Primula.] LXXXVII. PRIMULACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 485 



Rootstock horizontal. Leaves few, lobes 10-12, pubescent on both surfaces; 

 petiole 2-5 in. Scape twice as long as the leaves ; bracts small ; pedicels slender. 

 Calyx glabrous, campanulate, cleft half way, teeth acute. Corolla ^-^ in. diam., 

 tube twice as long as the calyx, funnel-shaped. A near ally of the European and 

 Siberian P. cortusoides, and of the Turkestan P. Kauffmanniana, Regel, but the acute 

 lobing of the broader leaf is very different. 



9. P. filipes, Watt in Journ. Linn. Soc. Pot. ined. ; sparsely pubescent, 

 not mealy, leaves 1-1| in. orbicular ovate or oblong cordate entire lobulate 

 or toothed, petiole as long as the blade very slender, scape shorter than the 

 leaves 6-8-fld., calyx-lobes short very broad, corolla flesh-coloured, rnouth not 

 annulate, limb flat, capsule globose included, seeds very minute smooth. 

 Primula, Grif. Itin. Notes, 123, n. 396 ; Notul. iv. 299 ; Ic. PL Asiat. t. 485, 



BHOTAN ; rocks near Chuka, alt. 6500 ft., Griffith. 



Rootstock elongate, woody. Leaves membranous. Scape about equalling the 

 petiole, slender in flower, thickened in fruit; bracts small, subulate. Calyx broadly 

 campanulate. Corolla-tube | in., three times as long as the calyx, funnel-shaped ; 

 limb as much broad ; lobes obovate, 2-lobed. Seeds ~ in., dark brown, obtusely- 

 angled. Allied to the Chinese P. obconica. Hance (P. poculiformis, Bot. Mag. t. 

 6582), but much smaller and more delicate, and the corolla-tube is longer. 



10. P. Ziisteri, King ms. ; pubescent, not mealy, rootstock woody, leaves 

 1-1 in. orbicular-cordate sinuate-lobed entire or denticulate very membranous, 

 petiole equalling the blade or longer very slender, scapes shorter than the 

 petiole few-fid., bracts few linear, calyx campanulate, lobes broad short, corolla 

 rose-pink, tube funnel-shaped, mouth not annulate. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Tonglo and the Singalelah ranges, in bamboo jungles, alt. 

 9-10,000 ft. 



I retain this species as distinct from P. filipes with great doubt, having very 

 imperfect specimens of this last ; it differs chiefly in the more orbicular lobulate 

 leaves, broader calyx and much shorter more funnel-shaped corolla-tube. Petiole 

 with a very short small sheath. Corolla-tube outside, and mouth pubescent. Whole 

 plant smelling like Geranium Eobertianum (Watt). 



B. Leaves sessile or base narrowed into a broad winged petiole, margins 

 re volute in vernation (petiole sometimes long and slender in P. sibirica, in- 

 volucrata, tibetica, and petiolaris). 



* Scape normally much longer than the leaves. Flowers very numerous in 

 dense heads, or umbellate with very short pedicels, purple. Bracts small, 

 short, usually hidden by the flowers, bases not gibbous or produced. Corolla- 

 tube usually much exceeding the calyx. 



11. P. denticulata, Smith Exot. Bot. ii. 109, t. 114 ; sparingly mealy, 

 leaves not fully developed till after flowering surrounded at the base by thick 

 fleshy leafy scales, leaves obovate-spathulate obtuse sharply minutely toothed 

 or subentire, flowers capitate, heads depressed, corolla-tube usually twice as 

 long as the long or short obtuse or acute calyx-teeth, corolla mouth obscurely 

 annulate, lobes obcordate. Dubij in DC. Prodr. viii. 44 ; Raxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 

 Carey 8f Watt. ii. 17 ; Wall Cat. 607 ; Bot. Reg. 1842, t. 47 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3959. 

 P. Hoffineisteri, Klotzsch in Bot. Reise Pr. Wold. t. 66. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 7-13,000 ft. KHASIA MTS., 

 alt. 5000 ft. DISTBIB. Affghanistan. 



Rootstock stout, short, thick. Leaves erect or spreading, midrib broad, never 

 reticulate. Scape stout or slender, 4-18 in.; bracts short, unequal, sometimes 

 connate. Calyx long or short, base acute or truncate, lobes obtuse or acute. Corolla 



