Tas. 8608. 
PRIMULA MIyvABEANA., 
Formosa. 
PRIMULACEAE, Tribe PRIMULEAE. 
Priva, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 631. 
Primula (§ Candelabra)|\Miyabeana, Ito et Kawakami in Miyabe Festschrift, 
p. 1, t. xxix., a P. Poissoni, Franch., ejusque affinioribus calyce intus 
sulphureo-farinoso facile distinguenda. 
Herba, an biennis, Folia oblongo-obovata vel late oblanceolata, apice 
juventute acuta, mox obtusa vel rotundata, basin versus paulo angustata, 
usque ad 20 cm. longa, plerumque 8-5 cm. lata, papyracea vel papyraceo- 
coriacea, pagina utraque glabra, superiore efarinosa, inferiore primo pallide 
farinosa, mox parcissime sulphureo-farinosa, deinde omnino efarinosa, 
nervis lateralibus utrinsecus circiter 10 inferioribus satis obliquis omnibus 
supra conspicuis subtus prominentibus, nervis transversis sparsis supra 
vix conspicuis subtus subprominulis, parte triente inferiore excepta irregu- 
lariter denticulata, primo parcius ciliolata, mox glabra. Scapus solitarius, 
folia multoties superans, ad 60 cm, altus, umbellas superpositas plerumque 
6-10-floras gerens, apicem versus primo perparce farinosus, mox omnino 
efarinosus; bracteae ad 2 em. longae; pedicelli usque ad 4 cm. longi, 
primo parcissime farinosi, mox efarinosi. Calyx sub anthesi 6 mm. 
longus, intus farinosus, lobis deltoideis vel anguste deltoideis acutiusculis 
tubo dimidio brevioribus nunc integris nunc denticulatis. Corollae 
purpureae tubus 14 mm. longus, ore annulatus ; lobi obcordati, paulo ultra 
5 mm. longi. Filamenta basi ampliata, antheris brevibus. Fructus in 
calyce purpurascente conspicue 5-costato lobis persistentibus erectis haud 
rarius foliaceis inclusus, ambitu oblongus vel globoso-oblongus, stylo 
persistente ; semina parva, fusco-brunnea, papillosa.—P. japonica, A. Gray, 
var. Miyabeana, Ito in Encycl. Jap. vol. iv. p. 778. Primula sp., Kawa- 
kami, List Pl. Formos. p. 66. ? Primula sp., Hayata, Fl. Mont. Formos. 
p. 157.—W. G, Cras. 
The section Candelabra, which owes its name to the 
type of inflorescence, is one of the most natural in the 
genus Primula. Its members are natives of eastern and 
south-eastern Asia; all of them appear to inhabit moist 
meadows, all produce rosettes of leaves which recall 
those of the Primrose, and all produce tall scapes with 
superposed tiers of flowers. All further agree in having 
a rounded or shortly oblong capsule enclosed in a slightly 
accrescent calyx. Within the section the species assort 
themselves in two groups, that in which the flowers are 
Appin, 1915. 
