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corollae lobis valde elongatis integris, staminibus stylogue non 
vel vix calycis tubum superantibus inter alia signa bene 
conspicua. 
Planta sub ee. ad 6 cm. alta epilosa efarinosa basi squamis 
carnosulis 1-1.5 ecm. longis obsita radicibus  crassiusculis 
praedita. Folia sub anthesi haud bene evoluta petiolo alato 
laminam subaequante praedita; lamina cire. 1.5 cm. longa, vix 
t em. lata, late spathulata, apice rotundata, basi in petiolum 
sensim angustata, integra vel subintegra, carnosula atroviridis 
glabra. Seapi 1-4, oc a ee flores aequantes sub calyce 
sensim ampliati uniflori axillares glabri. Flores in sicco 3 cm. 
longi erecti glabri_ pallido-coeruleo-violacei. Calyx 8-9 mm. 
longus late tubulosus viridis textura tenuis glaber in lobos ovatos 
erectos apice rotundatos fere ad medium fissus. Corollae textura 
gracillimae tubus 11-12 mm. longus late cylindricus supra 
paululo dilatatus extra glaber, lobi 17-18 mm. longi oblanceolati 
medio § mm. lati apice rotundati integri; os exannulatus sed 
capillis longiusculis delicatis munitus ut tubus intus. Stamina 
in flore longistylo tantum 2 mm. a basi tubi corollini remota, 
in brevistylo calycis tubum paululo superantia, antheris circ. 
1.5 mm. longis. Stylus longus circ. 5 mm., brevis vix 3 mm. 
superans; stigma capitatum; ovarium globosum placenta ut 
videtur pulvinato-discoidea, seminibus immaturis multis. 
Fructus deest. 
_ ‘West China :—Yungning, N.W. Yunnan. Alt. 12-13,000 
ft. €Flowers pale bluish violet with no meal. Leaves glabrous 
with no meal. In open grassy meadows along the summit of 
the forested range. 25th April 1922.” F. K. Ward. No. 5088. 
A very peculiar species. The plant is dwarf but the flowers 
are Jarge and precocious. “There may be one to four scapes to 
each plantlet and the scapes are single-flowered and ebracteate. 
The habit in some ways recalls P. sonchifolia, Franch., but the 
structure of the flower is very different. The one-flowered 
ebracteate scapes lead mechanically to Omphalogramma but the 
calyx and corolla do not accord with that genus; there is, more- 
over, the want of any indumentum; the inside of the tube is 
lined with very fine but longish hairs but not forming a tuft 
in the throat as in the Bella section. It may be placed 
provisionally in the Petiolaris section. The placenta is broad 
and convex with the seeds lying upon it. This may point to 
it being an aberrant Petiolaris (cf. Balf. f. in Notes, R.B.G., 
Edin. IX. (1916) p. 175 sub P. hylophila.) 
og Primula ingens, W. W. Sm. et Forrest. 
: Ex affinitate P. russeolae, Balf. f. et Forrest et P. sinonivalis, 
_ Balf. f. et Forrest a quibus habitu multo elatiore, seapo pedi- 
