TRANSACTIONS 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



SESSION LXXXIL 



Some New Species of Primula which have Flowered 

 Recently. By Professor Bayley Balfour, F.R.S. 



(Read 13th December 1917.) 



The species described here are : — 



P. chrysopti, Balf. f. et Forrest. Yunnan. (Forrest.) 



F. Harroviana, Balf. f. et Cooper. Bhutrin. (Cooper.) 



P. Hoprana, Balf. f. et Cooper. Bhutan. (Cooper.) 



P. Madareni, Bali. L Korea. (Maclaren.) 



/'. rupestris, B;ilf. f. et Farrer. Kansu. (Farier and Purdom.) 



/'. scopuloritm, Balf. f. et Farrer. Kansu. (Farrer and Purdom.) 



Primula chrysopa, Balf. f. et Forrest.^ 



A tufted marsh-loving perennial more or less whitely 

 mealy with a slender rootstock rooting freely and emitting 

 many short stolons. Leaves with long petioles as much as 

 13 cm. long, ascending ; lamina somewhat fleshy concave 

 in the middle above recurving at the sides oblong-elliptic 

 or sometimes elliptic as much as 3 cm. long and lo cm. 



1 Primula chrysopa, Balf. f. et Forrest.— Caespitosa plus minusve 

 albo-farinosa stolones breves emittens. Folia longe petiolata ad 13 cm. 

 longa ascendeutia ; lamina oblongo-elliptica circ. 3 cm. longa 15 cm. 

 lata circumcirca dentata margine minute glanduloso-ciliata in petiolum 

 abrupte cunealim contracLa utriuque pilis fariniferis pulverulenta. 

 Scapus ad 25 cm. altus cum bracteis pedicellisque albo-farinosus 

 umbellam 2-4-floram solitariam gerens nunc verticillo infra praeditus. 

 Flores fragrautes nutantes. Caly.x lale fusiformis angulatus, lobis con- 

 niventibus. Corolla pallide lilacina aureo-oculata extus albo-farinosa 

 ore strumis cincta, lol)is latis obcordatis imbricatis bitidis. Stamina floris 

 brevistyli ad os corollinum inserta. Stylus brevis calyce paullo longior. 



Species P. gemmiferae, Batal. affinis foliis longius petiolatis albo- 

 farinosis, corolla extus albo-farinosa inter notas alias distinguenda. 



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