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182 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF PRIMULA. 
bract—the outer ones particularly—expands more or less into 
_ an incised green laminar portion. Then the calyx is cut deeply 
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to far below the middle, the segments—long linear-lanceolate— 
are adpressed to the red corolla tube which they exceed in length 
and each of them ends in a rounded hydathodal knob. 
I have described the plant from two sets of specimens distri- 
buted from the Paris Herbarium under the number 1181 of 
Farges’ collecting. One of these sets in the herbarium of Kew 
and also of Edinburgh is named P. japonica, A. Gray ; the other, 
in the herbarium of Kew and also of M. Gustav Bonati of Lure, 
is named P. angustidens, Pax. Under P. stenodonta, Balf. fil. 
I shall explain the constitution of P. angustidens, and need say 
no more here. From P. japonica the characters of the bracts 
and of the calyx of P. mallophylla are decisively diagnostic. 
The calyx character is one indeed that separates it from all 
others in the Candelabra Section. The calyx segments are 
either shorter than, or barely equal to, the calyx tube in these ; 
in P. mallophylla they are twice as long. Long bracts occur in 
the yellow-flowered P. imperialis, Jungh. and P. Bulleyana, 
G. Forrest ; but in neither of these are they so long relatively 
to the whole flower as in P. mallophylia, nor have they the 
laminar expansion at the end of the bract. DP. chrysochlora, 
Balf. fil. et Ward, P. helodoxa, Balf. fil. et Forrest, and P. 
prolifera, Wall. have long bracts, to which reference is made 
under these species. The species stands apart by itself in the 
section in which there is no doubt it is rightly placed. 
e appearance of the plant in herbarium specimens seems 
to indicate that it is a desirable species for our gardens. 
Primula Menziesiana,* Balf. fil. et W.W.Sm. (Muscarioides.) 
Rosulata glanduloso-pubescens efarinosa floribus exceptis. 
Folia patentia ad 3.5 cm. longa petiolata ; lamina circ. 2 cm 
longa 1.3 cm. lata elliptica circumcirca pilis longis simplicibus 
glandulosis cincta apice rotundata margine regulariter crenata 
(cum denticulis paucis hydathodo. conspicuo terminatis) basi 
in petiolum ad 1.5 cm. longum paullo alatum glanduloso-pilosum 
infra subexpansum vix vaginatum abrupte contracta utrinque 
laete viridis glanduloso-pubescens costa media et venis ._primariis 
paucis utrinsecus circ. 6 pinnatim patulis supra sulcatis subtus 
elevatis subrugulosa. Scapus ad 8 cm. longus viridis glanduloso- 
pubescens capitulum florum radiatim patentium subdeflexorum 
gerens ; bracteae externae virides deflexae ligulatae calycem 
aequantes margine lacteo-farinosae internae erectae haud 
* The specific name is given to keep in memory Private Alan Menzies, 5th 
tt. Cameron Highlanders, a young gardener of the staff of the Royal Botanic 
eck Edinburgh, who fell in action at Loos on 25th September 1915. 
