Puate LXXXV. 
ANDROSACE Cuarxu, Gren. et Godr. 
Natural Order PrimuLace a. 
Gen. Cuar.—Calyx 5-toothed or deeply cleft. Corolla cup- or funnel- 
shaped, the tube shorter than the calyx and contracted at the throat, 
which is almost closed by a ring of minute scales. Style short. Capsule 
5-valved splitting from base to apex. Seeds usually few, about 5 in each 
capsule, sometimes many. 
Spec. Car. Peduncles glabrous above, slightly pubescent at base. 
Bracts subglabrous with ciliated edges, lanceolato-obovate or obovate, 
sometimes with 2 lateral teeth, each bract having a small pouch-like 
appendage at the base of the midrib. Calyx glabrous except for a few ciliz, 
lobes ovate acute, shorter than the 5-sided tube, considerably enlarged in 
fruit and then broader than long. Corolla pink, 1-2 as long as calyx, 
lobes obtuse, entire. Capsule half as long again as calyx, valves narrow 
lanceolate. Seeds large, few, elliptic, convex on one face and nearly flat on 
the other, shagreened. Leaves oblongo-lanceolate, shortly toothed above, 
minutely pubescent or subglabrous, forming a single rosette. (I have 
seen a single, abnormally developed specimen in which there were small 
imperfect lateral rosettes.) Plant annual or biennial. 
Androsace Chaixii, Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. ii. 458; Ardoino Fl. Alp. 
Mar. p. 310; A. septentrionalis, Vill. (non L.) Hist. Plant. Dauph. 
li. 281. 
Hasirat.—Near Brianconnet, at 2800 ft. elevation, in the extreme 
north-west of the department of the Alpes Maritimes; the flowers collected 
by my father, May 5, 1870, and the ripe capsules by Mr. J. Orr, during 
the following summer. 
Remarks.—The genus Androsace can scarcely be limited by descrip- 
tion so as to distinguish it from Primula, and Professor H. G. Reichen- 
bach says* that Androsace differs from Primula only in its ‘usually 
short tube of the corolla with throat crowned with minute prominences, 
and its usually few-seeded capsule, splitting from base to apex.” The 
curious, minute, pouch-like enlargements at the bases of the bracts in 
Androsace Chaixii are said by Reichenbach to be found also in A. laciea, L. 
This singular and exceptional character reappears in Primula, thus 
affording additional evidence of the close affinity of these two genera, 
the involucral bracts in P. farinosa, L., being slightly saccate at the base, 
while those of P. Munro, Lind.,f a plant from Northern India, are 
prolonged into distinct and prominent spurs. 
* Tc. FI. Germ. xvii. p. 46. + Bot. Reg. xxii. tab. 15. 
