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limestone cafion with pines above it on either side. An interest- 
ing glabrous Givaldiana with small and very fragrant flowers 
of soft clear blue.” July 1914. Farrer and Purdom. No. 2 
P. 23. In Herb. Edin. 
A distinct plant of the Muscarioid Section found first of all 
by Purdom in 1911 when collecting for Veitch. I do not know 
that Veitch raised plants from it. Its nearest ally is the im- 
perfectly described P. cernua, Franch. from which it is readily 
told by its foliage and the flowers with delicate corolla tube 
and cut petals. Purdom’s flowering specimens now in the Kew 
Herbarium are the basis of the description. The specimens 
collected by Farrer and Purdom in rgr4 are in fruit and enable 
me to complete the description. The plant flowered at Edin- 
burghin1rg16. Itisa distinct and pleasing member of its section. 
Primula anisodora, Balf. fil. et Forrest. (Candelabra.) 
Aromatica odore anisi glaberrima efarinosa. Folia ad 2 
dm. longa ad 7 cm. lata elongato-obovata apice obtusa vel 
rotundata membranacea venis haud prominulis argute irregular- 
iter denticulata plus minusve glanduloso-foveolata in petiolum 
alatum vaginantem lamina breviorem attenuata. Scapus ad 6 
dm. altus validus umbellam terminalem et verticillos 3-5 ad 
8-floros gerens; bracteae ad 7 mm. longae lineari-acuminatae 
hydathodo terminatae; pedicelli bracteis duplo longiores a 
basi subnutantes post anthesin erecti aucti. Calyx ad 5 mm. 
longus cupuliformis ad trientem fissus lobis triangulari-ovatis 
nervo prominulo margine membranaceis minute fimbriato- 
erosis fimbriis hydathodo terminatis. Corollae infundibuli- 
formis nigro-purpureae subcrassiusculae tubus ad 9 mm. longus 
aureo-annulatus annulo inaequaliter to-lobato lobis antipetalis 
5 majoribus interpetalis 5 minoribus intus supra stamina 
glanduloso-puberulus infra membranaceus, limbi concavi discus 
vix I mm. latus, lobi breves subquadrati subtruncati imbricati 
erecti ad 3.5 mm. longi ad 5 mm. lati crassi leviter emarginati 
crenulati. Stamina floris brevistyli supra medium tubi corol- 
lini inserta antherarum apicibus ab annulo I mm. remotis 
longistyli fere ad basim corollae antherarum apicibus 4 mm. 
ab annulo. Ovarium globosum; stylus brevis vix calycem 
aequans, longus corollae tubo dimidio brevior; stigma sub- 
globosum. Capsula subglobosa calycem vix auctum paullo 
superans stylopodio nigro-rubro crenulato coronata valvis 5 
dehiscens. 
Species efarinosa, aromatica floribus intense purpureis; a 
P. glycosmate, Petitm. foliis brevioribus, bracteis longioribus, 
corolla nigro-purpurea, lobis petalinis brevibus subquadran- 
gularibus distincta. 
