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4. Primula bellidifolia, King. 
The plant, which has bluish-purple flowers and grows in 
Sikkim, seems never to have been cultivated. 
5. Primula Watsoni, Dunn. Sp. nov. Plate lxi. 
Herba perennis. Folia sessilia rosulata, oblanceolata, obtusa, 
basi longe attenuata, 7-15 cm. longa, praeter basin crebre regular- - 
iter lobulato-crenata, membranacea, in venis dense cetero sparse 
-hirsuta, efarinosa. Scapus strictus, 10-30 cm. altus, glaber, apice 
farinosus, capitulum globosum vel spicam ovatam gerens. Flores 
sessiles, 8-12 mm. longi, bracteis lanceolatis 4mm.longis. Calyx 
late campanulatus basi farinosus 2-3 mm. longus; dentes 5 paullo 
irregulares tubum aequantes, late ovati, margine ciliati. Corolla 
glabra atropurpurea ; tubus cylindricus, 7-10 mm. longus, 1°5 mm. 
latus ; limbus cupularis, 3-4 mm. latus; lobi 5, 2 mm. longi et 
lati, truncati vel retusi. Capsula ovalis, 4 mm. longa. 
Probably all from the elevated woodlands among the high 
mountains round Ta-tsien-lu in W. Szechuen, Pratt, 252 (part), 
Soulié, 152, Wilson, 4036. 
The species which has recently been introduced into cultiva- 
tion has its deep purple flowers relieved by the bright yellow 
powdery coating of its scapes and inflorescence. 
[The seeds were sent in 1908 to the Royal Botanic Garden, 
Edinburgh, by Mr. C. Watson, Solicitor, Annan, Dumfriesshire. 
They were collected by his son, Mr. Charles Marson Watson, 
after whom the species is named, at Ta-tsien-lu, at an_elevation 
of 10,000 ft. The plant flowered at Edinburgh in summer of the 
year I9II, as did also Primula deflexa, Duthie, raised from seed 
received from the same source and at the same time. ] 
6. Primula pendulifiora, Petitm., in Le Monde des Plantes, x 
(xt 
Delavay, 3826. Not yet in cultivation, but in consequence 
of its large (for the group) deep purple flowers, probably one of 
the finest of the capitate Primulas. 
7. Primula Littoniana, Forrest. Bot. Mag., t. 8341. 
Forrest, 2655. Few new discoveries have received such 
immediate or such well-merited recognition. It is not five 
years since Forrest first saw it growing in moist alpine meadows 
in N.-W. Yunnan, and he not only secured excellent photographs 
of it upon the spot, but brought home dried specimens and seeds, 
