Ab SmitH— NEW PRIMULACEAE. 
(Kum Ja Bum) between Kenglungpu and Salangpa, in full Hower 
and character. Its beauty is remarkable and its flower-form so 
very unstable that it should develop widely in cultivation. The 
eve can be a solid ring of orange or a mere many-rayed corona. 
with a penumbra of pallor. Note too the far exserted style. 
Nowhere seen in the woods of the Upper Akhyang. April 1920.”’ 
R. Farrer. No: 1512. 
A very beautiful species not yet in cultivation. It has no 
afhnity with any Himalayan or Burmese species known to me 
but comes very near to the Szechwan P. Veitchiana, Petitm. as 
well as the eastern Yunnan plant described by Léveillé as 
P. pirolaefolia. Of this last I have ample material; of P. Veitch- 
iana only a scrap. But both are characterised by peculiar 
internal glandular areas in the bracts and calyx-lobes while the 
corollas of both are sprinkled with dark glandular dots. 
Microscopic examination confirms the glandular nature of these 
marks which are visible from without. PP. lacerata is devoid 
of these but its close relationship with the Chinese plants is 
undoubted. P. Vettchiana and P. pirolaefolia appear to me to 
the same species but unfortunately my material of the former 
is very limited. ‘These plants appear to be connected with the 
section Carolinella in which they are placed provisionally. 
They agree with one another in the laciniation of the corolla- 
lobes—not simply emarginate as in the typical members of that 
section. 
et es leucops, \W. W. Sm. et Ward. 
Ex affinitate P. aluntzuensis, Balf. f. et Forrest et P. sino- 
plantagineae, Balf. f{.; planta nana sectionis Nivalis; folits 
angustissimis, floribus pro planta magnis, corollae oculo magno 
albo bene notata. 
Planta dense caespitosa ad 6 cm. alta, in fructu nune vix 
acerescens, nunc paulo altior, pallido-luteo-farinosa. Folia 2-3 
em. longa, 3-5 mm. lata, petiolo vix discreto alato praedita, sub 
anthesin vix omnino evoluta; lamina lineari-lanceolata vel 
anguste lanceolata, acuta vel subacuminata, marginibus revolutis 
obscure crenato-denticulata, subtus farinosa. Scapus foltis 
duplo longior umbellam 2-5-floram gerens; bracteae 4-5 mm 
longae pedicellos plus minusve aequantes basi latae ipnootatae 
acutae vel acuminatae virides vel nunc purpurascentes leviter 
farinosae. Calyx circ. 8 mm. longus cylindricus atropurpureus 
tubus circ. 1 cm. longus supra calycem ampliatus, lobi subro- 
undati 1 cm. —— Te sina Stamina in flore brevistylo 
