Tas. 8821. 
PRIMULA spicata. 
Western Yunnan. 
PrIMULACEAE. Tribe PRIMULEAE. 
Prmvta, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. Ff. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 631, 
Primula (§ Soldanelloides) spicata, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France. vol. 
xxxii. p. 269 (1885); Pax in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. x. p- 187 (1889) ; 
Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. p. 48 (1889) ; Par in 
Engl. Pflanzenr., Primulaceae, p. 70 (1905) ; Balf. f. in Journ. Roy. 
Hort. Soc. vol. xxxix. p. 153, fig. 58 (1913); Irving in Gard. Chron. 1918, 
vol. lxiv. p. 34, fig. 14; affinis P. chasmophilae, Balf. f., sed foliis in 
petiolum sensim cuneatis, pedunculo apicem versus et calyce farinoso, 
floribus spicatis coeruleis differt. 
Herba monocarpica, usque ad 15cm. alta. Folia radicalia, petiolata, oblongo- 
elliptica vel obovato-elliptica, basi in petiolum usque ad 2°5 em. longum 
sensim cuneata, 1°5-4 cm. longa, 1-2 em. lata, dupliciter serrato- 
crenata, tenuiter chartacea, utrinque breviter crispato-pubescentia ; costa 
infra prominens, viridis, patule pilosa; nervi laterales utrinsecus circiter 5, 
prominuli, marginem versus fureati. Flores breviter spicati, patuli vel 
subreflexi, laxi, 4-8-nati; pedunculi graciles, usque ad 14°5 cm. longi, 
apicem versus albido-farinosi; bracteae oblongae, circiter 3 mm. longae. 
Calyx late campanulatus, 5 mm. longus, fere ad medium irregulariter 
5-lobus, lobis integris vel 2-fidis, extra minute farinosus. Corolla 
coerulea; tubus inferne cylindricus, superne ampliatus, 1-1°3 em. longus, 
extra minute puberulus ; limbus 2 cm, expansus, profunde 5-lobus lobis 
2-lobulatis mucronatis. Antherae 1°25 mm. longae, apice tubi eylindrici 
partis insertae. Ovariwm subglobosum; stylus ovario aequilongus, 
stigmate capitato 2-lobulato coronatus.—Primula delicata, G. Forrest in 
Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinb, vol. xix. p. 222 (1908).—J. Hurcuinson. 
The pleasing Primula now figured was first collected 
by the late Abbé Delavay in June, 1884, cn Mount 
Tseng-chan, near Tali, in Western Yunnan, at about 
7000 feet elevation. A year later it was described as 
P. spicata by the late Mr. Franchet. A member of the 
section Soldanelloides, this species is distinguished within 
that group by its loosely spicate flowers; in other 
species of the section the flowers are usually capitate. 
Except in this particular P. spicata most resembles 
P. chasmophila, Balf. f., figured at t. 8791 of this work. 
During September and October, 1906, P. spicata was 
OcToBER-DECEMBER, 1919. 
