BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF PRIMULA. 3 
Ovarium globosum stylopodio non coronatum; stylus brevis 
vix calycem aequans, longus corollae tubo vix brevior ; stigma 
capitatum purpureum lobulatum. Capsula magna ad 1.7 cm. 
longa calyce  duplo-longior cylindrica crustacea extus longi- 
tudinaliter striata erubescens ab apice valvis 5-10 incrassatis 
dehiscens. Semina angulata subrhomboidea ad I mm. diam. ; 
testa brunnea spongiosa. 
Ex affinitate minus cognitae P. reflexae, Petitm. sed verti- 
cillis pluribus multifloris, bracteis basi non sacciformibus, calyce 
non nigro-striato, limbo corollino plano, lobis non rotundatis 
differt. 
Yunnan :—Open mountain pasture on mountains of the 
Chungtien plateau. Alt. 11,000 ft. Lat. 27° 55’ N. Plant of. 
24-30 inches. Flowers bright yellow with a satiny sheen on 
‘ exterior. G. Forrest. No. 10,687. July 1913; No. 11,284. 
Sept. 1913. In fruit. In Herb. Edin. 
A magnificent species. It finds it nearest Chinese allies 
undoubtedly in P. orbicularis, Hemsley and P. reflexa, Petitm. 
These agree according to descriptions in having orbicular petals, 
and by that character should be at once diagnosed from P 
aemula, Balf. fil. et Forrest. P. orbicularis, Hemsley is also 
a farinose species, which P. aemula, Balf. fil. et Forrest is not, 
and P. reflexa, Petitm. has reflexed petals as in P. szechuanica, 
Pax—a character not found in P. aemula, Balf. fil. et Forrest. 
P. orbicularis, Hemsl. was discovered by Wilson in the region 
about Tatsien-lu, and from seed collected by him it was raised 
by Veitch & Sonin1g06. The plant was figured in the Botanical 
Magazine under tab. 8135, and a dried specimen of the cultivated 
plant So preserved in the Kew Herbarium marked “ Wilson 
3003A I have not seen in any collection a native specimen 
Sy 3003A, and, as the plant has died out of cultivation, this 
dried cultivated specimen is probably the only material re- 
presentation of it. I have compared it with Forrest’s plant 
here described, and there is no doubt about their distinctness. 
P. reflexa, Petitm. is a more difficult subject with which to 
make comparison, as the species is little known. But Petit- 
mengin’s description is inapplicable to Forrest’s plant con- 
spicuously as regards the vegetative apparatus which is alto- 
gether different from that of P. sikkimensis, Hook.—which 
P. refiexa, Petitm. is said to resemble,—and then the saccate 
bracts of P. reflexa, Petitm. ought to separate it readily from 
P. aemula, Balf. fil. et Forrest. 
Another yellow-flowered species, P. tsetzouenensis, Petitm. 
is described as having leaves cordiform at base and also saccate 
bracts—characters which do not suit P. aemula, Balf. fil. et 
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