Primula. 



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1 38. Pr. Maximowiczii Regel in Acta horti petropol. III. (1874) 139; Franch. 

 in Nouv. Aren. Mus. hist. nat. Paris 2. ser. VI. (1883) 79; Pax in Engler's Bot. 

 Jahrb. X. (1889) 218; Forbes 

 and Ilt'iiisl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 WV1. (1889) 40. — Pr. oreo- 

 tiharia Hance in Journ. of Bot. 

 IUI. (1875) 133. — Glabra, 

 efarinosa. Folia distinete petio- 

 lata vel fere subsessilia, 3 — 5 cm 

 longa, 1,5 — 3 cm lata, anguste 

 elliptica vel elliptico-oblonga, 

 acuta , dense .denticulata vel 

 subintegra, basi acuta; petiolus 

 alatus , laminam aequans , basi 

 vaginato-dilatatus, albidus, rarius 

 subnullus. Scapus quam folia 

 multoties longior, 20 — 40> cm 

 altus, glaber, efarinosus, robu- 

 stus, umbellam valde multifloram 

 simplicem vel umbellas super- 

 positas, 4 cm et post anthesin 

 5 — 6 cm inter se distantes ge- 

 rens; bracteae e basi lata longe 

 acuminatae; pedicelli filiformes, 

 I — 1,5 cm longi. Calycis cam- 

 panulati, 6 — 9 cm longi, viridis, 

 5-costati, ad trientem partem 

 incisi lobi trianguläres, acutis- 

 simi, subrecurvi. Corollae atro- 

 purpureae tubus gracilis, cylin- 

 dricus, fere 1,5 cm longus, fau- 

 cem versus ampliatus, calyce 

 duplo longior, limbus explanatus 

 1,5 cm diametiens, lobi reflexi, 

 oblongi, 5 — 6 mm longi, nee 

 retusi, nee emarginati. Capsula 

 13 — 18 mm longa, calycem sae- 

 pius valde excedens. 



Nördl. Centralchina, von 

 Kansu bis Tschili. 



Var. a. brevifolia Pax. — 

 Folia fere sessilia, fere integra, 

 ovata vel ovato-oblonga. Scapus 

 10 — 22 cm altus. 



Shensi und Kansu (Po- 

 tanin!). 



Var. ß, Dielsiana Pax. — 

 Folia distinete petiolata, subtus 

 pallidiora , margine incrassato 

 manifeste denticulata. Scapus 

 saepius 20 — 40 cm altus. 



Shensi (Giraldi n. 4699!): 

 Hu.m-tou-shan (Giraldi n.7090l, 

 4703!), Tai-pa-shan (Giraldi 



Fig. 30. Pr. tangutica Pax. 4 Habitus. B Flos. CCorolIa 

 longitudinaliter seeta et explanata. — Icon. origin. 



