62 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF PRIMULA. 
N.W. China. Kansu, in Northern Peling. Alt. 10,000- 
12,000 ft. Fenwick Owen. Raised from seed in April 1914 
by R. W. Woodward, jun., Esq., of Arley Castle. 
Mr. Woodward has been so kind as to present a living seedling 
plant of this species to the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 
It has lived through the critical seasonal period of Primula life, 
and we may hope therefore to learn more of it when it flowers in 
another season. 
t the Primula Conference in 1913 I gave some rough 
statistics for the purpose of showing the rapid increase during 
preceding years in the number of known species of Primula, 
and I predicted even more rapid addition in the near future. 
The fifty new species described in these pages fulfil the predic- 
tion, and I may add that descriptions of as many more will 
appear in early forthcoming numbers of these ‘“ Notes.’’ Most 
of the species here published we owe to recent exploration of 
N.W. China by Forrest, Kingdon Ward, Farrer, and Purdom, 
and of Eastern Himalaya by Cooper ; but a considerable number 
are an outcome of revision of the rich material gathered by 
previous collectors and now preserved in the public Herbaria 
at Kew, Calcutta, and Edinburgh. I have to thank the 
Director of Kew for the facilities I have had for examining the 
Kew collections. To Major Gage, Director of the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Calcutta, I am particularly indebted for his 
kindness in lending me for examination the unique series of 
specimens of Indian species belonging to the Calcutta Herbarium. 
Mr. W. W. Smith’s co-operation has brought to the diagnosis 
of Indian species his great knowledge of Indian Primulas de- 
rived from observation of the species in the field, and to Mr. 
W. G. Craib of Kew I am no less indebted for help and 
criticism. 
