22 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF PRIMULA. 
from P. rosea, Royle and names it P. Harrissii, Watt in his 
herbarium now at Edinburgh. In his account of Indian Primulas 
to the Royal Horticultural Society * he refers to it by name 
as an undescribed species, and nowhere has it been described. 
I have therefore described it above and add that it is one of 
the microforms of the aggregate P. rosea, Royle, distinguished 
from the type plant by its less stature and the smaller mould 
of allits parts. Also it is apparently not precocious, as P. rosea, 
Royle is. 
P. rosea, Royle exhibits several distinct microforms in its 
wide distribution over the N.W. Himalaya. It was first de- 
scribed and figured by Royle + in 1839 in specimens collected 
at Kedarkante. Five years later Duby f included the species 
in his monograph and described under the name P. elegans, Duby, 
a plant—No. 508 of Jacquemont’s in the Paris Herbarium— 
which he recognised as being near P. rosea, Royle—‘* An revera 
distincta?”’ Sir Joseph Hooker § cites P. elegans, Duby, as a 
variety of P. rosea, Royle distinguishing it by its “corolla 
smaller, tube longer, lobes narrower.’’ Pax || merges P. elegans, 
Duby in P. rosea, Royle. A curious history attaches to these 
two forms, P. rosea, Royle and P. elegans, Duby. In 1879 Sir 
Joseph Hooker figured in the Botanical Magazine (1879), tab. 
6437 under the name P. rosea, Royle a plant which had just 
been introduced to cultivation raised from seeds collected by 
Dr. Aitchison, ‘‘ which were widely distributed, and from which, 
I believe, all the plants hitherto cultivated have been grown. 
We received the first flowering specimen from Mr. Ware of 
Tottenham ; a few days afterwards it flowered at Kew and in 
many other collections. It is quite an alpine species. Thomson 
gathered it at 10,000 ft., and Griffith found it in Afghanistan in 
snow ravines at II,000 ft. Dr. Aitchison has sent dried speci- 
mens of what is either a larger form or distinct species from a 
much lower level, 500 ft. at Gulmarz in Kashmir, and these have 
much larger obovate oblong and sharply toothed leaves with 
rounded apices.’”’ In Kew Herbarium is a sheet of Aitchison’s 
Gulmarz specimens—Aitchison, No. 7. On the sheet is the fol- 
lowing note by Aitchison: ‘‘See Bot. Mag. tab. 6437. The 
seeds for raising which were collected from the same locality 
at Gulmarz.” This tells us that the plant figured in the Botanical 
Magazine, tab. 6437, is really the larger form which Sir Joseph 
Hooker suggested might be a distinct species and not the true 
P. rosea, Royle. 
* Watt, Observations on Indian Primulas in Journ. R.H.S. xxix (1904), 299. 
t Royle, Ilustr. (1839), 311, t. 75, fig. 1 : 
t Duby, in DC. Prod. viii (1844), 41. 
5 Hook. f. in Fl. Brit. In. iii (1882), 488. 
|| Pax, Primulaceae in Engler’s re eae (1905), 
