Tas. 8791. 
PRIMULA CHASMOPHILA. 
Bhutan. 
PRIMULACEAE. Tribe PrrimuLear. 
Primvua, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 631. 
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Primula (§ Soldanelloides) chasmophila, Balf. f.; affinis P. spicatae, Franch., 
et P. Wattit, King; ab illa foliis basi abrupte et brevissime cuneatis longe 
petiolatis, ab hac foliis multo minoribus, ab ambalus inflorescentiis 3-floris 
differt. 
Herba usque ad 8 cm. alta. Folia radicalia, petiolata, leviter bullata, oblongo- - 
lanceolata, basi brevissime cuneata, 2°5-3 cm. longa, 1°2-1°5 em. lata, 
pinnatilobulata, chartacea, viridia, lobulis late ovatis 1-2-dentatis circiter 
2°5 mm. longis, utrinque praecipue infra in nervis puberula; costa infra 
valde prominens, purpurascens, puberula ; nervi laterales circiter 7, infra 
prominentes; petioli 1-5-2 em. longi, purpurei, puberuli. Flores in 
capitulum reflexi, sessiles, saepe 3-nati; pedunculi 6-7 em. longi, 2 mm. 
crassi, minute puberuli; bracteae calycinae, inaequales, plus minusve 
ovatae, usque ad 4 mm. longae. Calyx campanulatus, 6 mm. longus, ad 
medium irregulariter 5-lobus lobis interdum apice 2~4-dentatis, extra 
minutissime puberulus, viridis et saepe purpureus. Corolla intense 
violacea, odorata; tubus infundibuliformis, 1-5 com. longus, extra 
puberulus; limbus 2 cm, expansus, profunde 5-lobus, lobis conspicue 
emarginatis emucronatis. Antherae 1°5 mm. longae, infra tubi medium 
insertae. Ovariwm subglobosum; stylus gracilis, stigmate capitato- 
discoideo coronatus.—J, Hurcuinson. 
The material on which our figure of the pleasing 
Primula now described has been based was received 
from Sir F. W. Moore, by whom it had been grown at 
the Royal Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, under the name 
P. chasmophila, Balf. f., in April, 1918. It is a native of 
Bhutan, where it was obtained by Mr. Cooper when 
collecting on behalf of Mr. A. K. Bulley, Neston, 
Cheshire, through whom the plant figured had reached 
Glasnevin. Professor Balfour, to whom the plant owes 
its name, has kindly informed us that Mr. Cooper’s 
original material was all in fruit, and that although the 
plant flowered in the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 
in 1917 the blossoms were mostly so imperfect as to 
render it desirable to defer the preparation of a full 
JaNuARY-Manrcu, 1919, 
