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PRIMULA denticulata. 



Tooth-letted Primrose. 



PENTANDRIA MONOQYNIA. 

 Nat. ord. Primulace.e. 

 PRUIULA. Supra vol. 7, fol. 539. 



V. denticulata ; foliis obovato-lanceolatis pubescentibus rugosis inaequaliter 

 denticulatis margine reflexis, floribus dense umbellatis, limbo corollse 

 piano : lobis bilobis, calycis glabri dentibus linearibus erectis glanduloao- 

 ciliatis. 



P. denticulata. Smith Exot. Bot. 2. 109. t. 114. Romer ^ Schxdtes syst. 

 veg. 4. 151. 



*' Ornamental as are all the known Primulacese," says 

 Dr. Royle in his valuable Illustrations of the Botany of the 

 Himalayan Mountains,* " they are no where more so than on 

 the coldest and most exposed of the Himalayan peaks, and at 

 a season when returning warmth has just begun to displace 

 the season of wintry desolation." In another place he informs 

 us that the genera Primula and Androsace have a wide dis- 

 tribution, sending a few species towards the foot of the moun- 

 tains, and others towards the highest points of vegetation. 

 Thus Primula has one species, P. floribunda, at as low an 

 elevation as 5000 feet ; but at higher elevations, as in the 

 ascent to Choor in the earliest spring, and when the snow has 

 just begun to melt from the neighbourhood of stones and 

 trees, or from situations exposed to the full influence of the 

 solar rays, we find in full and luxuriant flower this Primula 

 denticulata, and another called P. petiolaris. On still loftier 

 situations, as Gossainthan, Kedurkanta, and some of the 



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