BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF PRIMULA. 175 
a discoid operculate capsule occupied by a broad convex placenta 
upon which the seeds lie. 
’ Primula ianthina, Balf. fil. et Cave. (Candelabra.) 
Elata epilosa inflorescentia calyceque sulphureo-farinosis 
Folia ad 25 cm. longa ad 5 cm. lata oblonga oblanceolata apice 
rotundata margine venarum hydathodis denticulata deorsum in 
petiolum alatum loriformem vaginantem sensim attenuata ut- 
rinque glanduloso-foveolata subtus pallidiora et secretione flava 
glandulosa plus minusve incrustata. Scapus ad 60 cm. altus 
robustus ad nodos sulphureo-farinosus umbellam plurifloram et 
I-2 verticillos inferos gerens; bracteae ad 7 cm. longae sub 
fructu auctae, a basi lata anguste lanceolatae acuminatae sul- 
phureo-farinosae ; pedicelli ad 1.2 cm. longi sub fructu aucti 
stricti plus minusve sulphureo-farinosi; anthopodium turbina- 
tum conspicuum. Calyx cupulari-campanulatus 5-costatus ad 
5 cm. longus extus dense sulphureo-farinosus intus tubo efarinoso 
lobisque sparsim farinosis ad medium fissus lobis triangulari- 
deltoideis acuminatis hydathodo corneo terminatis costa media 
prominula. Corollae violaceae in flore longistylo tubus I cm. 
longus a staminum insertione infundibuliformis extus glaber 
intus annulatus fauce puberulus, limbi discus 2.mm. latus 
puberulus, lobi obcordati vel rotundati ad 1 cm. diam. emargin- 
ati nunc mucronati. Stamina in flore longistylo basim tubi 
corollini versus supra ovarium inserta, filamentis conspicuis 
deorsum in annulum lobatum interstaminalem expansis, antheris 
ovoideis calyce inclusis. Ovarium globosum; stylus longus 
exsertus ; stigma discoideum. Capsula ovoideo-globosa efari- 
nosa brunnea stylopodio incrassato valvatim sectili et lobulato 
coronata. Semina (? matura) nigricantia 
P. Smithianae, Craib verosimilis floribus violaceis differt. 
Sikkim. Sandakphu. 11,500 ft. Cave. 29th July rogr4. 
In Herb. Edin. 
An interesting plant which we know only in a single speci- 
men collected by Mr. Cave. It is the only violet-flowered 
Candelabra Primula as yet found in Sikkim, and is quite unlike 
any of the other violet or purple-flowered species. 
In the Calcutta Herbarium are three sheets of a Primula in 
fruit, with the label:—‘‘ Primula prolifera, Wall. Sikkim. 
Bhik Bhanjan. Alt. 10,000 ft. Seed Collectors. No. 11,951. 
Oct. 1898.’’ These are not Wallich’s plant. They have 
abundance of yellow meal upon the fruiting calyx, and in this 
resemble the Sikkim P. Smithiana, Craib and P. ianthina. 
There are no flowers. The fruit characters are not those 
of P. Smithiana, but those of P. ianthina, and the foliage 
is also that of the latter species, and Bhik Bhanjan 
