Dr Balfour's Description of Jiare Plants. 381 



Emh)-iio in axi albuminis carnosi. — Herbse in Europa et Asia 

 imprimis alpicolce, in America horeali raroi, foliis plerumque 

 radicalibus, scapo simplici, floribus umbdlatis, involucratis, 

 soipissime speciosis. Endlicher et Duhif. 



Specific Character. — Foliis laevibus, planis, late lanceolatis, acutis, 

 glaberrirais, subtis farina lutel obtectis, acute serratis, interdum 

 margine levolutis, in petiolum late alatum basi dilatatum niera- 

 branaceum subvaginantem subcoarctatis ; scapo crasso, glabro, foliis 

 longiore, sub involucre farinoso, involucri multiflori polyphylli 

 pedicellos subaequantibus et illis interdum brevioris foliolis in- 

 aequalibus e basi anguste lanceolata acuminato-elongatis obtusius- 

 culis, calycis farinacei campanulato-tubulosi subultra-quinquefidi 

 tubo dimidio brevioris laciniis lanceolatis subacutis, corollae hypo- 

 crater imorphse lobis obrotundis subcrenulatis vix emarginatis. 

 Diihy. 



Primula Stuartii, Wall. Fl, Ind., il., p. 20. Didnj In Dee. Prod., 

 viii., p. 41. Don, Prodrom. Flor. Nepal., p. 80. Balfour in 

 Botanical Magazine, 4356. 



This beautiful perennial herbaceous Primrose is a native of the 

 mountainous parts of India, having been gathered in Gossain- 

 Than in Nepal, by Wallich, and on the Himalayah, at an eleva- 

 tion of 9000 feet, by Royle, who speats of it as giving a rich 

 yellow glow to those regions. The plant flowered in the garden 

 of the Edinburgh Horticultural Society, under the superintend- 

 ence of Mr James M'Nab, during the summer of 1847, having 

 been presented by the late Sheriff Speirs, in whose garden, at 

 Granton House, it was raised from seeds sent from India by 

 Major Grant, 9th Lancers, during the spring of 1845. It veas 

 planted in a north exposed border in the summer of 1846, in a 

 i.iixture of loam and peat. It stood the winter of 1846-47 un- 

 protected, and without any artificial covering except its own de- 

 cayed leaves. The plant did not produce seed. 



Plant about 16 inches high. Leaves 10 or 11 inches long, nu- 

 merous, radical, erect, smooth, broadly lanceolate, acute, shining 

 above, covered below with a yellowish mealy matter or farina 

 (the grains of which are supported on short cellular projections), 

 gradually ending in a sheathing petiole, which is deeply hollowed 

 in it8 upper surface ; margins of leaves slightly undulated with 

 close sharp serratures, which are occasionally directed downwards, 

 and are somewhat revolute at the point ; midrib very prominent 

 on the lower side, grooved in the upper, not covered with meali- 

 ness. Vernation revolute. Scape umbellate with numerous flowers 

 longer than the leaves, covered for about half its length from be- 

 low the point where the pedii;els diverge with a pale sulphur -yel- 



