Tap. 8341. 
PRIMULA Lirronrana. 
Western China. 
Primvnaceag. Tribe PrrmwonEar. 
Primus, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 631. 
Primula Littoniana, . Forrest in Not. Roy. Bot. Gard. Edin. 1908, pars xix. 
p- 225, cum icon.; ab affini P. Viali, Delavay ex Franch., partibus omni- 
bus multo majoribus, calycis lobis tubo aequalibus, satis distincta videtur. 
Herba perennis, 30-60 cm. alta, Folia omnia radicalia, anguste oblonga, 
obtusa, inferne longissime attenuata, ad 20 cm. longa, 7 cm. lata, irregula- 
riter dentata, ciliata, utrinque pilosa, subtus praeterea in costa araneoso- 
pilosa, nervis secundariis utrinque numerosis, obliquis; petioli circiter 
9 ecm. longi. Scapi erecti, robusti, 40-60 cm. alti, folia longe superantes, 
basi glabri, supra parcissime farinosi, spicas simplices densas multifloras 
7-12 cm. longas, 2°5-3°5 em. diametro gerentes. Flores violaceo-coerulei, 
reflexi; bracteae lineares parce farinosae. Culyx late campanulatus vel 
globoso-campanulatus ; tubus 2 mm. longus; lobi coccinei, ovato-lanceolati, 
subacuti, 4 mm. longi, 2°5 mm. lati. Corollae tubus circiter 1 em. longus, 
2 mm. diametro, calycem multoties superans; limbus concavus 6-8 mm. 
diametro, lobis late lanceolatis integris apice obtusis 4 mm. longis, 2°5 mm, 
latis. Capsu/a globosa, parva, calyce inclusa.—W. G. Crats, 
The Primula here figured was collected in Yunnan by 
Mr. G. Forrest on behalf of Messrs. Bees, of Neston; the 
plant depicted was acquired from that firm in August, 1909. 
In Cheshire this species seems hardy, and plants grown in 
the open at Kew were uninjured by the frosts of the past 
winter. P. Littoniana belongs to a group of forms nearly 
allied to one sent to Paris by the late Pere Delavay under 
the name P. Viali. It is not clear what the relationship of 
the different forms in this group may be. Mr. Franchet, 
who formally described Delavay’s species, associated there- 
with a plant found in Szechuan by Pere Soulie, which 
has bilobulate corolla segments in place of the entire lobes 
that characterise the plant named by Delavay. Messrs. Pax 
and Knuth refer to P. Viali yet another Primula collected 
by Mr. Ford in China. As regards the last-mentioned plant 
it has to be remarked that, in the Kew collection, Ford has 
included under the same field number two forms; one refer- 
Octoser, 1910, 
