Androsace.] LXXXVII. PRIMULACEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 499 



seeded. Seeds angular, granulate. In Wallioh's Herbarium the ticket of this has 

 been inadvertently attached to a sheet of A. sarmentosa. 



VAR. 1. typica, densely clothed with white silky hairs, stems and branches elon- 

 gate, umbels dens^-fld., pedicels short Throughout the Western Himalaya. 



VAR. 2. glabrior, Wall. ; more slender, sparingly villous or silky, umbels loose, 

 pedicels -1 in. slender. Kumaon to Sirmore. 



10. A. villosa, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 13; stoloniferous, densely 

 villous, leaves in small globose rosettes sessile lanceolate or spathulate, scapes 

 solitary, invol. leaves usually equalling the pedicels, calyx cleft half-way, lobes 

 obtuse, corolla-lobes obovate, tips rounded, mouth with a conical erect tubular 

 swelling. Duby in DC. Prodr. viii. 60 ; Jacq. Coll. i. t. 12 j Reichb. Ic. Grit. 

 iii. t. 248, vi. t. 680 ; Ic. FL Germ. xvii. t. 1112. A. Jacquemontii, Duby I. c. 

 50 ; Mem. Prim. t. 3, f. 1. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; in the drier regions from Kumaon to Kashmir and WESTERN 

 TIBET, alt 12-17,000 ft. DISTRIB. Afghanistan, Caucasus, Alps, Asia Minor, Central 

 and N. Asia. 



Prostrate, in tufted masses of short naked stems and stolons bearing at close 

 intervals villous rosettes ^-1 in. diam. ; much resembling a very small state of A. 

 sarmentosa or lanuginosa, but the corolla has a prominent conical ring at the mouth. 

 The scapes are sometimes shortened, and the umbels sessile. Boissier identifies A. 

 Jacquemoniii with A. vi/losa, I think rightly. I distinguish it from states of A. Chama- 

 jasme with great difficulty. 



11. A. Hlookeriana, Klatt in Linncea xxxii. 293, t. iii. f. 1 ; sparingly 

 pubescent, loosely tufted, stolons and branches rigid divaricate, rosettes of few 

 unequal small petioled obovate or elliptic obtuse flat leaves, scapes solitary 

 slender few-fld., bracts linear, calyx-lobes obtuse, corolla-lobes obovate, tips 

 retuse, mouth annulate. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Lachen, alt. 12-14,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Branches divaricating. Leaves - in., narrowed into petioles of sometimes the 

 length of the blade. Scapes ^3 in. Corolla much larger than the calyx, pink. Cap- 

 sule 2 -seeded. 



12. A. Chamaejasme, Host; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 14; laxly villous 

 with jointed hairs, loosely tufted, stolons and branches slender, ^osettes of many 

 densely tufted sessile small obovate ovate-oblong or -lanceolate spreading or 

 imbricating leaves, scape solitary hairy few-fld., bracts linear-oblong or spathu- 

 late equalling the pedicels, calyx-lobes obtuse, corolla-lobes longer obovate, tips 

 rounded, mouth annulate. Duby in DC. Prodr. viii. 51 ; Reichb. Ic. Crit. vi. t, 

 580; Ic. FL Germ. xvii. t. 1U2; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 232. A. villosa, Jacq. 

 Fl. Austr. t. 352. 



WESTERN TIBET, Henderson ; Barjila and Karakoram, alt. 12-15,000 ft., Clarke. 

 DISTRIB. Alps, Arctic Russia, Central and N. Asia, Arctic America. 



VAR. coronata ; leaves densely tufted imbricate shorter and narrower, mouth of 

 corolla with the ring prominent. Western Tibet, alt. 16-17.000 ft., H. Strachey, 

 Henderson. 



VAR. uniflora ; leaves densely imbricate, scape very short 1-2-fld. Western Tibet ; 

 Ralam, N. of Kumaon, Strach. $ Winterh., No. 8. 



Apparently identical with the European, Ace., plant, and like it variable in the 

 size of the whole plant and of the leaves. Rosettes |-^ in. diam. Leaves ^-1 in., 

 obtuse or subacute. Flowers and capsules as in A. Hookeriana. 



*** Scape* solitary, l-Z-Jld., or peduncle l-Jld. 



13. A. muscoidea, Duby in DC. Prodr. viii. 48: villous, stems elongate 

 forming dense broad patches, leaves densely imbricated in close-set globose 



