at the same time as those at 
Oxford. From one of these Kew specimens was obtained 
the material from which our figure was drawn. This figure 
shows a deviation in one respect from the plant on which 
Professor _Kusnezow based his original description, for he 
has described the flower-stalks as being twice to thrice as 
long as the leaves, whereas in the plants grown in this 
country the flower-stalks have been hardly, if at all, longer 
than the leaves. In describing the species Mr, Craib has 
DecemBen, 1912, 
