BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF PRIMULA. 179 
for the dried material which botanists have had for study has 
not been ample, is unless exceptionally well preserved difficult to 
analyse, and indeed in the drying process loses certain distinctive 
characters. The plant has been in cultivation at Edinburgh for 
several years, raised from seed presented by the Calcutta Garden 
under the name P. capitata. It has flowered recently and the 
living plants have furnished the evidence which makes clear 
its distinctness from P. capitata. The vegetative parts furnish 
a distinguishing mark in the bright red sheath at the base of 
the leaves and in the creamy farina on the under side of the 
leaf, The upper surface too never is densely farinose, only 
slightly sprinkled with meal. The inflorescence is much smaller, 
quite globose, and the flowers have a much smaller corolla. 
Protected from winter damp the plant thrives from year to year, 
but is apt to die off during the winter if exposed to wet. It is an 
interesting member of the series of forms that range around 
P. capitata. Only two sets of collectors’ specimens are cited 
above. Of their identity there is certainty. But doubtless many 
specimens from Sikkim now in herbaria under the name of 
P. capitata are this plant. 
Primula Littledalei, Balf. fil. et Watt. (Rotundifolia.) 
Planta habitu Potentillae pulvinatim caespitosa rhizomate 
crasso elongato radices rubicundas plurimas emittente foliorum 
scaporumque vestigiis siccis intertextis obtecto petiolis ligulatis 
in siccitate inter se contortis et circum scapos strictos plus 
minusve volutis. Gemmae squamis persistentibus elongato-acu- 
minatis farinosis praeditae. Folia plurima longe petiolata ad 
8 cm. longa sub fructu ad 12 cm. aucta ; lamina subcarnosula 
rotundato-cordata plus minusve cucullata circ. 3 cm. diam. 
dentibus marginalibus triangularibus subaequalibus acutis 
hydathodo terminatis notata lobis basalibus rotundatis vel 
subtruncatis integris sinu aperto vel subclauso supra laete 
viridis puberula glandulis subviscidis conspersa subtus glandulis 
fariniferis dense vestita; petiolus tenuis circ. 5 cm. longus 
sub fructu longior complanatus subcanaliculatus farinosus 
deinde glaber erubescens angustissime alatus in vaginam tandem 
fuscam persistentem expansus. Scapus foliis immersus circ. 
5 cm. longus sub fructu longior farinosus umbellam ad 8-floram 
gerens ; bracteae lineari-lanceolatae acuminatae farinosae basi 
leviter pulvinatim incrassatae costa singula conspicua ; pedicelli 
filiformes farinosi vix I cm. longi sub fructu aucti ; anthopodium 
turbinatum parvum. Calyx subcampanulatus circ. 6 mm. 
longus farinosus ultra medium fissus lobis anguste ligulatis 
acutiusculis vel obtusis vix 1.5 mm. latis margine ciliolatis. 
Corollae flavae tubus in flore brevistylo cylindricus supra stamina 
