Tas. 8836. . 
PRIMULA pvutvinata. 
Yunnan. 
Primutaceak. Tribe Prrmvuerar. 
Primuta, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p- 631, 
Primula pulvinata, Balf. f. et Ward in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 
vol. ix. p. 193 (1916); aftinis P. pseudobracteatae, Petitm., sed efarinosa, 
haud scabrida ; insuper pedunculis 2-3-floris differt. 
Herba parva, pulvinata, efarinosa, glandulis viscidis longe stipitatis molliter 
vestita. olia longe petiolata, lanceolata, apice obtusa, basi in petiolum 
alatum longe attenuata, usque ad 6 em. longa, 1:3 em. lata, crenato- 
undulata, chartacea, supra subbullato-nervosa, glanduloso-puberula, infra 
pilosa, nervis lateralibus utrinsecus circiter 6 prominulis, petioli circiter 
2 cm. longi, 3 mm. lati, uninervii, basin versus straminei et subtranslu- 
centes. Pedunculi ad 1:5 cm. longi, 2-3-flori, dense glanduloso-puberuli ; 
bracteae lanceolatae, acutae, circiter 1 cm. longae ; pedicelli graciles, 
bracteas aequantes. Flores aurei, inter folia immersi. Calyx usque ad 
1 cm. longus, ultra medium 5-lobus, extra stipitato-glandulosus, lobis 
lanceolatis obtusis. Corollae tubus 1:2 em. longus, cylindricus, supra 
stamina ampliatus, extra glanduloso-puberulus, intus prominenter trans- 
verse rugosus, apice leviter constrictus; lobi 5, obcordati, circiter 1 em. 
longi, apice profunde emarginati. Antherae ad os corollae tubi insertae, 
2mm. longae. Ovarium viride, depresso-globosum ; stylus brevis, stig- 
mate globoso coronatus.—J. Hurcurnson, 
The Primula here figured is a native of North-west 
Yunnan where it was first discovered by Mr. F. Kingdon 
Ward in June, 1913, on precipices above a glacier two 
days’ journey to the west of Atuntsu, at an altitude of 
11,000 feet above the sea. Mr. Ward notes that the 
species, which has been described by Professor Bayley 
Balfour and himself as P. pulvinata, occurs naturally in 
large tufts, and Professor Balfour speaks of it in culti- 
vation in the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, as a 
dainty cushion-plant. The figure now published has 
been prepared from a living plant kindly forwarded for 
the purpose by Professor Balfour. It was raised in the 
Edinburgh garden from the seeds supplied by Messrs. 
Bees, Limited, to whom they had been communicated 
from Yunnan by Mr. Ward. At Edinburgh where the 
_ January-Marcu, 1920, 
