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Among- boulders in sandy peat turf by streams. R. E. 

 Cooper. No. 4807. 16tli September 1915. 



A beautiful new species of the Sikkiraensis series — 

 fragrant as members of the series are. Its creamy-white 

 flowers, short capsules, and shorter and narrower leaves 

 distinguish it from others of the series. From seeds 

 collected by Mr. Cooper for Mr. Bulley — some of which 

 were generously presented by Mr. Bulley to the Royal 

 Botanic Garden, Edinburgh — plants have been raised and 

 flowered by Mr. Bulley and also at Edinburgh in 1917. 

 It is a free-growing plant, not so large or so floriferous 

 as P. sikkimensis, and I see no reason to doubt that it 

 will prove as hardy as is that species. 



The plant is named after Joseph Hope, gardener to 

 Mr. Bulley at Ness, Neston, Cheshire, to whose skill is 

 due the raising of the plants from seeds collected by 

 Mr. Cooper in Bhutan. 



Primula Maclareni, Balf. f.^ 



A multicipital herb the leaves deciduous annually from 

 the somewhat elongated underground rhizome. Rhizome 

 producing ovoid perennating chamber-buds covered by a 

 few red-brown membranous cucullate scales. Leaves erect 

 long-petiolate as much as 37 cm. long (Maclaren) ; lamina 

 of reniform or nearly orbicular outline about 8 cm. in 

 transverse diameter with 7-9 divergent primary veins, 



' Primula Maclareni, Balf. f. — Herbaniulticepsgemmisglobosismagnis 

 perennans rhizoinate elongato foliis mox deciduis. Folia elata erecta 

 longe ijetiolata ad 37 cm. longa ; lamina ambitu reniformis vel suborbicu- 

 laris inulti-lo1)ata lobis Lriaiigularibu.s acutis dentatis glanduloso-pilosa 

 margine glanduloso-ciliata basi cordata. Scapus ad 7 dm. longus, cum 

 bracteis pedicellisque calyceqne glaiiduloso-pubescens vel puberuhis uni- 

 bellam Lermiiialem et verLicillosS-S'ad S-iloros gerens ; bracteau lineari- 

 subulatae virides circ. 4 mm. longae pedicellis bi'eviores ; pedicelli breves 

 circ. 6 mm. loiigi virides initantes. Calyx viridis canipunulatus circ. 

 8 mm. longu.s fere ad Ijasim 5-lobalu.s lobis lanceolatis uiiiiierviis sinuljus 

 iriembraiiaceis, liydalhodeoconspicuo terminatis. (Corolla atro-kermesina 

 viridi- vel ilavido-oculata, tubo in (lore longistylo circ. 1 cm. longo in 

 l)revistylo r2 cm., extus g]andulo.so-])uberiilo, anniilato, limbi j)lani 

 disco circ. 2 mm. lato minule glanduloso-])ul)eru]o, lobis 5 o])cordatis 

 vel cuneatis biddis. Stamina in ilore brevistylo ad os tubi corollini 

 inserta in flore longistylo basim versus inserta, filamcntis conspicnis, 

 antheris lutei.s coiuiectivo lacteo-albo. Ovarium turbinatum ; stylus 

 Ijrevis calyce Ijrevior, longu.s paullo exsertus ; stigma discoideum viride. 



Species in sectionem Geranioides ponenda et magnitudine atque in- 

 Horescentia candelabroidea distinguenda. 



