20 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF PRIMULA. 
are straight and anastomose in characteristic fashion. Here 
n P. Gageana the veins are all undulate and run out through 
the lobes with hardly an anastomosis. The species is one well 
worthy of being searched for. It should be a pretty species 
for cultivation. The roots indicate that the plant grows in a 
habitat where there is an abundance of soil moisture. 
Primula glandulifera, Balf. fil. et W. W. Sm. 
Pusilla caespitosa corolla excepta glanduloso-puberula. Folia 
petiolata ad 2 cm. longa; lamina ad 7 mm. lata petiolo brevior 
elliptica vel oblongo-elliptica vel subobcuneata apice rotundata 
circumcirca obtuse serrato-dentata deorsum in petiolum alatum 
gradatim attenuata. Scapus validus ad 5 mm. longus flores 
2-4 sessiles pro planta magnos gerens; bracteae ligulatae 
sursum attenuatae 4-5 mm. longae obtusae vel obtusiusculae 
ad basin latam paullo inflatae vix gibbosae ; pedicellus nullus. 
Calyx 5-6 mm. longus poculiformis rufo-punctatus fere ad 
basin fissus segmentis lanceolatis obtusis ciliatis. Corollae 
tubus 1 cm. longus exannulatus intus rugosus fauce et limbi 
basi granulosus, lobi 5 mm. longi 4 mm. lati obovati profunde 
emarginati membranacei. Stamina in flore brevistylo supra 
medium tubi corollini inserta. Stylus brevis 1 mm. longus 
calyce multo brevior ; stigma globosum. 
Ex affinitate specierum Sectionis Minutissimae foliis glanduli- 
feris, scapo breve, bracteis subcalycinis, floribus sessilibus, 
distincta. 
Kumaon. Above Napatcha in Kuth Valley. Alt. 13,000 ft. 
Duthie. No. 3137. 13th Sept. 1884. In Herb. Calc. 
Kumaon. Above Dudhpani. About 13,000 ft. J. E. Reid. 
27th July 1886. In Herb. Edin. 
This species is known in a few specimens in the Edinburgh 
Herbarium of a Primula collected, 27th July 1886, by Mr. J. E. 
Reid, C.1.E., above Dudhpani, at’ an altitude of 13,000 ft., 
and marked by him as probably a new species. Sir George 
Watt writes on the sheet bearing Mr. Reid’s specimen: “ This 
is the plant collected by Duthie above Napatcha, 13,000 ft., in 
Kumaon 13.9.84, and named P. near P. elliptica, Royle. It isa 
perfectly good and new species belonging to the Section Denti- 
culata, and is near P. Heydei, Watt. Until carefully — 
it might be mistaken for P. Stivtoniana, Watt, and P. 
tissima, Jacquem. var. spathulata, Hook. f. [P. spathulifolia, 
Craib]. It is also near P. tenelia, King, a much misunderstood 
species from the position of the bract being disregarded.” 
Duthie’s specimen in Calcutta Herbarium, the only other 
known, confirms Sir George Watt’s identification, and also both 
his and Mr. Reid’s comment that the plant is a new species. 
