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PRIMULA sytvico.a. 
Yunnan, 
PRIMULACEAE. Tribe PRIMULEAE. 
Primuta, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 631, 
Primula sylvicola, Hort. ex Hutchinson; species P. sino-molli, Balf. f. et 
Forr., affinis sed petiolis pilosis (nec villosis) lamina folioram oblongo- 
elliptica crenato-lobata, corollae tubo e calycis tubo vix exserto differt. 
Herba rhizomate carnoso. Folia patentia vel dependentia, longa petiolata, 
oblongo-elliptica, apice rotundata, basi cordata, 9-14 cm. longa, 6-8 cm. 
lata, grosse crenata, crenis minute crenulatis, tenuiter chartacea, supra 
atro-viridia, minute setulosa, infra flavido-viridia et plerumque in nervis et 
venis crispato-puberula; nervi laterales utrinsecus circiter 8, basales 
leviter recurvati, a costa sub angulo 45° abeuntes, infra prominentes, venis 
laxe reticulatis; petioli usque ad 15 cm. longi, rubro-purpurei, crispato- 
pilosi. Flores in verticillorum racemos dispositi; pedunculus communis 
rubescens, pilosus ; verticillastra circiter 6-flora ; pedicelli usque ad 3 cm. 
longi, pilosi; bracteae subulato-lanceolatae, 7-8 mm, longae. Calyx 
turbinato-campanulatus, extra pilosus; tubus 8 mm. longus; lobi lanceo- 
lati, acuti, 3 mm. longi. Corolla rotata, roseo-purpurea; tubus late 
cylindricus, 5 mm. longus, glaber; lobi 5, patentes vel leviter recurvati, 
late orbiculari-obovati, apice late emarginati, circiter 5 mm. longi et lati. 
Antherae ad tubi medium insertae, oblongo-ovoideae, 1°25 mm. longae. 
Stylus 6 mm. longus, gracilis ; stigma depresso-capitatum.—J. Hurcuinson. 
The handsome Primula here described is very closely 
allied to P. sino-mollis, Balf. f. & Forr. From a series 
of specimens of that species communicated to Kew by 
Professor Bayley Balfour it differs most markedly in its 
much shorter corolla-tube which scarcely protrudes 
beyond the tips of the calyx-lobes. According to a letter » 
from Professor Balfour, P. sylvicola, as the name implies, 
grows in woods, whilst P. sino-mollis favours pastures. 
P, sylvicola was collected by Mr. G. Forrest in Western 
China, and seed sent by him was first raised by 
Messrs. Wallace and Company, Colchester, from whose 
establishment the plant now figured was obtained by 
Kew in 1916 under the name here published. This plant 
flowered in a greenhouse in March, 1917, and ripened seed 
APRIL-JUNE, 1918, 
