Primula Miyabeana: a New Primrose 

 from Mount Morrison in Formosa. 



By 

 Tokutaro Ito, Sc. D., F. L. S. 



With Plate XXIV. 



Primula (Sect. 20. Cankrienia, Pax a) ) Miyabeana Ito et Kawakami. 



Species Pr. japonicae, A. Gray. 2) et Pr. serratifoliae, Franch. 3) proxiraa seel 

 floribus parvis et iobis corollarum crenatoserratis differt ; etiam Pr. angustidenti, 

 Pax 4) (syn. Pr. Wilsonii, Dunn 5) ) et Pr. Poissonii, Francli. 6) proxima, a priore 

 tubo corollarum breviori, a secunda bracteis lineari-subulatis, petiolis longioribus, 

 corollis intus glabris, et capsulis globosis, ab utrisqne speciebus calycibus intus 

 farinosis differt. 



Herba elata, glabra, calyce excepto efarinosa. Folia 13-20 cm. longa, 3 cm. 

 lata, subcoriacea vel papyracea, obovato-oblonga vel oblanceolata, obtusa, 

 irregulariter denticulata, infra conspicue venulosa ; petioli alati, basi vaginantes. 

 Scapus elatiis, folia multo superans, 60 cm. altus, umbellas superpositas, fructiferas 

 6 cm. remotas, 6-10-flores gerens ; bracteae lineari-subulatae 1 cm. longae ; pedicelli 

 1,0-1,5 cm. longi, demum longiores, filiformes, erecti. Calyx 5 mm. longus, aperte 

 tfampaimlatus, intus farinosus, Iobis triangularibus, acuminatis. Corolla, pnrpurea 

 (fide Kawakami), tubo 8-9 mm. longo calycem superanti, limbo 1 cm. diametiens, 

 ore annulate, Iobis oblongo-obovatis, emarginatis, mucronatis, crenato-serratis. 

 Capsula globosa, 5 mm. longa, calyce brevior. Semina nigro-brunnea angulosa. 



') Pax in Pax et Knuth, Primulaceae in Engler, Pftanzenreich, IV. n. 237. p. 124 (1905). 



*> A. Gray in Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, new ser. VI. (1S57) p. 400. 



*> Franchet in Bulletin de la Kocieie botanique de France, XXXII. (1SS5) p. 267. 



) Pax, loc. cit. p. 128. 



) Dunn in Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd. ser. XXXI. (1902) p. 413. 



"> Franohet, loc. cit. XXXIII. (18S6) p. 67. 



