APPENDIX. 



P. cilrina. See my Chinese Appendix. 



P. compsantha stands close to P. minor, but is still obscure in position. It 

 lives on the open stony pastures of Yunnan, and is a small dainty thing, with 

 stilus of 4 to 5 inches rising from a rosette clothed at the base in relics of dead 

 leaves. The head carries four or five rather trumpet-throated flowers, said to 

 be pink, and with a greenish yellow eye, whiskered with hairs. 



P. conspersa. See my Chinese Appendix. 



P. coryphaca calls out our utmost longings to the open granite summits of 

 the Burmese mountains, where it forms wide carpets in coarse sandy soil be- 

 tween drifts of dwarf Rhododendron — a tiny lovely species in the group of 

 P. bella, with white-fluffed throat and blossoms of rich blue- violet. But how 

 hardy will it prove ? 



P. Farreriana, my noblest new species of 1915, is one of the most magnificent 

 of the nivalis clan, and haunts only the dark sunless chines of granitic or lime- 

 stone precipices at great elevations in the Da-Tung Alps. It is, indeed, astonish- 

 ingly saxatile for its appearance : it makes stocks as thick and fat and suc- 

 culent as any leek's, so wedged into the dark corners and danker crannies of 

 the precipice that one wonders how it can find room or nourishment. The 

 foliage is ample and splendid, of deepest glossy green, and white with meal 

 beneath ; the stout stems just emerge above, carrying some half a dozen very 

 large and deliciously fragrant blooms, of palest lavender blue, which fades in time 

 to a French grey from the central 10-lobed star of white, in clear contrast to 

 the profound claret-purple of the tube, which, when the flower is seen full-face, 

 gives the effect of an almost black eye. 



P. fasciculata recalls little P. tibetica, but has its orange-eyed flowers of 

 bright rose, rather larger, and always solitary, quite stemless in minute tufts, 

 constellating the high bogs in Western Yunnan. 



P. florid a is a neat, tidy plant, with a tight head of large blossoms almost 

 disproportionate to the small rosette from which it is borne aloft on a stem of 

 4 to 5 inches. They vary through tones of lavender, and are fragrant. P. florida 

 has some look of P. stenocalyx, and is a lovely species from high and stony 

 limestone pastures of Western Yunnan. 



P. fragilis forms moss-like patches in half shade on calcareous cliffs in 

 Upper Burma. It is a wee delicate thing, clothed in golden meal, and upturning 

 from its minute mats its solitary flowers of pale purple. 



P. Gageana plays but a small part in our present hopes. P. Gageana lives 

 very high up indeed in the Alps of Sikkim, in the bogs. It is a smaller but hardly 

 less beautiful version of P. Kingii, but with oblong blunt leaves and different 

 lobing of the corolla ; which, however, has much of the dark claretty tone and 

 the fleshy downiness that is so remarkable in P. Kingii. The stem is about 

 8 inches in height, with a head of 1 to 8 pendent blooms : but, alas, P. Gageana 

 exists only so far in one set of dried specimens. 



P. glanduldfera is yet another in the group of tiny tufted Primulas round 

 P. minutissima, and yet another still only known by a dried specimen or two. 

 It is so close in fact to P. Slirtoniana and P. minutissima as hardly to be 



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