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63. PRIMULA INAYATI Duthie. 
Natural order Primulacese. 
Perennial ; roststock thick; leaves all radical, tapering into long slenler sheathing 
petioles, upwards of 3°2 dm. long by 1-3 сш. broad, narrowly oblanceolate, rounded or 
subacute at the apex, erose or unequally crenate-serrate along the margin, membranous, dark- 
green above and covered underneath with a lustrous, silvery-green mealiness ; petiole and 
midrib reddish-brown; veins slender, reticulate; scape very long, sometimes exceeding the 
leaves, stout, pilose towards the summit; /fowers numerous, in umbels; bracts 1—1:5 cm. 
long, linear or lanceolate, acuminate, bases not produced ; pedicels varying in length, upwards 
of 3 cm. when in fruit, clothed with dark-coloured spreading hairs; calyx 6 mm. long, 
divided half-way down into 5 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate lobes, green-mealy inside. 
enlarging in fruit, and with wide sinuses; corolla about 6 mm. across, its tube longer 
than the calyx; lobes obcordate ; anthers sessile, attached below the middle of the 
corolla-tube, ovate, acute; ovary globose, depressed at the summit; style longer than the 
ovary; capsule globose, included within the calyx; szeds minute, oval, compressed, with 
a winged appendage at either end, 
N.-W. Himataya: Hazara, оп wet rocks in the Siran and Касап valleys, at eleva- 
tions between 4,509 and 6,000 feet (Herb. Nos. 19919, 21974); discovered by Inayat 
Khan, of the Botanical Department of N. India. 
A very distinct species, approaching P. obtusifolia Royle, and P. elongata Watt. 
Only one specimen was found with the remains of flowers, the colour of which was 
not recognizible in the driel specimen. Its flowering season is probably during 
the late autumn. I have much pleasure in naming this species after my head plant 
collector, Inayat Khan, whose intelligence and enthusiasm have resulted in the discovery 
of several other new and rare plants in various parts of Northern India. Some 
diminutive single-flowered specimens, about 4 cm, high only, were gathered in the 
Siran Valley. 
Puare 61. Primula Inayati Duthie. Portion of a plant,—of natural size. 1, a flower; 2, corolla, 
laid open; 3, calyx, laid open, showing the young capsule; 4, ripe capsule, enclosed in calyx; 5, seed,— 
all enlarged. 
J. F. D. 
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64. PRIMULA HAZARICA Duthie, 
Natural order Primulacesze. 
Height of plant up to 18 сш.; rootstock perennial; leaves 1:2 to 7:5 cm. long 
and 7 to 19 mm. wide, obovate or spathulate, tapering into the more or less broadly 
winged petiole, thin, green above, white-mealy beneath, denticulate; veins conspicuous 
on the under surface, curving upwards in forks and terminating in the marginal teeth; 
scape firm, up to 8 cm. long; flowers 1—many, in umbels, di-morphic; bracts linear, 
up to 7 mm. long, erect or reflexed at the apex, their bases not produced, minutely 
ciliate along the margin ; pedicels slender, varying in length, up to 25 mm., spreading 
or recurved and elongating in fruit; сауа 5—7 mm. long, cleft to or below the middle; 
lobes erect, lanceolate, acuminate, minutely ciliate; corolla bright purple, about 17 
Any. Вот. Bor. Garp. Catc., Vor. ІХ, 
--— ws oa am, Дым 
