Tab. 8653. 

 ANDROSACE coccinea. 

 South-western China. 



Primulaceae. Tribe Primuleae. 



Androsace, Linn.; Benth. ct Hook./. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 032. 



Androsace coccinea, Franch. ex Pax d- Knuth in Engl. Pflanzcnr.-Primnl<ir-. 

 vol. iv. pars 237 (1905), p. 185-sub A. Aizoon var. ; Irving in Gard. Chron. 

 1915, vol. lviii. p. 44 ; species ab A. Aizoon, Duby, altitudine minora 

 inflorescentia tantum pilosa nee glandulosa foliis pilis longioribus densiori- 

 busque ciliatis scapis distincte pilosis differt. 



Herba biennis, gracilis, radice crassa lignosa verticali multicipite. Folia 

 numerosa, dense rosulata, spathulata, apice obtusa, brevissime mucronu- 

 lata, basi valde attenuata, 2 "5-3 "5 cm. longa, 4-7 mm. lata, marginibus 

 anguste translucentia vel leviter cartilaginea, valde ciliata, glauca, coriacea. 

 glabra vel supra pilis paucis instructa, sessilia. Scapi 1-0, erecti vel 

 leviter adscendentes, 5-12 cm. alti, teretes, pilosi, singuli umbellam 5-20- 

 floram gerentes ; bracteaelanceolatae, acutae, 4-9 mm. longae, pubescentes 

 vel breviter pilosae; pedicelli plus minusve inaequales, 0-8-2*2 cm. longi, 

 teretes, pilosi. Calyx turbinatus vel paullo campanulatus, fere ad medium 

 fissus, pilosus ; lobi ovato-lanceolati, obtusi vel subacuti, latiuscule scariose 

 albo-marginati. Corolla hypocrateriformis tubo calycem aequante fauce 

 plus minusve prominenter annulato ; lobi obovati, obtusi, 4-5 mm. longi. 

 3-4 mm. lati, patentes, integri vel minutissime crenati, glabri, rubri vel 

 intense coccinei. Antherae oblongae, fere sessiles. Ovarium obovoideum, 

 basi annulo squamarum indurato circumdatum; stylus brevis, 1 mm. 

 longus; stigma leviter capitatum vel truncatum. Capsulae valvae 

 plerumque 5 ; semina oblonga, subplana. — A. coccinea, Franch. in Bull. 

 Soo. Bot. Fr. vol. xxxiii. (1886) p. 63 (nomen nudum). A. Aizoon, Duby, 

 var. coccinea, Franch. in Morot, Journ. de Bot. vol ix. (1895) p. 450. 

 A. Bulleyana, Forrest in Not. Roy. Bot. Gard. Edin. vol. iv. (1908) p. 233, 

 t. xliii A ; Gard. Chron. I.e. p. 44, fig. 13. Primula Aizoon, var. coccinea. 

 Derganc in Kneucker, Allg. Bot. Zeitschr. vol. x. (1904) p. 110. — 

 M. B. Scott. 



The interesting Androsace which forms the subject of 

 our plate is a native of Yunnan where it was first 

 discovered by the late Abbe Delavay prior to 1885, and 

 whence it was first introduced into European horticulture, 

 when its flowering was recorded in the Jardin des Plantes 

 in 1891. It was met again in eastern Tibet by the Abbt- 

 Soulie in 1893, and was rediscovered by Mr. G. Forrest 

 in north-western Yunnan in September, 1906, at an 

 altitude of 10,000 feet, on dry rocky hillsides in the 

 descent from the Chung-tien plateau to the Yang-tse 

 valley near Tang Tui. The name A. coccinea, by which 



March, 1916. 



