Pruate LXITI. 
(A, B, C, D) PRIMULA Attionn, Lois. 
Natural Order Prrmunacem. 
Gen. Cuar.—See description of Plate XI. Part I. 
. Spec. Cuan.—F lowers dimorphic, 1-2 (with sometimes an abortive 
third bud), on an extremely short peduncle. Bracts membranous, reni- 
form or very broadly ovate, wrapped round the pedicels. Calya-lobes 
rounded. Corolla-lobes emarginate. Capsules glabrous, deeply cleft 
into ovate, acute, upright lobes, nearly as long as the calyx. Leaves 
obovate or subspathulate, when fully developed narrowed into a petiole, 
slightly and irregularly toothed, densely covered with short, glandular 
pubescence, as are all parts of the plant except the corolla and the 
capsule. 
Primula Allionii, Lois, Notice, p. 38, tab. 3, Fig. 1; Woods, Tour. 
Fl. p. 302, excluding the habitat. 
Hasirat.—A, B, C, D, all collected by my father in the Gorge 
Sauvage of the Vallée de Cairos, near Saorge (Alpes Maritimes). 
A and B on April 1, 1868; C, April 26, 1867; D, April 23, 1864. 
Remarxs.—It has been stated that Primula Allionii, Lois, grows 
among the Dolomite mountains of Tyrol, and especially in the southern 
part of that district. The Tyrol plant is, however, the distinct though 
closely related species Primula Tyrolensis, Schott,* separated at once 
from P. Allionii, Lois, by its linear or cuneate, herbaceous, divergent 
bracts; while those of our plant are reniform or broadly ovate, mem- 
branous, and overlapping each other. I have compared the specimens 
of the Tyrol plant in the Kew Herbarium (P. Tyrolensis, Schott, Monte 
Serva, Belluno, Papperitz, ex Herb. Fl. G. Rchb.) and those in the 
British Museum (2060, P. Allionii, Lois, ‘Tirol in Fiemme auf den Alpe 
Castellazzo di Paneveggio,’ Dr. Facchini) with the true Primula Alli- 
onii, Lois, which I figure, and find that they differ in the characters 
above mentioned, as well as in less important points. The same obser- 
vations also apply to a specimen wrongly labelled P.* Allionii, Lois, 
given me by Mr. G. C. Churchill, whose name is now so well known in 
connection with the Dolomite Mountains, gathered by Ambrosi (Val 
Caldiera, in Val Sugana, South Tyrol). Mr. Churchill, in a letter to 
me, speaking’ of this Tyrol Primula, says, “I gathered it on Monte 
Civita, south of Caprile, in the province of Belluno, and certainly on 
Dolomite.” Primula Allionii, Lois, grows exclusively in the moun- 
tainous regions north of Mentone, and the only habitats yet found are 
* Schott, Sippen. p. 18, ex Rehb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xvii. p. 44, tab. 1101, fig. 3. 
