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198 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF PRIMULA. 
in small clusters. Farrer and Purdom. F. 561. Primula No. 
30. June—July Io15. 
Mr. Farrer’s beautifully laid out and pressed specimens from 
Kansu come as a welcome confirmation of my diagnosis from the 
specimens cited above in the Kew Herbarium of this new species. 
Soulié’s specimen No. 879 (there are three sheets) carry the Paris 
name P. tibetica, Watt. Wilson’s specimens are named P. 
pumilio, Maxim. All have been referred to P. pumilio. But 
the species is separable from both P. tibetica and P. pumilio 
by many characters, and if I name here that of the bracts it 
is because it can be appreciated at a glance. In Watt’s and 
Maximowicz’s species these are characteristically saccate at the 
base and are moreover relatively broad and short. In P. 
Reginella there is no saccation ; the anthopodium is large as in 
all this series and the surface layers are somewhat inflated, but 
there is never a sign of any prolongation downwards. In addi- 
tion, in P. Reginella the bracts themselves are long linear nearly 
equalling in length the pedicels. In P. pumilio the bracts are 
quite short, often as broad as long. In P. tibetica they are 
never linear. 
I had drawn up a description of the species under a name of 
my own coinage awaiting publication when Mr. Farrer’s speci- 
mens came along with the happy suggestion of a name, and I 
am pleased to adopt it. 
Primula Roylei, Balf. fil. et W. W. Sm. (Sonchifolia ?) 
P. obtusifolia, Royle var. Roylei, Hook. fil. in Fl. Brit. Ind. iii 
(1862), 489 ; Watt in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx (1884), 8 (ex 
parte). 
P. obtusifolia, Royle in Bot. Mag. (1887), t. 6956; Pax in 
Engler, Monogr. (1905), 118 (ex parte). 
Epilosa farinosa rhizomate parvo radicibus crassis suffulto 
ad collum squamis plurimis imbricatis persistentibus firmis erectis 
ovatis acutis 2.5-8 cm. longis circ. 2.5 cm. latis dense luteo- 
farinosis circumcincta. Folia ad 12 cm. longa sub fructu accre- 
scentia in rosulam congesta ; lamina coriacea oblonga vel fusi- 
formis nonnunquam subspathulata ad g cm. longa ad 4 cm. lata 
apice obtusa margine eroso-denticulata deorsum in petiolum 
brevem latum ligulatum plus minusve membranaceum basi late 
vaginantem lamina multo breviorem attenuata infra pallidior 
utrinque granulosa glandulis brevissime stipitatis et capitatis 
fariniferis (in speciminibus siccis farina vix manifesta est et 
glandulae quasi puncta rubra sese ostendunt) praedita costa 
media lata elevata utrinque conspicua venisque primariis occultis 
percursa. Scapus plerumque validus plus minusve luteo-fari- 
nosus ad 20 cm. longus (sub fructu multo elongatus) umbellam 
