188 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF PRIMULA. 
lini (antheris vix calycis tubum aequantibus) inserta. Ovarium 
breviter oblongum ; stylus longus vix calycem aequans, brevis. 
vix calycis tubum aequans: stigma parvum cylindricum lobula- 
tum. Capsula cylindrica circ. 2 cm. longa et 4 mm. lata pallide 
straminea nitida muro subpaleaceo haud incrassato calycem 
tenuem haud auctum vix dimidio excedens apice dentibus 5 
concoloribus brevibus saepe fissis dehiscens; placenta cylin- 
drico-claviformis sessilis circ. 8 mm. longa. Semina oblonga 
angulata paullo spongiosa subcomplanata circ. 1.75 mm. longa 
fusco-brunnea. 
Species Sectionis Nivalis bene distincta. 
“ Kansu. Probably this is a variety or subspecies of P. No. 
22 which is much stouter in growth, with leaves upstanding, 
revolute, of dark leathery green gloss, and with an invariable 
definite band of silver powder round their under margin, this 
being very rarely present in P. No. 10, where leaves are also 
explanate, more outlying, and of a bright emerald gloss. In 
both plants the capsule is very much as in P. Maximowiczit, 
a far-protruding chaffy-pale cylinder, transparent towards the 
flat top. Both inhabit bare solitary places in the red or yellow 
loam of the very topmost slopes and arétes only, from 12,000- 
14,000 ft., among the shingle, and both stand off from P. nivalis 
in their lack of any long stock, or any stock at all, as in their 
healthy matted masses of white fibres, thrown off from abund- 
ant tough main roots of red.’’ Farrer et Purdom. June 1914. 
F322..: P..No,.20; 
Mr. Farrer says also :—‘‘ Primula No. ro (Section Nivalis, but 
very distinct) (P. ‘ opiata’). Very much more charming than 
No. 8, and promising better, having no long stock, and being 
much more abundant in its zone of distribution. The leaves 
develop while the scape breaks into flower, at 3-4 inches: they 
are explanate and scarcely revolute, bright lucent green, obovate 
lanceolate, shorter, broader, more rounded and splayed out than 
in No. 8, set with regular sharp triangular teeth, diminishing to 
a + marked petiole, powderless below, but often dusted with 
farina on the upper face, and round the dentation of the younger 
leaves. Scape densely white, farinose, bracts narrow lanceolate, 
dark, pointed, about 4-5 mm. + = the pedicels. Calyx purple, 
farinose, densely so within, and outlined without, the lobes rather 
more than half its length, oval lanceolate, tube exceeding the 
calyx: limb cupuliform or like a shallow saucer (not a flat star, 
as in No. 8) scantily powdered on the outside at the base of the 
throat : lobes broadly ovate or obovate (ampler and larger than 
in No. 8) emarginate and sometimes toothed: ofa lovely melting 
lavender blue, with a darker eye, and a strong sweet Primula 
fragrance overlaid by a yet stronger one of cupboards and mice. 
