hardy in a sheltered nook, surviving the winter and 
flowering again in the summer of 1917. The material 
for our figure has been derived from a plant raised by 
Mr. Williams from seeds of the second collection by 
Mr. Forrest made in 1914. This plant flowered in the 
garden of Mr. Williams in June, 1917. P. anisodora is a 
member of the section Candelabra, and it has, according 
to its authors, a very near ally in P. glycosma, Petitm., 
also a Yunnan species. The dark flowers, perhaps the 
darkest in any Primula, with their yellow “ eye,”’ recall 
those of the Auricula, once so familiar a feature of 
English gardens in spring. Like many other species of 
Primula, P. anisodora dies after flowering freely, but 
produces an abundant supply of good seeds. 
Description.—Herb, producing a scape up to 3 ft. in height, all parts devoid 
of mealiness. Leaves oblong-oblanceolate, rounded and apiculate at the tip, 
_ gradually narrowed below into a broadly winged petiole, 6-8 in. long, 2-3 in. 
wide, chartaceous, the margin closely and sharply repand-denticulate, bright 
green and glabrous above, beneath more or less gland-dotted; lateral nerves 
about 10 along each side, diverging from the midrib at an angle of 45°, visible 
on both surfaces ; midrib rather pale in colour, within the petiole flattened and 
streaked with red. Flowers forming a terminal, interrupted umbel ; peduncle 
stout; bracts linear, acute, glabrous, up to 2 in. long; pedicels about 3 in. long, 
nodding. Calyx campanulate ; tube } in. long, red and green; lobes wide- 
ovate, apiculate, ;1, in. long, 7; in. wide. Corolla dark plum-purple outside, 
lobes red-purple within, with a yellow eye; tube cylindric below, widened and 
slightly campanulate upwards, about 2 in. long; lobes usually 5, somewhat 
quadrangular. Anthers oblong, adnate to the middle of the tube. Style as 
long as the ovary, tipped by the globose stigma. Capsule almost globose, 
slightly exceeding the hardly altered calyx, opening by means of 5 valves and 
crowned by the dark-red crenulate style-base. 
Tas. 8752.—Fig. 1, calyx; 2, corolla, laid open, showing the staminal 
insertion ; 8, pistil :—all enlarged. ae : 
