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Many flowers to the scape (which lengthens to about 8 inches in 
fruit), and a secondary tier is often borne, but hardly rises distinct 
above the first : the pedicels are shorter and stiffer than in No. 8 
so that the head is a dome of blossom rather than a rayed 
wheel.” 
“Abundant in half-dry beck-beds of limestone, in red earth 
and ordinary limy loam full of chips, from 12,000 ft. up to the 
highest arétes at 14,000 ft. (where it is most at home, in the 
sharply sloping soil-slides) of the great limestone mountain above 
Siku.” June-July. 
A really fine species. 
Primula oreina, Balf. fil. et Cooper. (Bella.) 
Suffruticosa prostrata epilosa rhizomate lignescente subcrasso 
ramoso repénte foliorum vestigiis siccis dense obtecto. Folia 
petiolata subspathulata parva ad 1.5 cm. longa ; lamina sub- 
carnosula suborbicularis circ. 7 mm. longa et lata margine 
cartilaginea integra vel paulo et regulariter crenulata revoluta 
basi in petiolum aequilongum alatum circ. 3 mm. latum abrupte 
contracta supra atro-viridis glaber laevis venarum reti occulto 
subtus dense aureo-farinosa costa media prominula. Scapus 
tenuis ad 2 cm. longus foliis paulo longior aureo-farinosus flores 
1-2 pedicellatos umbellatim gerens; bracteae 4, inferiores 2 
magnae fertiles cyclicae purpurascentes et farina aurea conspersae 
margine glanduloso-ciliatae plus minusve cucullatae et amplexi- 
caules inaequales externa major circ. 6 mm. longa 5 mm. lata 
subpalmatifida lobis 3 obtusis venisque flabellatim divergentibus 
superiores 2 minores steriles parvulae virides ; pedicelli circ. 3 
mm. longi aureo-farinosi. Calyx poculiformis extus intusque 
(tubo intus excepto) plus minusve aureo-farinosus circ. 6 mm. 
longus purpurascens ultra medium fissus lobis ligulatis integris 
obtusis venula media conspicua glanduloso-ciliatis circ. 2.5 
mm. latis. Corollae lilacinae crassiusculae in flore brevistylo circ. 
1.4 cm. longae tubus cylindricus supra stamina ampliatus circ. 
g mm. longus extus glandulis fariniferis conspersus intus erugosus 
puberulus minute annulatus fauce pilis plurimis ex ore prolatis 
barbatim occlusus, limbi plani plus minusve puberuli discus circ. 
1 mm. latus, lobi obovati circ. 7 mm. longi aperti bifidi segmentis 
divaricatis. Stamina ad medium tubi corollini antheris calycem 
superantibus antherarum apicibus ab annulo circ. 2.5 mm. 
remotis inserta filamentis conspicuis deorsum expansis antheris 
circ. 1.5 mm. longis connectivo fulvo. Ovarium discoideum 
stylopodio lato coronatum ; stylus brevis vix I mm. longus 
calyce multo brevior; stigma parvum discoideum. Capsula 
oblonga crustacea circ. 8 mm. longa calyce intus dense farinoso 
omnino inclusa ab apice valvis 5 saepe 10 brevibus dehiscens ; 
