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BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF PRIMULA. 201 
Watt’s field notes I may quote further. The plant hasa “ stem 
short erect surrounded by broad scales 1 inch in diameter, and 
14 to 3 inches long, coated with yellow farina. The leaves are 
sessile oblong spathulate, broadly speaking, or ovate oblong 
sheathing subacute erose 3-4 inches long, never more than half 
the length of the peduncle. Peduncle mealy at extremity and 
generally present but, as in the English primrose, often wanting, 
the pedicels being then very long. Bracts forming a whorl not 
spurred ovate acuminate closely adpressed to pedicels and about 
half the length. Calyx large wide loose dark brown prominently 
angled half cleft into 5 linear subobtuse sepals mealy in sinus. 
Pedicels mealy at union with calyx. Flowers large, 1 inch in 
diameter and tube 3 inch, pink purple with dark purple ring 
around the yellow mouth. Corolla tube inflated upwards twice 
the length of calyx ; limb flat rotate very broad oblong obtuse 
very slightly emarginate throat constricted by a yellow annulus 
of from 5-10 irregular though prominent teeth less prominent 
in the short-styled forms. Ovary globose completely hid within 
the loose calyx.” 
It is fortunate that we have this comprehensive field note by 
Sir George Watt, recording his observation of two forms which 
the plant exhibits—a caulescent and an acaulescent—for isolated 
dried specimens might otherwise have been misleading. The 
scapeless state—which may have the name var. acaulescens—is 
one of the suppression of the scape accompanied by elongation 
of the pedicels and also of the subtending leaves, bringing about 
the condition which occurs in P. acaulis, in contrast with that of 
P. elatior or with that of the caulescent forms of P. acaulis 
which correspond with the normal state of P. Roylet. 
In its typical state P. Royle: is recognised from its near ally 
P. Gammieana of Eastern Sikkim and Tibet by the broad 
persistent farinose leaf-scales beneath the foliage rosette, by 
the absence of long petioles in the flowering stage, by thicker 
leathery leaves, by the shorter flower pedicels which do not 
thicken so much under the fruit, by the less woody calyx 
under the fruit and its longer pointed lobes, by the narrower 
hardly woody placental stipe, and by the smaller seeds. 
Primula strumosa, Balf. fil. et Cooper. (Elongata.) 
Planta epilosa rhizomate parvo follisque plus minusve erectis 
yaginis longis suffultis. Folia petiolata corlacea yel sub- 
carnosula longe petiolata ad 10 cm, longa; lamina oblanceolata 
vel sublanceolata ad 4.5 cm. longa 2 cm. lata deorsum in peti- 
olum vaginantem longum erectum membranaceo-alatum erubes- 
centem sensim attenuata apice obtusa vel rotundata margine 
leviter subcartilaginea irregulariter crenato-denticulata utrinque 
