Cortusa.'] LXXXVII. PRIMULACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 501 



3. CORTUSA, Linn. 



Scapigertus perennial pubescent herbs. Leaves long-petioled, rounded- 

 cordate, 7-9-lobed. Scape slender. Flowers umbelled, purple. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, 5-lobed. Corolla between funnel- and bell-shaped, tube short ; throat 

 naked ; lobes 5, oblong, obtuse. Anthers 5, subsessile at the base of the corolla, 

 sagittate, connivent, acute. Style filiform, exserted. Capsule ovoid, 5-valved, 

 many-seeded. DISTKIB* Species 1 or 2 ; natives of Mid-Europe, N. Asia and 

 the N.W. Himalaya. 



C. IMCatthioli, Lmn. - t DC. Prodr. viii. 55; Reichb.Ic. Fl Germ. 1. 1081 ; 

 Sot. Mag. t. 987. 



KASHMIR and LAHUL, alt. 7-9000 ft., Jacquemont, Falconer, &c. DISTRIB. Aff- 

 ghanistan, Alps of Europe, ST. Asia. 



Leaves membranous, 1-4 in. diam. ; lobes shallow, crenate- toothed ; petiole 4-6 in. 

 Scapes much taller than the petioles. Umbels 6-10-fld. ; pedicels slender, very 

 unequal ; invol. bracts ^-\ in., lanceolate. Calyx small, lobes ovate. Corolla |-f in. 

 diam., cleft to the middle. 



4. BR,YOCAHPU1VI, Hook.f. # Thorns-. 



A scapigerous glabrous herb. Leaves ovate or ovate-cordate, obtuse, sub- 

 crenate, with scattered orbicular scales beneath ; petiole winged. Scapes 

 slender, 1-fld. Floiver nodding, yellow. Calyx of 7 subulate-lanceolate divi- 

 sions. Corolla between funnel- and bell-shaped, 7-lobed to the middle, throat 

 naked, lobes 2-fid, Stamens 7, filaments short; anthers oblong, acuminate. 

 Ovary narrowly oblong, scaly; style slender; placenta columnar. Capsule 

 elongate-cylindric, many -seeded, the top with the style falling away. 



B. himalaicuxn, Hook.f. fy Thorns, in Kew Journ. Bot. ix. 199, t. 5. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; in pine woods at Lachen, alt. 8-10,000, J. D. H. 



Rootstock stout. Leaves -3 in. long, coriaceous ; petiole about as long. Scapes 

 1-3, much longer than the leaves, very slender. Corolla in. long, twice as long as 

 the calyx. Capsule 2-2^ in. long, erect, very membranous. Seed's (young) orbicular. 



5. LYSIBXACHIA, Linn. 



Erect procumbent or creeping herbs. Leaves quite entire, opposite alternate 

 or whorled. Flowers solitary racemed or spicate. Calyx 5-6-partite. Corolla 

 rotate or funnel-shaped, 5-6-partite. Stamens inserted on the base of the 

 corolla-lobes. Ovary subglobose ; style filiform, persistent, ovules many. 

 Capsule globose or subglobose, 5-valved or bursting irregularly, many-seeded. 

 Seeds trigonous or plano-convex. Species about 60 ; chiefly N. temperate. 



A. Flowers white or pale pink. Corolla funnel-shaped ; segments obovate- 

 spathulate. Filaments quite free from one another at the base. Leaves alternate, 

 rarely opposite. 



* Flowers in elongate terminal racemes ; pedicels longer than the linear or 

 subulate bracts. 



f Stamens longer than the corolla. 



1. Zi. Iieschenaultii, Duly in DC. Prodr. viii. 61 ; Mem. Prim. t. 4; 



