PRIMULA. 



one or two to a most minute scape, and rather ragged in outline, 

 though inheriting an added intensity of magenta from the rather 

 aniline Tyrolensis. In culture it is quite easy in a place suited to this 

 group, and thrives with P.Facchinii and P. Dumoulinii, but is not 

 a thing of especial loveliness, though interesting on account of the 

 remoteness of the cross and its extreme rarity. 



P. x Kankeriana, a false name for the hybrid of P. minima P. 

 Wulfeniana. See under P. Deschmannii. 



P. Kaufmanniana stands quite close to the true P. cortusoeides, 

 having the same very short pedicels to the flowers, but can be distin- 

 guished by the leaves, which are more rounded and deeply incised. 

 (Turkestan.) 



P. x Kellereri. See under P. x Steinii. 



P. x Kerneri (Stein) is a synonym of P. x pubescens, Jacq., q.v. 



P. kialensis belongs to the dainty little section of P. yunnanensis, 

 to which it is closely allied. It is a rock-plant of the central mountain 

 ranges of China, and makes a neat tiny single rosette of oval toothed 

 leaves diminishing quickly to a stem as long as themselves, thin in 

 texture, and thick with golden powder underneath. The stalk is 

 perhaps 2 inches high, hardly taller than the leaves are long, and 

 carries a graceful head of some half a dozen very large lilac flowers, 

 bowl-shaped and with a long pale tube, deeply cloven lobes, and a 

 green calyx with hardly a trace of powder on it. 



P. kichanensis is sometimes offered or spoken of (for it rarely gets 

 so far as an offer) as P. Glementinae. It is a most dainty delight, 

 standing near the last, and quite easy to cultivate and keep. Here 

 also we have a neat tuft of outspreading little oval toothed foliage, 

 diminishing gradually to the base. The stem is 2 inches high or so, 

 carrying a jadiant head of long large blossoms that have to droop 

 because they are so big and so beautiful with their comely faces of 

 pale lavender-blue. The leaves are greyish, and the whole growth is 

 more or less powdery, with the whiteness especially conspicuous on 

 the umbrella of spreading calyces when the flowers are gone. 



P. Kingii flowers at 14,000 feet on the mountains of Sikkim and 

 Tibet, and, with its rich claret-purple bells, so sombre as almost to 

 be of satiny black, mocks at collectors who see them with awe but 

 have never yet been able to return into those inhospitable regions in 

 time for the seed. It makes a neat tuft of small leathery dark leaves, 

 fat and thick and oval, from which rises the stem of a few inches to 

 hang out those tragic and splendid blossoms. Its beauty is allied to 

 that of P. amethystina. 



P. kisoana is a close cousin to P. Sieboldii, and is endemic to 



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