Primula.'] LXXXVII. PRIMULACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 489 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Kulu to Kashmir, alt. 10-12,000 ft,., Falconer, &c. 

 DISTRIB. Afghanistan. 



Often forming large tufts. Leaves numerous, variable in length and breadth ; margins 

 revolute or flat when flowering, not umbelled, midrib broad, nerves inconspicuous. 

 Scape equalling or exceeding the leaves, robust ; bracts \~% in. ; pedicel very variable. 

 Calyx cleft to the middle, tube angular. Corolla-tube glabrous within and without, 

 one half to twice as long as the calyx, disk of limb puberulous ; lobes variable in 

 width, sometimes toothed. Seeds ^ in. long, sharply angled, pale. 



VAK. elegans; corolla smaller, tube longer, lobes narrower. P. elegans, Duby I.e. 

 42; Mem. Prim. t. i. f. 1. Kashmir, Jacquemont ; Afghanistan. 



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Scape longer than the leaves. Flowers many (few in P. elongata), 

 umbelled or in superposed whorls. Bracts irregular, ovate or subulate, or lan- 

 ceolate from a broad not gibbous base. (See also P. petiolaris, var. 7 scapigera.} 



f Ovary globose, top acute not thicltened. Capsule globose, included in the 

 calyx. 



24. P. prolifera, Wall, in As. Research, xiii. 872, t. 3, and in Ro.rb. Fl. 

 Ind. ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 18 ; tall, not mealy, leaves 8-16 in. oblanceolate or 

 elongate obovate-spathulate obtuse quite entire or toothed glabrous or puberu- 

 lous beneath, scape very tall, flowers in superposed whorls, bracts shorter than 

 the pedicels, calyx short, lobes subulate, corolla yellow tube very long, mouth 

 annulate, limb flat, lobes obcordate crenulate, capsule globose included. Duby in 

 DC. Prodr. viii. 34; Don Prodr. 81. P. imperials, Jungh.; Miguel Fl. Ind. 

 Sat. ii. 1001. Cankrienia chrysantha, de Vriese in Jahrb. der Maatsch. van 

 Tuinb. 1850, 30. 



KHASIA Mrs., alt. 4-6000 ft., Wallich, $c. DISTRIB. Java. 



Leaves thin, nerves reticulate, petiole broad. Scape 12-18 in., stout, quite erect; 

 flowers in 2-4 distant whorls, pedicels subequal ; lower bracts sometimes foliaceous. 

 Calyx i in. long, 5-ribbed. Corolla-tube ^ in. CapsvJ,e quite glabrous, -| in. 

 diam., not exserted. Seeds rather large, 5 \ in. diam., coarsely papillose. I can see no 

 difference between the Khasian and Javan plants. The Japanese P.japonica, A. Gray, 

 differs chiefly in the purple flowers. I have not found any specimens of this in 

 Wallich's Herbarium. 



25. P. obtusifolia, Royle III. 811, t. 77, f. 1 ; mealy or not, leaves 

 2-6 in. membranous elliptic spathulate obovate or ovate acute or obtuse entire 

 crenulate erose or coarsely toothed, base narrowed rounded or cordate, petiole 

 winged, scape stout few- or many-fld., bracts ovate or subulate much shorter 

 than the pedicels often connate below, corolla purple, tube twice as long as the 

 calyx, mouth annulate, limb flat, lobes obcordate. Duby in DC. Prodr. viii. 42. 

 (Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. 8f T. Prim. 10.) 



EASTKRN and WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Kunawar, Boyle ; Kumaon, Herb. Calcutta ; 

 Sikkim, alt. 11-12,000 ft., J. D. H., Watt; Bhotan, Griffith. 



Bootstock stout, clothed with fleshy broad sheathing scales. Leaves excessively 

 variable, naked or with yellow meal beneath. Scape stout, 6-10 in. ; bracts | g- in ; 

 pedicels -! in., stout in fruit. Calyx usually mealy, cupular or broadly campanu- 

 late in fruit ; lobes triangular and ovate or linear, acute or obtuse. Corolla large, 

 bright blue-purple ; limb 1 in. diam., often puberulous. Seeds large, subglobose, ^ 

 in. diam., coarsely papillose. This resembles states of P. Stuartii, but is dis- 

 tinguished by the thin texture of the leaves, acute ovary, and globose capsule sunk in 

 the calyx. The forms with broadly ovate-cordate deeply toothed leaves differ widely in 

 aspect from those with obovate-spathulate ones. 



VAR. 1. Boi/lei; leaves obovate-spathulate subentire or erose mealy beneath, 

 tip rounded, umbels few- or many-fld. Kunawur and Sikkim. 



VAR. 2. Griffithii, Watt in .Tourn. Linn. Soc. ined. ; leaves ovate-cordate acute 

 deeply toothed, Bhotan and Sikkim. 



