collected again at the rather higher altitude of 11,000 
feet, by Mr. G. Forrest, on dry rocky slopes and ledges 
of cliffs in side valleys on the eastern flank of the Tali 
range. In August of the same year Forrest had 
gathered a smaller plant in the same neighbourhood. 
This the collector described as P. delicata, but it is now 
known that P. delicata, Forrest, is only a diminutive 
form of P. spicata. A decade later, seeds of P. spicata 
were collected on the Tali range by Mr. Forrest, and 
from these plants were raised by Messrs. Wallace, of 
Colchester. Our figure has been prepared from one of 
these plants which was presented to the Kew collection 
by Messrs. Wallace. There is no difficulty in rearing 
and growing this Primula from seed. Like so many 
other species from China and the Himalaya, P. spicata 
proves strictly biennial, and dies after flowering. Un- 
fortunately at Kew it failed to produce seeds. 
Description.—Herb, monocarpic, up to 6 in. in height. Leaves all radical, 
petioled, oblong- or obovate-elliptic, gradually narrowed at the base into a 
petiole up to 1 in. long, blade 3-14 in. long, 4-3 in. wide, doubly serrate-crenate, 
thinly papery, shortly crisped-pubescent on both surfaces; midrib somewhat 
prominent beneath, with spreading hairs, lateral nerves about 5 along each 
side, rather raised and forked towards the edge. Flowers shortly spicate, 
spreading or somewhat reflexed, loose, 4-8 together ; peduncle slender, nearly 
6 in. long, whitish-mealy towards the top; bracts oblong, about 3} in. long. 
Calyx wide-campanulate, 1 in. long, irregularly 5-lobed almost to the middle, 
the lobes entire or 2-fid, finely mealy externally. Corolla blue; tube 
cylindric below, widened upwards, 4-} in. long, finely puberulous outside ; 
limb # in. across, deeply 5-lobed, lobes 2-lobulate and mucronate. Anthers 35 
ah long, inserted at the top of the cylindric portion of the tube. Ovary nearly 
pia style about as long as the ovary, crowned by the capitate 2-lobulate 
Tan. 8821.—Fig. 1, upper part of leaf; 2, calyx and pistil; 3, corolla in 
section, showing the staminal insertion; 4, pistil :—all enlarged. 
