TAB. 8752. 
PRIMULA ANISODORA. 
Yunnan. 
PRIMULACEAE. Tribe PRIMULEAE.' 
Prmuns, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 681. 
Primula (§ Candelabra) anisodora, Balf. f. et Forr. in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. 
Edinb. vol. ix. p. 147 (1916) ; species P. glycosmate, Petitm., affinis foliis 
brevioribus, bracteis longioribus, corolla atro-purpurea, lobis brevibus sub- 
quadrangularibus differt. 
Herba efarinosa, usque ad 1 m. alta. Folia oblongo-oblanceolata, apice 
rotundata, apiculata, basi in petiolum late alatum sensim attenuata, 
15-20 cm. longa, 5-7 cm. lata, chartacea, crebre et acute repando-denti- 
culata, laete viridia, supra glabra, infra plus minusve glanduloso-foveolata ; 
nervi laterales utrinsecus circiter 10, a costa sub angulo 45° abeuntes, 
utrinque distincti; costa pallidiora, in petiolo rubro-venoso complanata. 
Flores in umbellam terminalem interruptam dispositi; pedunculus 
robustus; bracteae lineares, acutae, usque ad 1 cm. longae, glabrae ; 
pedicelli 1-1-3 cm. longi, nutantes. Calyx campanulatus; tubus 4 mm. . 
longus, ruber et viridis; lobi late ovati, apiculati, 1°75 mm. longi, circiter . 
1°5 mm. lati. Corolla extra atro-purpurea, intra lobos rubro-purpurea, ore 
flavo; tubus basi cylindricus, superne subcampanulato-expansus, circiter 
1 em. longus; lobi plerumque 5, subquadrangulares. Antherae medio 
tubo insertae, oblongae. Stylus ovario aequilongus, stigmate globoso 
coronato. Capsula subglobosa, calycem vix auctum paullo superans, stylo- 
podio nigro-rubro crenulato coronata, valvis 5 dehiscens.—J. HuTcHINnson. 
This striking Primula was discovered by Mr. G. Forrest 
in open moist pastures on the mountains of the Chungtien 
Plateau in Yunnan, at an altitude of about 11,000 feet 
above the sea, in July, 1913. He met with the species 
again in the same general locality in July, 1914. The 
flowers are of a deep purple, almost black colour, and all 
parts of the plant when fresh are strongly aromatic, the 
odour resembling that of aniseed. Owing to this circum- 
stance Professor Bayley Balfour and Mr. Forrest in 
describing the species have given it the name P. aniso- 
dora. Seeds of the 1913 introduction, presented by 
Mr. J. C. Williams of Caerhays Castle, Cornwall, in 1915, 
yielded plants which flowered in the Rock Garden at 
Kew at the end of June, 1916. It has proved quite 
Aprit-Juxg, 1918. 
