496 LXXXVII. PRIMULACEJB. (J. D. Hooker.) [Androsace. 



* Scapes numerous. Leaves all radical. Stolons 0, except in A. geraniifolia. 

 f- Leaves long-petioled, rounded-cordate, lobulate and crenate. 



1. A. saxifrag-ae folia, Bunge Enum. PL Chin. Sor. 53; annual, glan- 

 dular-pubescent, leaves rounded-cordate crenate-toothed, blade about as long- 

 as the petiole, calyx deeply 5-cleft, segments elliptic-acuminate stellately 

 spreading in fruit. DubyinDC. Prodr. viii. 53. A rotundifolia, Wall. Cat. 

 613; Smith Exot. Sot. t. 113; DC. I.e. 54 (not of Hardwicke). A. patens, 

 Wright in Mem. Amer. Acad. So. ser. 2, vi. 401. ? A. carnosula, Duby in 

 DC. I.e. 54. 



GANGETIC PLAIN, from Calcutta to the Punjab, and ascending the Himalayas to 

 4000 ft. DISTRIB. N. E. China, Japan, Loochoo Islands. 



The only annual Indian species. Leaves - in. diam. Scapes many, twice as 

 long as the leaves ; invol. bracts. ^ in. ; pedicels | 1 in., very unequal. Calyx fruit- 

 ing \-\ in. diam. Corolla narrower or broader than the calyx. Seeds minute, sub- 

 globose, deeply pitted. A plant confused with Hardwicke's A. rotundifolia by Wallich, 

 Smith and others, and with a third species by Koemer and Schultes (see Obs". in Koxb. 

 Fl. Ind. ed. Wail. & Carey, ii. 14). 



2. A. rotundifolia, Hardivicke in As. Research, vi. 350; perennial, 

 glandular-pubescent or villous, leaves rounded-cordate lobulate the lobules 

 usually 3-crenate, blade usually shorter than the petiole, bracts lanceolate 

 or obovate crenate sessile or petioled entire or sharply toothed, calyx cleft 

 to the middle, segments ovate recurved in fruit. Watt, in Roxb. PL Ind. ed. 



Wall. 8f Carey, ii. 14, excl. Obs. A. incisa, Wall. L c. 16; Cat. 616; Duby in 

 DC. Prodr. viii. 54. A. parviflora, Jacquem. mss. in DC. L c. 64 ; Mem. Prim. 

 t. 3, f. 4. A. elegans, Jacquem. mss. L c. 55. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 5-11,000 ft., from Kashmir to Kumaon, and in WES- 

 TERN TIBET. 



Very variable. Leaves ^-\\ in. diam., petiole 1-4 in. ; lobes very shallow, some- 

 times the sinus is not deeper than that of the crenatures. Scapes few or many, 1-6 

 in. ; invol. bracts short or long, broad or narrow, sometimes f in. long and deeply 5- 

 cleft at the broad end. Calyx, fruiting ^ ^ in. diam., sometimes much enlarged, 

 nearly 1 in. diam. and acutely toothed or 3-fid at the tip. Corolla usually much 

 larger than the calyx, hut when the latter is enlarged it becomes very small and even 

 minute. Capsule much smaller than the calyx. Seeds minute, rounded, granulate. 

 I cannot doubt this being Hardwicke's A. rotundifolia, found by him on " the most 

 elevated mountains of Shreenu^ur," and described as having toothed invol. leaves. 

 Wallich referred A. saxifragafolia to Hardwicke's rotundifolia^ and re-describes the 

 latter as A. incisa. 



VAR. 1. rotundifolia proper; softly pubescent or villous, 3-5 in. high, lobules of 

 leaf rounded entire or crenate rarely acutely toothed, corolla rarely exceeding the 

 entire calyx-lobes. Kumaon to Kashmir, alt. 3-9000 ft. 



VAR. 2. macrocalyx, Watt in Journ. Linn. Soc. ineH. ; habit, pubescence and 

 leaves of var. 1, but calyx-lobes much larger acutely toothed. Kashmir, alt. 

 5-9500 ft. 



VAR. 3. alandulosa; usually 5-12 in. high, glandular pubescent, petioles and 

 scapes more slender, lobules of leaves rounded entire truncate or crenate rarely 

 acutely toothed, corolla usually much larger than the entire calyx-lobes. Drier 

 ranges of Lahul and Kashmir; abundant in Western Tibet, alt. 7-12,000 ft. A form 

 affecting high dry regions. 



VAR. 4. Stracheyi, Watt 1. c. ; glandular-pubescent or glabrescent, 4-6 in. high, 

 scapes and petioles slender, lobules of leaf entire or creiiate, calyx in flower large 

 campahulate, lobes quite entire much exceeding the calyx. Gar whal, at Bampa, 

 fclt. 11,000 ft., Str. $ Wivterb. Kunawur, alt. 8-11,000 ft., Munro, Thomson, Brandis. 



