4 FRIMULACEM. [Androsace. 



1. PRIMULA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 482. 



Perennial scapigerous herbs. Flowers umbelled or whorled, rarely 

 solitary, dimorphic in regard to length of style and position of 

 stamens. Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla funnel- or salver-shaped ; throat 

 n^ked, or with folds opposite the lobes ; lobes 5, spreading or incurved. 

 Stamens 5, included. Ovary ovoid, obovoid or globo3?. Capsule 

 globose oblong or cylindrical, 5-valved ; valves simple or 2-fid. 

 Seeds angular or subglobose, peltately attached. — Species about 

 150, mostly in northern and temperate regions. 



P. floribunda, Wall. Tent, Fl. Nep. 43, t. 33 ; F. B. I. iii, 495 ; Collett 

 FL Siml. 299. 



Glandular-pubescent. Leaves 2-4 in., elliptic, acute or obtuse, narrowed 

 into a broadly-winged petiole, coarsely and irregularly toothed. 

 Scapes numerous, stout, 4-8 in. long. Flowers in whorls of 2-3 ; bracts 

 shorter than the very unequal pedicels, ovate or elliptic, acuminate, 

 toothed. C%lyx campanulate, hemispheric in fruit, cleft to the 

 middle ; lobes ovate, acute, glandular. Corolla salver-shaped, yellow ; 

 tube j-g- in., pubescent, throat dilated, mouth annulate ; limb j-| in. 

 in diam., lobe3 obcordate. Ovary rounded at the apex, stigm% globose. 

 Capsule globose. Seeds very small, black, angled, minutely papillose. 



Dehra Dun, in damp shady ravines (Wallich, T. Thomson, et?.) Flowers 

 during the cold season. Disteib. : W. Himalaya up to 8,000 feet, extend - 

 ing to Afghanistan, 



2. ANDROSACE, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 495. 



Perennial, rarely annual, low herbs. Leaves various, rosulate, 

 or imbricate on the branches. Flowirs small, white, lilas or red. 

 Calyx 5-lobed or-partite. Corolla salver-shaped with a very short 

 tube, or funnel-shaped; limb 5-lobed ; mouth annulate, or with folds 

 opposite the lobes. Stamens 5, anthers subsessile, included, obtuse. 

 Ovary globose, style short. Capsule ovoid or globose, 5-valved. 

 Seeds 2, rarely more, angular or subglobose; embryo transverse.— 

 Species about 50, chiefly in 2^. temp, and Arctic regions, or on lofty 

 mountain ranges. 



A. saxifragsefolia, Bunge Enum. PL Chin. Bor. 53; Prain Beng. PI. 



€40. 



A glandular-pubescent annual. Leaves £-f in. in diam., ovate or subor- 



bicular, cordate, crenate ; petiole equalling or longer than the blade. 



Scapes niany, twice or three times longer than the leaves; inpol- 



bracts |-£ in. long, pedicels very unequal. Calyx deeply 5 cleft ; lobes 



■ejiiptic, acuminate, enlarging and spreading in fruit, prominently 



