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traveller relates, * It is the pride of all the Alpine Primulas, inhabits wet boggy places at elevations of from 
12-17,000 feet, at Lachen and Lachong, covering acres with a yellow carpet in May and June.' ^* It is, perhaps, the 
tollest Primula in cultivation, and very different from any hitherto described. Stemless. Leaves all from the root, 
erecto-patent, 8-0 inches to a foot long (including the petiole), obovato -oblong, thin and submembranaceous, but 
strongly reticulato-venose, not farinose, obtuse, the margin doubly and sharply toothed, the thickened midrib and 
nerves prominent beneath, where the hue is paler than above ; they taper into a long broad red petiole about equal in 
length to the leaf. Scape a foot to two feet high, erect, terete, pale green, bearing an umbel of lemon-yellow (rather 
than golden) flowers, about the size of those of P, vtdgaris. Involucre of 5-7 leaflets, which are sessile, slightly farinose, 
erect, lanceolate, a little tinged with red, about half the length of the pedicels. These latter are slightly spreading. 
Calyx tinged with purple, farinose, tubular-oblong, as long as the tube of the corolla, five-lobed about half-way down, 
lobes erect, rather obtuse. Corolla with the tube as long as the calyx, the limb subcampanulate, the mouth being wide, 
not at all contracted, naked, the lobes of the limb moderately spreading, roundish, emai'ginate, A free-growing species, 
partaking of the habit of the common Primrose, and therefore more permanent under artificial cultivation than the 
fugacious Pnmula capitata from the same country. During the winter we kept the young plants under the protection 
of a frame ; and we shall not know, until next winter has passed, whether this species is sufficiently hardy to withstand, 
unprotected, the cold of our winters. — BoL Mag,, t. 4597. 
414. ricus viRGATA. Roxhurgh. A half-hardy deciduous shrub, with broad rough leaves. 
^Native of the North of India. 
(Fig. 207.) 
In general appearance this shrub resembles the common eatable fig, but it seems to form a much smaller bush. The 
young shoots, leaves, and fruit are covered with fine short hairs. The leaves are roundish-ovate, from three to four 
inches long, regulai-Iy serrated all round except at the very base, and seated on taper stalks rather less than half their 
own length ; they are slightly wrinkled on the upper side, but very much so on the lower. The figs are seated on short 
stalks, have a pear-shaped figure, and seem to be as large as the fruit of the Sorb; usually they appeal' singly, but in some 
instances two have grown from the same axil. A deciduous shrub, capable of withstanding an ordinary winter, if planted 
iuadi7 situation. It was killed to the ground by the last severe winter. It grows freely in any good garden soil. 
It has no beauty as an object of cultivation, and is only interesting as a distinct half-hardy species.— /owrn-. of Hort. 
/Sioc., vol. i. 
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