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upper part naked thickened and dehiscing from its top to 

 the mouth of the calyx-tube by 5 short valves ; placenta 

 cylindric about 4 mm. long with a stout stalk about 1 mm. 

 long. Seeds pale tawny oblong flattened, the testa minutely 

 tuberculate winged all round by a many-celled membranous 

 aril, 0"75 mm. long, with the aril 1'5 nnn. long. 



E.N.E. Yunnan : — Bei-ma-shan. Mekong- Yangtze divide. 

 Alt. 14,500 ft. Lat. 28° 20' N. Plant of 6-12 ins. In 

 fruit. Stony moist alpine pasture. G. Forrest. No. 13,231. 

 August 1914. 



This is a pretty oblique-flowered species. In habit it is 

 like P. Wardii, Balf. f., but without alliance with that 

 species, having white meal and no spurs to the bracts. It 

 is really very near P. gevi'mifera, Batal., but the leaves 

 have much longer petioles and a relatively shorter blade 

 with deeper and larger teeth than in that species, and are 

 always dusted with meal, as is the outside of the corolla. 

 Then the flowers have a delicious fragrance, and the con- 

 trast between the orange-coloured eye and the pale lilac 

 or violet petals is very pleasing. 



The plant is very diflerent from P. sibirica, Jacq., which 

 has spurs to the bracts as in P. iiivolucrata, Wall, and in 

 P. Wardii, Balf. f. 



Plants raised from seed collected by Mr. Forrest have 

 flowered with Messrs. Wallace at Colchester and also at 

 Edinburpfh in 1916. It is a free grower, after the fashion 

 of P. conspersa, Balf. f. et Purdoni and P. Wardii, Balf. f., 

 and produces abundant lateral shoots which grow out as 

 short stolons so that it quickly covers the soil. We have 

 not yet at Edinburgh grown it in the open, but I expect it 

 will be as hardy as P. Wardii, Balf. f. Like all mealy 

 Primulas which depend upon the meal for their effect it 

 may not be in the open so beautiful a plant as it is when 

 grown under cover owing to the loss of meal under rain. 



Primula Harroviana, Balf. f. et Cooj)er.^ 



A perennial small rosulate herb, the leaves and flowers 

 coaetaneous. Leaves petiolate small at flowering period 



1 Primula Harroviann, Balf. f. et Cooper. — Rosulata rliizoiuate parvo 

 foliis floribusque coaetaneis. Folia petiolata sub anthesi paiva ad 

 5 cm. longa (sub fructu ad 11 cm. aucta) ; lamina elliptica vel oblongo- 

 elliptica vel oblonga nunc ovata circ. 2*5 cm. longa ad 2 cm. lata apice 



