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190 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF PRIMULA. 
placenta parva discoidea longe stipitata. Semina cuboidea 
circ. r mm. diam. helvola longe vesiculoso-tuberculata 
Species Sectionis Bellae foliorum forma orbiculari integra 
vel paulo crenulata bene distincta. ; 
“Bhutan. Narim Thang Kurted. Alt. 14,000 ft. Flowers 
large, delicate, purple magenta, solitary. Leaves small, gold 
below, remaining on stem which rambles among scree debris, etc., 
for several inches.””’ R.E. Cooper. No. 4247. 31st July 1915. 
“Bhutan. Singhi. Kurted. Alt. 16,000 ft. Magenta 
flowers. Creeping among glacial debris.” R. E. Cooper. No. 
4973. Sept. 1915. 
We have here a striking new species of the Bella Section, 
differing particularly in foliage and habit from those we already 
know. This is a woody spreading plant of glacial screes at high 
elevation, and its habit, as well as form of leaf, recall particularly 
the features of the Chinese P. dryadifolia, Franch. and P. 
philoresia, Balf. fil. et Ward. It is quite a Dryas-like plant. 
But its flower characters are those of the Bella Section—bracts 
—calyx—corolla. P. indobella, Balf. fil. et W. W. Sm. is the 
only species of the Section known hitherto to occur outside 
China, and P. oreina is therefore an interesting further link 
between the flora of the Himalayan and the Yunnan Alps.” 
Primula plebeia, Balf. fil. (Petiolaris.) 
Parva epilosa rhizomate tenui foliis longe petiolatis. Folia 
ad 7 cm. longa; lamina elliptica vel oblongo-elliptica vel sub- 
rotundata ad 4cm. longa ad 2—2.5 cm. lata membranacea subtus 
pallidior margine sinuato-dentata basi abrupte cuneatim in 
petiolum vix alatum limbo longiorem attenuata utrinque glandu- 
lis globosis brevissime stipitatis videlicet fariniferis sed in speci- 
minibus siccis farinae inopibus conspersa. Scapus ad 5 cm. 
longus foliis brevior vel vix longior tenuis praesertim apicem 
versus cum bracteis pedicellisque glandulis forsan fariniferis 
plus minusve puberulus umbellam 2-4-floram gerens; bracteae 
virides circ. 5 mm. longae pedicellis breviores lineari-lanceolatae 
acutae plus minusve et minutissime ciliatae ; pedicelli ad 8 mm. 
longi stricti graciles superne in anthopodium circ. 1.5 mm. longum 
gradatim incrassati. Flores rosei. Calyx circ. 5 mm. longus 
cupularis laete viridis giandulis forsan fariniferis obscure puber- 
ulus ad medium fissus lobis oblongis apice triangulari-acutis 
integris uninerviis subpatentibus. Corollae tubus in flore brevi- 
stylo infundibularis circ. 7 mm. longus calycem superans in flore 
longistylo circ. 5 mm. longus calyce fere inclusus extus glaber 
intus annulatus erugosus, limbi concavi discus circ. I mm. latus, 
lobi patentes circ. 6 mm. longi obcordati vel obovati profunde 
emarginati. Stamina filamentis distinctis floris brevistyli ad 
