Dr Graham's Liist of Rare Plants. lji|»' 



Primula sibirica. 



P. sibirka^ glaberrima ; foliis oblongis quibusdam subrotundis, mera- 

 branaceis, subrugosis, obsolete denticulatis vel integerrirais, longe pe- 

 tiolatis ; scapo erecto, stricto, gracili ; umbella naucidora ; involucre 

 subtriphjllo, foliolis calcaratis, vaginantibus ; pedunculis laxis, demum 

 strictis et iniequaliter elongatis. 



Primula sibirica, Jacq. Misc. Austr. i. 401. — WUld. Spec. Plant, i 806.— 



lioem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. iv. 143. — Pers. i. 170 Spreng. Syst. Veg. 



i. 576 Ledcbour, FL Altaic, i. 213. 



Primula rotundifblia, Pall. It. 3.223. 



Primula intermedia, Ledebour. Mem. de TAcad. des Sciences de St Peters. 

 V. 519. (van minor.) 



Primula foliis ovatis, glabris, integerrimis ; umbellis paucifloris nutanti- 

 bus — Gmel. Fl. Sib. iv. 83. t. 46. f. 1 



Description — Whole plant perfectly glabrous. Leaves all radical, oblong, 

 or some of the smaller ones subrotund, membranaceous, flaccid, flat, or 

 concave at the base, of light lively green, entire in the margin or ob- 

 scurely toothed, veined and slightly rugose ; middle rib very strong, and 

 forming a prominent keel behind ; petioles longer than the leaves and 

 slender. Scape (in our cultivated plants 8 inches to 1 foot high, in na- 

 tive specimens, according to Ledebour, from 3 inches elongating to 

 nearly 1 foot), erect, straight, slender, shining. Involucrum generally of 

 3 or 4 leafets, but varying with the number of peduncles in the umbel, 

 erect, adpressed, herbaceous, blunt or somewhat pointed, having at the 

 base a colourless slightly spreading spur. Peduncles generally 3 or 4, 

 slender, at first lax and somewhat nodding, afterwards straight, erect, 

 parallel^ and very unequally elongated (from half an inch to 2 inches). 

 Calyx oblong, with five connivent short nearly blunt teeth, herbaceous, 

 furrowed between the lobes, in appearance very nearly resembling the 

 involucre, but herbaceous and gibbous, not toothed, at the base. Corolla^ 

 tube nearly twice as long as the calyx, yellowish, slightly angled, di- 

 lated at the apex ; limb (8 lines across) oblique, 5-partea ; segments ob- 

 cordate, two-thirds of the length of the tube, reddish lilac, pafer behind ; 

 throat yellow. Stamens sessile in the dilated apex of the tube, oblong, 

 yellow. Germen ovate, glabrous, green. Style straight (shorter than the 

 tube of the corolla in the specimen examined), reddish. Stigma globular, 

 light green. 



This species, native of marshes among the Altai mountains, about the mid- 

 dle of the range, was received at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 

 1832, from Mr G oldie of Ayr, and several specimens flowered in the cold 

 frame and greenhouse in March and April 1836. 



Pultnaea cordate. 



P. cordata ; capitulis terminalibus ; foliis cordato-ovatis, acutis, mucrone 

 pungenli, subcamosis, concavis, utrinque glabris, stipulis scariosis. 

 Description — Shrub erect, branches erect, red, villous, when very young 

 green. Leaves crowded, petiolate, spreading, cordato-ovate, acute, ter- 

 minated by a pungent bristle; veinless, somewhat fleshy, concave, gla- 

 brous on both sides, shining below, of very dark green. Pet'oles red, 

 fleshy, adpressed, tumid at the base. Stipules erect, acute, adpressed, 

 nearly twice as long as the petioles, within which they cohere, membra- 

 nous. Bractea 2 at the base of the calyx, ovato-lanceolate, keeled, ad- 

 {)ressed, free, as long as the calyx-tube. Calyx red, villous, teeth of the 

 ower lip spreading and somewhat reflected, equal. Flowers capitate 

 ftt the extremity of the branches, 2-5 in the capitula, perfumed, but not 

 pleasantly ; standard, rotundato-kidney-shaped, slightly notched, orange- 

 coloured, with a few red streaks and spots near the claw ; alae spathulato- 

 oblong, of the same colour and nearly as long as the standard, in contact 

 by their upper edges, tooth short, claw linear, nearly half the length of 



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