202 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF PRIMULA. 
glandulis plus minusve pulverulenta efarinosa supra laevis 
atro-purpurea vix venulosa subtus pallidior costa media elevata 
caeteroquin obscure reticulato-venulosa. Scapus ad 18 cm. 
altus validus infra glandulis fariniferis conspersus nunc erubescens 
apicem versus atro-purpureus et aureo-farinosus umbellam ad 
8-floram floribus nutantibus gerens; bracteae atro-purpureae 
aureo-farinosae a basi lata lanceolatae acutae cucullatae carinatae 
basi extus pulvinatim incrassatae; pedicelli ad 1 cm. longi 
atro-purpurei aureo-farinosi nutantes ; anthopodium turbinatum 
magnum ad 2 mm. longum. Calyx crasse coriaceus campanu- 
latus circ. 5 mm. longus atro-purpureus extus intusque aureo- 
farinosus ad medium fissus tubo angulato lobis ovatis vel oblongis 
obtusis. Corollae aureae aurantiaco-oculatae tubus in flore 
longistylo circ. 1.2 cm. longus infra cylindricus angustus supra 
stamina ampliatus extus plus minusve aureo-farinosus intus 
erugulosus annulatus annulo aurantiaco lobulato-crenulato, limbi 
discus circ. 2 mm. latus dense pubescens, lobi subrotundati vel 
oblongi circ. 8 mm. longi crenulati. Stamina in flore longistylo 
basim tubi corollini versus inserta ultra calycem prolata filamentis 
validis deorsum expansis strumis corollinis inter se conjunctis, 
antheris ad 2 mm. longis luteis connectivo fulvo. Ovarium 
globosum ; stylus longus tenuis corollae tubo brevior ; stigma 
cylindricum angustum ab annulo 2.5 mm. remotum. 
Species P. elongatae, Watt affinis sed foliis subtus efarinosis, 
calycis lobis brevibus obtusis, corollae tubo breviore, staminibus 
strumoso-conjunctis diversa 
Bhutan. Champa Pumthang. Alt. 14,000 ft. Flowers 
yellow, golden eye. Inflorescence yellow-mealy. Open turf 
among boulders. R. E. Cooper. No. 4072. 24th June 1915. 
None of the writers on Indian Primulas has made clear the 
character limits of P. elongata, Watt, a species which collectors 
have mixed up with P. sikkimensis, Hook., with P. Stuartii, 
Wall., and with P. obtustfolia, Royle. I shall give elsewhere a 
critical account of P. elongata. Here I need only say that 
it is separated by abundant characters from the three species 
with which it has been confused, and that we know of it now from 
Bhutan as well as from Sikkim. The plant I am describing here 
recalls P. elongata in habit and size and also in colour of 
flower but wants the mealiness—very characteristic in form— 
of the under surface of the leaf; the calyx is much smaller and 
the lobes are obtuse and have a different venation; and the 
stamens have at their base swollen cushions of the corolla 
joining: them and forming a sort of second ann 
