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192 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF PRIMULA. 
eroso-dentatis, scapo vix ad 15 cm. alto, floribus parvis, corolla 
concava, stylopodio inconspicuo diversa. 
Sikki 
kim. Jongri. 12,000 ft. King’s Collector. June 1888 ; 
‘Gammie. No. 208. 27th June 1891. Flowers yellow. In 
Herb. Calc. 
Sikkim. Near Talung. goooft. Cave. No.108. 16th July 
1906. In open ground, boggy. Flowers yellow, fragrant. In 
Herb. Calc. 
In the Calcutta Herbarium is a series of specimens of three 
different collectings in the neighbourhood of Jongri which show 
a small rosulate plant, said to have yellow flowers by two of the 
collectors. The plant cannot be identified with any described 
species, and is here therefore described. On one of the sheets 
has been written “‘ Primula prolifera, Wall., reduced form.’’ 
This is suggestive. There is little doubt about its being an 
ally of Wallich’s species—but it is not the same. 
Like other Candelabras P. prenantha shows the globose 
glands which give pulverulence, and it may be therefore more 
or less farinose. It recalls in habit the Chinese P. Cockburniana, 
Hemsl. It has, like it, few leaves in the rosette, and probably 
they are patulous in the living plant. The terminal umbel is 
few-flowered, and no more than one whorl of flowers below it 
is ever shown. The stylopod so marked in P. prolifera, Wall. 
and its allies is here not so conspicuous. It is the smallest of 
the Himalayan Candelabras. 
Primula pseudocapitata, F.K. Ward. (Sphaerocephala.) 
Rosulata epilosa rosulis multifoliatis caespitosis rhizomate 
parvo. Folia membranacea floribus coaetanea ad 8 cm. longa 
ad 3 cm. lata oblongo-spathulata vel oblanceolata apice sub- 
rotundata vel subpraemorsa margine irregulariter denticulata 
neque erosa neque crispidenticulata glandulis ciliata deorsum in 
petiolum laminam aequantem alatum alis integris sensim 
attenuata utrinque viridia ac tamen glandulis stipitatis fariniferis 
minutis conspersa supra areolatim sulcata subtus venatione 
prominula intricatim reticulata venis primariis a costa media 
albida arcuatim acute ascendentibus. Scapus teres ad 30 cm. 
altus validus dense albofarinosus umbellam capituliformem 
globosam multifloram gerens ; bracteae albo-farinosae ligulatae 
acutae integrae ad 1.2 cm. longae ad 2 mm. latae floribus juvenili- 
bus longiores calycem sub anthesi subaequantes, exteriores basi 
pulvinatim imcrassatae recurvatae; pedicelli sub anthesi 2 
mm. longi anthopodio obconico abstricto terminati decurvati. 
Calyx albo-farinosus (tubo intus excepto) ad 6. 5 mm. longus 
ultra medium fissus tubo breviter tubuloso 5-angulato, lobis 
ligulatis acutis inaequalibus adpressis apice incurvis :saepe 
