SMItH-—NEW PRIMULACEAE. 53 
PDubernardianae, rhizomate valido lignoso foliis marcidis dense 
obsito. Folia petiolata 3.5-6 cm. longa ; lamina 6-8 mm, lata, 
anguste lanceolata vel oblanceolata in petiolum anguste alatum 
glanduloso-puberulum laminam subaequantem angustata, supra 
fere plana leviter albo-farinosa vel nunc breviter glanduloso- 
pubescens, subtus dense albo-farinosa, apice obtusa, margine 
subintegra vel paulo repanda. Scapus ad 2.5 cm. altus, saepe 
multo minor, leviter farinosus vel breviter glanduloso-pubescens 
umbellam 2-6-floram gerens; bracteae 6-8 mm. longae lanceo- 
latae vel suboblongae leviter farinosae atque pubescentes ; 
pedicelli ad 1.5 cm. longi subglabri vel nune pubescentes apicem 
versus farinosi. Calyx campanulatus cire. 6 mm. longus 
carnosulus albo-farinosus epilosus vel nunc breviter pubescens 
in lobos ovato-triangulares obtusos ad medium fissus. Corollae 
albae fauce luteo tubus 1 em. paulo superans e calyce longe 
exsertus extra primo dense farinosus ut lobi obcordati 7 mm. 
longi alte emarginati. Stamina in flore longistylo ad quartam 
partem tubi iter ice inserta, in flore brevistylo supra medium, 
antheris 2 mm. longis ab ore 2 mm. remotis. Ovarium 
globosum ; stylus in flore longistylo circ. 6 mm. longus, in 
brevistylo vix 1.5 mm. aequans; stigma parvum capitatum. 
F ructus deest. 
“S.E. ‘Tibet :—Salween-Kiuchiang divide, Tsarong. Lat. 
28° go! N. Cushion plant of 6-12 inches diameter. Flewers 
white with orange eye. On dry shady rocks and clifls. June 
1919. ” - G. Forrest. No, .28367, 
‘‘Salween-Kiuchiang divide, sarong. Lat. 28° yo’ N. 
Long. 98° 15’ BE. Cushion plant of 1 inch. One to two feet 
in diameter. Flowers white occasionally tinged rose, eye yellow. 
Dry situations on limestone cliffs. July 1919.’’ G. Forrest. 
No. 18896. 
P. tapeina presents a very distinct appearance from P. 
Dubernardiana, Forrest in its very compact habit and freedom 
of flowers. It differs moreover in the character and distribution 
of the meal, in shorter more fleshy calyx and in the white corolla 
long exserted from the calyx tu 
Primula Valentiniana, Hand.-Mzt. in Sonderabd. aus Anz. 
Akad. Wien, No. 26-27 (1922), Pp. 5. 
A beautiful dwarf species of the section Amethystinae 
collected by Dr. Handel-Mazzetti and published in 1922. It was 
alsa collected by Farrer and by Forrest. 
urma :—Chawchi Pass. Alt. 12-13,000 ft. <A little 
beauty, sheeting the flat fine lawns of the high alps in broad 
expanses of colour. Flowers intense pure crimson, paling to 
