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in height, giving it the appearance, as Mr. Maclaren its 

 discoverer remarks, of P.japonica. RJi. septemloba, Franch. 

 sometimes but seldom shows one whorl below the terminal 

 umbel. There is, however, a Yunnan plant of the section 

 rivalling P. Maclareni in the size of the scape and number 

 of tiers of flowers. It was found in 1913 by Mr. Forrest 

 on the Chungtien Plateau at 10,000 ft., and he speaks of it 

 as a plant of 2| ft. high. The dried specimens in Mr. 

 Forrest's collection are in fruit only, and whilst I have no 

 doubt about it being a new species as yet undescribed, I 

 have not felt wari-anted up till now in describing it in the 

 absence of flowers. 



Seeds of the Korean plant were presented to the Royal 

 Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, by Mr. P. D. Williams, of 

 Lanarth, Cornwall, and seedlings raised from them flowered 

 in 1917. The plant has not yet been grown in the open 

 and has not attained its maximum size. The longest scapes 

 on our plants were about 18 ins., and tlie}^ produced three 

 whorls of flowers below the terminal umbel. 



The plant loses its foliage after flowering, like P.jesoana, 

 Miq. of the same section, and perennates like it by the 

 formation of numerous ovoid or globose buds on the 

 rhizomes. These buds look like bulbils, but they have no 

 fleshy scales and are real!}' chamber-buds, that is to say, 

 each is composed of a number of membranous scale-leaves, 

 the outer brown closely enrolling the inner green ones and 

 forming a cliamber in wliich are found the already formed 

 young leaves and the incipient flower-shoot of the next 

 season standing on a broad flattened axis and not over- 

 lapping nor filling up the chamber. The scale-leaves are 

 viscid, the secretion acting as in other cases as a protection 

 to tlu! young soft parts within. 



Primula 'ni/pestris, Balf. f. et Farrcr.^ 



A sticky perennial lurb coated everywhere with long 

 and short glandulni- haii-s. Leaves as much as 18 cm. long 



' Primula rupcstris, Balf. f. et I'arier. — Herba inulticeps. Folia 

 longe petiolata ad 13 cm. longa viscida glandulo.so-pilot-a ])ilis brevibus 

 et loiigis iiitermixtis ; lamina elli])tico-ovata ad 4 cm. ionga et lata 

 fere roLundata margine plernmque 7-lol)ata lobis inaequaliler lobulatis 

 lobulis obturti-; vel rotuiidatis vel subtriincatis ad apicem rubro- 

 punctatis basi cordatis finu clause, supra couvexa atro-viridis opaca, 



