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these and the lobes of the calyx, in having occasionally two umbels, 
in the larger number and semi-pendulous habit of the flowers, the 
gradual expansion of the corolla tube, the yellow colour of the 
corolla, and the irregular margins of the lobes. 
A bardy and graceful alpine, with large flowers beautifully shaded 
from pale sulphur to orange yellow. It is a lover of shady pine 
forests at the highest altitudes, on the margins of which it forms 
scattered colonies. Soil free and stony, but not moist. 
Primula (Cankrienia) Poissonii, Franch. Pax, Monog., p. 128. 
In moist places, generally bog, in the Lichiang and Hoching 
valleys. Plant of 1-24 ft. Flowers deep rose. Lat. 26°-27° 30’ N. 
Alt. 7,000-9,000 ft. September, 1904. N.W. Yunnan, China. G. 
Forrest. No. 355. 
Plant of 1-2 ft. Flowers deep purplish-crimson, eye orange, 
faintly fragrant. Open, boggy meadows on the eastern flank of 
the Tali Range. Lat. 25° 40’ N. Alt. 10,000-12,000 ft. August, 
1906. W. Yunnan, China. G. Forrest. No. 1,819. 
Erect plant of i-3 ft. Flowers rich crimson-lake, eye orange. 
In drying the colour changes to pale magenta. Moist and boggy 
situations at the north end of the Lichiang valley. Lat. 27° 10' N. 
Alt. 8,000-9,000 ft. May, 1906. N.W. Yunnan, China. G. Forrest. 
No. 2,120. 
ue Primula (Cankrienia) Bulleyana, G. Forrest. Sp. nov. 
ateS XXxXIXA, xlil. 
Folia papyracea ovato-lanceolata apice rotundata vel acuta, in 
petiolum breviter alatum attenuata 12-17 cm. longa 3-4 cm. lata 
argute et irregulariter dentata subtus leviter hispida supra glabra 
Scapus elatus validus 40-70 cm. altus versus apicem farinosus 
umbellas 5-7 superpositas 15-17-floras inter se post anthesin 8-11 
cm. distantes gerens; flos fragrans; bracteae lineares 1°5-3 cm. 
longae juveniles sparsim farinosze ; pedicelli validi mox cernui post 
anthesin erecti sparsim farinosi bracteas aequantes vel eisdem 
breviores.° Calyx campanulatus sub fructu poculiformis 4-5 mm. 
longus ad medium usque fissus lobis late triangularibus sursum 
subulatis extus pallide viridibus lineis albidis intersepalinis striatis 
intus farinosis Corollae tubus cylindricus sursum infundibuliformis 
fauce annulato; limbus 2 cm. diametiens lobis intense aurantiaco- 
luteis extus rubro-fuscis late obovatis fere rotundatis. Capsula 
ovoidea calycem paullo superans. 
