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flexed flowers, upper ones green inconspicuous amongst 

 the flowers ; pedicels none ; anthopodium hardly developed. 

 Calyx bright green deflexed oblique thin equalling in 

 length corolla-tube ; tube 7 to 8 mm. long subventricose, 

 posteriorly convex, both outside and inside white-mealy ; 

 lobes 5 equalling the tube glabrous outside and inside, 

 unequal, posterior largest subquadrate often 2*5 mm. 

 broad subtruncate at top and fimbriate glandular-ciliate 

 decurved the fringe upturned, postero- lateral lobes like 

 to but narrower than posterior, antero-lateral lobes smallest 

 often oblong narrow and obtuse at apex, some lobes often 

 confluent, posterior lobe including others in bud. Corolla 

 ivory-white everywhere white-mealy outside, about 1"6 cm. 

 long in short-styled flower, about 1"4 cm. long in long- 

 styled ; tube narrow about 1"25 mm. in diameter in short- 

 styled flower, 2 mm. in long-styled, cylindric slender 

 somewhat rugulose and shining inside, mealy above the 

 stamens, in short-styled flower about 8 mm. long, in long- 

 styled about 7 mm., slightly ampliate above the stamens, 

 exannulate; limb widely ampliate deeply concave potentially 

 mealy inside ; lobes about 3"5 mm. long, subtruncate bifid 

 the segments connivent and subfimbriate. Stamens with 

 veiy short filaments slightly expanded at base, in short- 

 styled flower inserted at mouth of corolla, in long-styled 

 below middle of corolla-tube with anther-tips about 4 mm. 

 from its mouth ; anthers pale yellow with paler connec- 

 tive. Ovary globose with thin pale wall about 1'5 mm. 

 in diameter ; short style pale yellow scarcely 1 mm. long, 

 long style reaching mouth of corolla-tube ; stigma large 

 yellowish-white discoid recurved depressed. Capsule pale 

 brown, about 2'5 mm. in diameter crustaceous in upper half, 

 without stylopod, membranous in lower half and there en- 

 closed in the slightly enlarged mealy calyx, dehiscing to 

 middle by 5 valves ; placenta stipitate the stalk about 

 0'5 mm. long, ovuliferous area conoid 1 mm. in diameter 

 wider than the stalk and reaching top of capsule. Seeds 

 flattened oval disk-like about IS mm. long, pale brown, 

 testa papillate. 



Bhutan. Cooper. No. 4975. 



A charming white-flowered species of the Muscarioid 

 section of Primula which flowered in the Royal Botanic 



