TAB. 8586. 
PRIMULA vITTATA. 
Szechuan. 
PRIMULACEAE. Tribe PRIMULEAE. 
Priuvta, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 681. 
Primula vittata, Bur. et Franch. in Journ. de Bot. vol. v. p.96; Pax et Knuth 
in Engl. Pflanzenr.-Prim. p. 118; Gard. Chron. 1905, vol. xxxvii. p. 390, 
fig. 165 et 1906, vol. xl. p. 209, fig. 87; Jardin, 1908, p. 184, fig. 100; Balf. 
f. in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc, vol. xxxix. p. 159, fig. 63: species P. secundi- 
jflorae, Franch., peraffinis, foliis angustioribus longioribus distinguenda. 
Herba perennis. Folia oblanceolata vel latius oblanceolata. basi in petiolum 
attenuata, apice acuta vel obtusiuscula, usque ad 15 cm. longa et 3 cm. 
lata, pagina utraque glabra, farinae sulphureae granulis inferiore sparse 
superiore parcissime instructa, utrinque viridia, nervis lateralibus utrinsecus 
‘circiter 12 supra conspicuis subtus prominentibus, margine irregulariter 
argutius dentata, petiolo valido usque ad 4°5 cm. longo supra plano vel 
late canaliculato saepius rubro-suffuso suffulta. Scapus validus, 18-21 cm. 
altus, ad 5 mm. diametro, superne albo-farinosus, umbellam 6-16-floram 
gerens; involucri bracteae ad 7 mm. longae, anguste lanceolatae, virides 
nisi inferne purpureo-suffusae; pedicelli sub anthesin cernui, ad 3 cm. 
longi, sparse albo-farinosi. Calyx 7-8 mm. longus, tubo 4 mm. longo, 
-Jobis lanceolatis vel late lanceolatis acutiusculis, longitudinaliter 10-vittatus, 
vittis 5 glabris fusco-purpureis in medios lobos productis, 5 albo-farinosis 
apice bifurcis et cum loborum marginibus anguste farinosis continuis, 
intus praesertim in lobis albo-farinosus. Corollae purpureae tubus 12 mm. 
longus, apice 8 mm. diametro, limbus campanulatus, 5-lobus, lobis saepe 
inter se parum inaequalibus, obovato-oblongis apice rotundatis vel non- 
nonquam retusiusculis ad 5°5 mm. longis et 6 mm. latis. Filamenta 
0-25 mm. longa, antheris circiter 1:5 mm. longis. Ovarium subglobosum, 
2mm. altum; stigma grande, capitatum, viride.—W. G. Crar. 
The Chinese Primula here figured was first met with 
by Prince Henry of Orleans and Mr. Bonvalot during 
their Chino-Tibetan journey, and was described from 
specimens collected in Szechuan. It is a hardy perennial, 
agreeing in habit with the well-known Himalayan P. 
sikkimensis, Hook. £., figured at t. 4597 of this work, 
which is the best known member of a section or group 
of seven species, all of which are yellow-flowered except 
the present species, P. vittata, and another very closely 
allied one, P. secundiflora, Franch., in which the flowers 
are purple. According to Professor Bayley Balfour, who 
has made a close study of this group of species, P. vittata 
a and P. secundiflora are so like each other that they may 
easily be confused. As a rule they admit of ready 
separation because in P. vittata the leaves are erect and 
elongated, whereas in P. secundiflora they are horizontal 
Novemser, 1914. ; 
