APPENDIX. 



Primula Bp. No. 2 (F 39) is very hard to place ; it is best pictured by imag- 

 ining a scape of soft-mauve P. hirsute applied close upon a rosette of P.farinosa 

 - : I J •' 1 charming species, and abounds on cool, mossy rocks 



and cliffs in the woodland zone of the Chago-ling-Satanee Alps, penetrating 

 Thunderer own, where it is commonly seen in the boulder-crevices 

 from 8000 feet to the actual gaunt summits of the ridge, where it is still in 

 bloom at the end of June — long after the May-flowering specimens of Satanee 

 have passed into seed. It is purely a saxatile plant, of cracks and crannies, 

 and dies away in autumn to a beautiful fat knop of creamy-white, the same soft 

 lex on the reverse of the foliage finely enhancing the blossom in spring- 

 _-oodly in form and rosette and freedom and flower, in 

 the Ai : 3ata nee ; about Chago-ling, and throughout its strange dis- 



tribution over the open flanks of Thundercrown, it seems to miss the cool and 

 f the woodland cliffs, and is universally thin and starved in 

 growth, with only 2 or 3 blooms to a scape, instead of the possible 8 that it can 

 attain to in the sub-alpine river glens of Satanee. (P. scopulorum, Sp. nova : 

 rather tender ; perhaps contains two species.) 



Primula Bp. No. 3 (F 33) is clearly a microform of P. obconica — an inter- 

 .^nd northerly an extension of the group. It is a 

 small, daintv clump, with gracious little scant umbels of mauve-crimson blos- 

 som ; three tufts were first seen on a steep, grassy rill-bank above Chago on 

 6th May. and then a whole bank, cool and overhung with slight coppice, was 

 seen studded with delicate specimens on the descent from Chago to the Satanee 

 River on 8th Mav. It proved impossible to get either seeds or plants of this 

 — a failure with which I am glad to compound for success with so many more 

 brilliant and important species. (P. riparia, Sp. nova. See above.) 



Primula .Sp. No. 4 (F 40) is interesting, as being the plant previously 



•:d from Kansu, P. Loczii, from Szechenyi's tour in the Kweite Alps, 



eight awav north of this region. In my experience it is confined to the district 



round Ga-hoba, where, on the high moorland ridges confronting the huge 



pe, it abounds on all the myriad little willowed hummocks and 



dimples of the fell, not only in the mossy banks, but out upon the fine open 



turf itself in sheets. Above Ga-hoba it is sporadic on the higher ridge behind, 



,:rence was in one big patch just below the erest of the Mo- 



Pmg Pass, on the further side. It is a charming, pretty thing, like a glossy 



dwarf and perfectly powdedeae P.farinosa, with the curious quality of throwing 



out a number of rooting stolons from the central crown, and so forming rapidly, 



where satisfied, into a thick wide carpet. It blooms in early May, and is a 



lovely reminder of P.farinosa. in farinosa's pet situations, on the cool, grassy 



fringes of the woodlands and fell coppices about Ga-hoba. Seed was late and 



; my chief hope lies in dormant crowns despatched in December. 



(None too hardy.) 



Primula Bp. No. 5 (F 61) belongs to the Polyneura Group, but is, I think, 

 of special interest as bridging the gulf between this section and that of P. sep- 

 temloba. Union I am wrong. P. septemloba lives in the cool upper woodland 



512 



