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Garden, Edinburoh, in 1917. The plant was raised from 

 seed derived from a dried specimen collected by Mr. Roland 

 E. Cooper when exploring in Bhutan for Bees Ltd. Mr. 

 Cooper's specimen bore no flowers. I have not yet seen 

 enouo'h of the species to enable me to say whether the 

 capitate glands which occur all over the leaves and are 

 undoubtedly potential farina-formers usually reach the 

 stage of producing it. The scape and the flower are 

 farinose. 



In some ways P. Harroviana, like P. nutans, suggests 

 the Soldanelloid section, approaching it in the relatively 

 large ampliate limb of the corolla and the very narrow 

 tube, in the farinose glands on the corolla, and in the 

 fimbriate truncate corolla-lobes. But its inflorescence 

 and calyx are essentially Muscarioid. 



Only experience will tell us whether it is to be hardy 

 or not. Named after Robert Lewas Harrow, Principal 

 Gardener of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 



Priiniila Hopeana, Balf. f . et Cooper.^ 



A tufted herb with the short hard rhizome and fibrous 

 roots of P. sikkhnensis, Hook., epilose. Leaves long- 

 narrow as much as 14 cm. long, 2 cm. broad; lamina 

 chartaceous elongated oblong or oblaiiceolate, rounded at 

 apex, margin erose dentate, teeth ending in a conspicuous 



' I'rimula Hopean((, Balf. f. et Cooper. — Herba caespitosa /-". sikkimensi, 

 Hook, affiiiis. Folia angusta ad 14 cm. longa ad 2 cm. lata ; lamina 

 efariiiosa eloiigata oljloiiga vel oblaiiceolata margine eroso-dentata 

 deorsuiii in petiolum basi erubesceiitem aiiguste alatuni lamina dimidio 

 longiorem gradatim angustata, supra atro-viridisKul)tus])allidior utrinqiu! 

 glandulis brevibus capitati.s larini-jiotentibiis praedita. Scapiis ad 30 cm. 

 altus cum bracteis jfedicellisqiie lacteo-fariuosiis uml)ellani 3-6-floram 

 gerens ; bracteae brunueo-purpureae lineares acuminatae circ. 8 mm. 

 longae ; pedicelli virides nutanles circ. 1 '5 cm. longi (t^ub fructii aiicti ad 

 9 cm.). Calyx angiistiis fu.siformis 5-angulatus tiibum corolliniim snb- 

 aequans dense farinnsu.s fere ad basim 5-ti«.su!? lol)i.s lanceolati.s acutis intiis 

 apice farinosis. Corolla lacteo-alba extu.s glal)ra tubo cylindrico exan- 

 iiidato, ]iml)o tubo pauUo longiore infundiltuliformi intus farinoso, lobis 

 rotundatis circ. b mm. <liam, emarginatis. Standna in Hore loiigistylo 

 tul)i corolliui baHim versus inserla, lilanieiitis cons])icuis, antlicris flavis 

 angustis oblongi.s circ. 1'5 mm. longis a])iculatis. Ovarium tnrl)iiiatum ; 

 stylus longus exsertus ; stigma llavidum depressum discoideum re- 

 volutum. Capsula basi calyce inclusa valvis 5 l)ideiitatis ali apice ad 

 medium deliiscens ; placenta stipitata cylindrica ; sennna laevia magna 

 complanata. 



Species sectionis Sikkimensis foliorum cai)sulae(pie luagiiitudine et 

 Horil)Ufi lacteo-albis distincta. 



