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mealy’’). Its larger size, want of an annulus, petals not re- 
flexing readily, distinguish it however from P. tibetica, Watt. 
It might be regarded as a North-West Himalayan representa- 
tive of P. tibetica, Watt. On the single specimen available 
for examination the long pedicels of one of the flowers bears 
at a short distance below the flower a pair of bracts. This 
suggested that the specimen might be throughout abnormal 
and only a short-scaped variation of P. involucrata, Wall. or 
a long-pedicelled and. large-flowered P. tibetica, Watt or even 
a P. sibirica, Jacq. modified. The chain of characters in the 
plant is such however that one cannot regard the suggestion 
as valid. One must hope for more specimens. 
Primula taraxacoides, Balf. fil. 
Herba glabra aspectu Taraxaci collo squamis membranaceis 
plus minusve farinosis persistentibus alabastri hiemalis vestita 
foliis floribusque coaetaneis. Folia ad 8 cm. longa ad 3 cm. 
lata membranacea lyrata pinnatifido-runcinata lobis triangulari- 
bus inciso-dentatis apice acutis basi in petiolum alatum at- 
tenuata. Scapus robustus foliis brevior sub fructu haud auctus 
superne saepe sparsim farinosus umbellam 8—12-floram gerens ; 
| bracteae triangulares acutae basi subgibbosae subfarinosae ad 
5 mm. longae pedicellis multo breviores ; pedicelli ad 1.4 cm. 
longi sparsim farinosi vel efarinosi. Calyx ad 5 mm. longus 
subpoculiformis sparsim glandulosus accrescens lobis ad 1.5 
mm. longis triangularibus vel ovatis vel subrotundatis apicu- 
latis. Corollae violaceae tubus 1 cm. longus annulatus, lobi 
7 mm. longi late obovati vel rotundati retusi margine breviter 
dentati. Capsula globosa calyce inclusa. 
A P. sonchifolia, Franch. ambitu foliorum, scapo _ foliis 
breviore, corolla minore differt. 
Yunnan. Rocks of Malong. Alt. gooo ft. Leaves of Leon- 
todon. Flowers violet. Coll. E. E. Maire. In Herb. Edin. 
We have yet to learn much of the forms of and allied to 
P. sonchifolia, Franch. This plant seems to have well-marked 
characteristics within an aggregate of which Franchet’s plant 
is the type. 
Primula Traillii, Watt, in Journ. R.H.S. xxix (1904), p. 299. 
Epilosa; rhizoma breve crassum alabastro magno albo- 
farinoso coronatum folia magna vaginantia petiolata gerens 
et vestigiis foliorum anni praeteriti obtectum. Folia ad 25 cm. 
longa ; lamina membranacea elliptica vel oblonga vel obovato- 
oblonga 8-14 cm. longa 3-6 cm. lata apice rotundata margine 
plus minusve denticulata basi gradatim in petiolum ‘crassum 
laminam aequantem vel ea longiorem basi vagina longa 
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