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176 CRAIB—NEW SPECIES OF PRIMULA. 
Upper Burma. Taping Valley. Lat. 24°30’ N. Alt. 3500 ft. 
Plant of 6-15 inches. Flowers lavender-blue. Boggy situations 
by streams. G. Forrest, 13643. Fl. et Fr. April 1917. 
Hpimaw Hill. 7ooo-gooo ft. Abundant over all the 
brackened slopes, from the base of Hpimaw hill to gooo ft. 
Already passing into seéd on roth April, it still, on some banks, 
made drifts as densely blue as scabious on a Yorkshire fell-side 
in August. No scent, or. very little. Completely efarinose 
except at the umbel. R. G. Farrer, 823. FI., 11th April 1919, 
The plants forwarded by Farrer contain short-styled flowers, 
These were wanting at the time that the description was drawn 
up from the Taping plant. In the short-styled flower the 
style is completely included in the calyx and the stamens are 
completely exserted. 
Primula macropoda, Craib (Petiolaris). 
Rhizoma crassum, lignosum, radices numerosas fibrosas 
emittens. Folia omnia basalia, elliptica vel oblongo-elliptica, 
apice rotundata, saepe late retusa, basi cuneata breviterve 
acuminata, usque ad 8.5 cm. longa et 5 cm. lata rigide chartacea, 
Supra costa nervisque pallescentibus exceptis viridia, costa 
basem versus pilis paucis longis transverse septatis ornata, 
subtus pallidiora, ad costam nervosque laterales pilosa, nervulis 
pubescentia puberulave, praetereaque pagina utraque ppilis 
brevibus inconspicuis capitatis farini-potentibus sparse instructa, 
nervis lateralibus utrinque 8-10 supra conspicuis subtus cum 
costa prominentibus, nervulis rete laxum subtus prominulum 
vel fere prominens formantibus, margine saepe anguste recurva, 
hydathodo-denticulata sed haud rarius imam basem versus 
pauci-lobulata, breviter ciliata; petioli ad 9 cm. longi, apice 
mina decurrente anguste alati, pilis longis transverse septatis 
tecti praetereaque pilis brevibus inconspicuis capitatis subsparse 
instructi. Pedunculi communes solitarii, infructescentes circa 
17 cm. alti, indumento ei petiolorum simili sed nisi summo apice 
conspicue Sparsiore tecti, virides, circa 7-flori; bracteae plus 
minusve lanceolatae, circa 7 mm. longae, brunneae vel exteriores 
medio virides et marginem versus brunneae, ciliolatae, dorso 
medio sparsim breviter pilosae ; pedicelli 15-22 mm. longi, 
Superne incrassati, recti, sparse breviter pilosi et pilis brevibus 
farini-potentibus inconspicuis instructi. Calycis infructescentis 
viridis tubus circa 7 mm. longus, indumento ei pedicellorum 
simili dorso tectus, lobi circa 5.5 mm. longi et 3.5 mm. lati, 
ciliolati, 5-nervil, nervis rectis vel subrectis apice haud anastomo- 
santibus. Corolla ignota. Capsula in calycis tubo inclusa, 
seminibus angulatis reticulatis. 
Szechwan, Pratt, 346, Henry, 8860 (Herb. Kew). 
