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umbellam paucifloram (saepius 4-5-) gerens, ± farinosus ; 

 bracteae ± 6, circ. 1 cm. longae, subulatae, ± farinosae ; 

 pedicelli 1-2 cm. longi ; flores subcernui. Calyx farinosus 

 5-costatus, ± 1 cm. longus, tubuloso-campanulatus, ad 

 medium vel ultra fissus ; lobi oblongi, apice obtusi vel 

 rotundati, erecti. Corolla pallido-flava, fere alba, saepe 

 obliqua et paululo irregularis ; tubus fere 2 cm. longus, 

 abrupte ampliatus ; limbus circ. 2'5 cm. diametro ; lobi 

 rotundati emarginati. Capsula calycem superans cylindrica. 



Eastern Himalaya. — In the neighbourhood of Changu, 

 elevation 12,000 feet, Nos. 3269, 3580, 4546, Smith in 

 Herb. Calc. et Herb. Edin. ; at Gnatong, No. 4364, Kings 

 Coll. ; Singalela Range, 12,300 feet, No. 5243, Watt ; at 

 Mon Lepcha, Jongri, 14,000 feet, No. 5604, Watt ; also at 

 Megu. Tari, and other Sikkim localities at an eleva- 

 tion 12,000-13,000 feet, without definite number, native 

 collectors 



This species is, no doubt, the East Himalayan represen- 

 tative of Primula Stuart ii, but the points of difference are 

 too many to allow of its being considered conspecific. The 

 flowers are usually few in number, of a very pale yellow, 

 almost white, and frequently with a somewhat zygomorphic 

 corolla. Sir George Watt on sheet No. 5243 describes his 

 flowers as " very large pale fleshy pink, very thick velvety 

 in texture, and very delicately perfumed." It is evidently 

 not the sulphur-yellow P. Stuartii. In the Chola Range 

 in 1910 I found it closely associated with and growing 

 freely among the Rhododendrons at 12,000 feet. It ranges 

 above P. sikkimensis, Hook, f., and P. reticulata, Wall., 

 but below P. obtusifolia, Royle, in that area. 



A Contribution to the Flora of Arran. 

 By William G. Travis. 



This paper is the outcome of short holiday visits to the 

 Isle of Arran, in August 1904 and July 1910. On the 

 occasion of my second visit, my attention was largely 

 devoted to the cryptogams, and the mosses and hepatics 

 of my collecting enumerated hereinafter were then 

 gathered. 



