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the capsule is quite twice the size of that in P. pulchella and 
projects far beyond the calyx 
This pretty little species is now in cultivation from Ward’s 
seeds, and has flowered with Bees Ltd. and also at the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 
Primula nemoralis, Balf. fil. 
Herba multiceps efarinosa foliis floribusque coaetaneis. 
Folia papyracea ad 6 cm. longa ad 2 cm. lata glabra laevia 
sublyrata saepe drepanoidea obtusa irregulariter dentato-lobata 
dentibus latis acutis vel obtusis subtus pallidiora basi nonnun- 
quam subpetiolata. Scapus folia subaequans apice cum pedi- 
cellis bracteisque minutissime puberulus umbellam unam 4-8- 
floram gerens ; bracteae inaequales exteriores ad 9 mm. longae 
pedicellos subaequantes a basi lata lanceolatae obtusae nunc 
apicem versus obscure denticulatae concavae membranaceae 
uninerviae ; pedicelli validi bracteas subaequantes vel eis 
longiores. Calyx subtubulosus saepe plus minusve rubro- 
striatus ad 5 mm. longus 5-nervius ad trientem fissus lobis ovatis 
obtusis minutissime puberulis et ciliatis. Corollae violaceae 
tubus 9 mm. longus annulo lobato luteo instructus intus supra 
stamina puberulus infra membranaceus, lobi ad 6 mm. longi 
obovati bilobuli integri. Floris longistyli antherarum apices ab 
annulo circ. 2.5 mm. remoti, brevistyli ad annulum attingentes. 
Ovarium conoideum; stylus longus tubo corollino brevior, 
brevis calycem subaequans ; stigma breviter cylindricum. 
Species Sectionis Sonchifoliae bracteis longis concavis mem- 
branaceis distinguenda 
unnan. Ou Kia. In moist woods. Alt. gooo ft. Leaves . 
soft. Flowers violet. Coll. E. E. Maire. In Herb. Edin. 
ot far removed, I think, from P. stnuata, Franch.* The 
leaf outline in the two plants is not quite the same, as I judge 
from Franchet’s very short description and from a_ photo- 
graph of a Paris sheet of Franchet’s type. The inflorescence 
has more flowers, and the scape is stouter and pedicels longer 
in Maire’s plant. The bracts too are much larger and more 
- involucrate in P. nemoralis, Balf. fil. Franchet’s plant is so 
little known that I cannot write about its affinities with the 
confidence I would like. But I have ample grounds for saying 
that P. sinwata, Franch., has no place in the Soldanelloid Section 
of Primula alongside of P. Wattit, King where Pax places it. 
Pax had not seen the plant and gives it its position on the 
strength of Franchet’s comment that its leaves are like those of 
P. Waitii, King; but then Franchet adds the form of corolla 
and that of the calyx are very different in the two plants. 
_ * Franchet in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, i (1895), 65. 
