Smitu—NEw PRIMULACEAE. 37 
Mr Farrer has given the following note :—‘‘ The whole series 
on these alps represents not P. calliantha at all but the almost 
exactly similar but efarinose P. nuda which last year I only once 
saw and only in seed [No. 1052}. Here it abounds vastly on 
the heights sheeting the upper lawns in colour like the Arthritics 
of Europe. It varies like them too in tones of vinous amethyst 
or lavender, and, though the lobes are usually entire, specimens 
oceur in which they are erose-dentate.’ 
This at first sight looks very distinct but is not worthy of 
more than varietal rank. find in other specimens of 
P. calliantha a tendency to loss of farina. In the Farrerian 
specimen the dense base of fleshy scale leaves shows within 
copious farina, although the ordinary leaves, scape, bracts and 
calyx are quite efarinose. 
ot Primula Coryana, Balf. f. et Forrest mss. descr. W. W. Sm. 
Species nobilis sectionis Nivalis atque ex affinitate P. nivalis, 
Pallas sed ab ea specie ejusque varietatibus corollae forma 
facile recognoscitur ; quoad habitum atque pulchritudinem cum 
sf ee Balf. f. et Forrest comparanda. 
Planta 35-45 cm. alta farinosa epilosa foliis sub anthesi bene 
ae alabastri squamis plurimis 3-5 cm. longis 2 cm. latis 
in sicco tenuiter membranaceis cincta. Folia magna 20-36 cm. 
longa, 4-8 cm. lata, lanceolata vel oblanceolata, apice acutata 
nunc apiculata, hake in petiolum lamina breviorem ad 10 cm. 
longum 1-2 cm. latum pergamentaceum sensim angustata 
margine crebre atque subregulariter denticulata, dentibus 
hydathodo apiculatis, utrinque glabra, supra efarinosa vel fere 
nuda, infra farina albida vel pallido-sulphurea diu persistente 
undique induta, costa media lata rubida marginibus stramineis 
(in superficie inferiore conspicua) excepta. Scapus robustus 
supra dense farinosus umbellas 1-3 superpositas approximatas 
plerumque 4-o9-floras gerens; cigs ad 1.5 cm. longae 
lanceolato-acuminatae farina conspersae; pedicelli longiores 
2.5-3.5 cm. longi subreflexi dense farinosi. Flores majores a 
4 cm. longi et lati in sicco, roseo-lavendulacei vel roseo-purpurel. 
Calyx ad 2 em. longus tubuloso-campanulatus in lobos oblongos 
vel lanceolato-oblongos acutos ad.12 mm. longos ultra medium 
fissus extra sparsius, intra densius farinosus. Corollae magnae 
tubus infundibuliformis ad 2.3 cm. longus, parte inferiore 
tubulosa circ. 13 mm. longa, parte superiore late ampliata, 
glaber, extra farina conspersus, lobi ad I. 7 cm. longi, I.5 cm, 
lati obovati emarginati nunc margine erosi, ad os latissimum 
farina copiosa impletum vix annulatus. Stamina in flore 
_ longistylo ad medium tubi inferioris inserta, in nore brevistylo 
