TAB Siii 
PRIMULA SINOPURPUREA. 
Yunnan, 
PRIMULACEAE, Tribe PRIMULEAE. 
Priuta, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 631, 
Primula sinopurpurea, Balf. f. in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. Lond. vol. xxxix. 
pp. 187, 160, nomen (1913); Irving in Gard. Chron. 1917, vol. lxii. p. 241, 
fig. 92; species P. nivali, Pall., affinis sed foliis repando-denticulatis 
farinosis differt. 
Herba robusta, saepius circiter 1 dm. alta sed interdum robustior et usque ad 
4 dm. alta. Folia rosulata, suberecta vel patula, oblanceolata, acuta vel 
subacuta, basi in petiolum alatum longe attenuata, usque ad 20 cm. longa 
et 4 cm. lata, tenuiter chartacea vel fere membranacea, repando-denti- 
culata, supra glabra, infra flavo-farinosa ; nervi laterales adscendentes, 
utrinsecus circiter 8, valde ramosi, utrinque prominuli; petioli lati, usque 
adem. longi. Scapus usque ad 4 dm. altus, robustus, superne farinosus ; 
flores circiter 6 in umbellam terminalem dispositi ; bracteae ovato-lanceo- 
latae, acuminatae, subacutae, 5-8 mm. longae, 1~1°75 mm. latae, farinosae ; 
pedicelli leviter nutantes, 1-2 cm. longi, dense flavo-farinosi. Calyx 
anguste tubuloso-campanulatus, extra parce intus dense farinosus ; tubus 
4 mm. longus; lobi 5, oblongi, obtusi, 3°5 mm. longi, 1 mm. lati. Corolla 
saturate violacea ; tubus cylindricus, superne ampliatus, 1-1°2 cm. longus, 
striatus, extra basin versus leviter farinosus, in limbum patulum 5-lobum 
circiter 8°5 cm. diametro expansus ; lobi late elliptici vel suborbiculares, 
circiter 1°8.cm. longi. Antherae circiter in tubi medium insertae, oblongae, 
2°5 mm. longae. Stylus 7 mm. longus; stigma subglobosum. Fructus 
cylindricus, 2 em. longus, medio 6 mm. diametro.—Primula nivalis, var. 
purpurea, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. vol. xxxv. p. 429 (1888). 
P. nivalis, Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xxvi. p. 40 (1889) ; 
non Pall. P. nivalis, var. sinensis, Pax et Knuth in Engl. Pflanzenr.— 
Primulaceae, p. 104.—J. HurcHinson. 
The example of Primula sinopurpurea which is here 
figured was raised at Kew from seed collected by Mr. G. 
Forrest in Yunnan and presented by Mr. J. C. Williams, 
Caerhays Castle, in 1915. It is closely allied to the rather 
widely distributed P. nivalis, Pall., figured at t. 1161 of 
this work, but differs from that plant in its more remotely 
repand-denticulateleaves, which are conspicuously farinose 
onthe underside. In his memorable discourse on Chinese 
Primulas, addressed to the members of the Primula 
, Ocroper-DEcEMBER, 1918. 
