WrtmilU* PENTANBBIA MOKOGYNlA. 23 



I have had frequent supplies of specimens of this very distinct 

 Primrose from the vicinity of Katumanda and from Gosain-Than. 



-Root short, thick, ending abruptly, a; in P. adaulis (to which the 

 plant comes near) with copious long fibres. Leaves numerous, tuft- 

 ed, spreading on the ground, three inches long, sometimes acute 

 at the base, or apex, very slightly rugose, the margins unequally 

 notched and toothed, with subulate teeth ; smooth on both sides, of a 

 pale green above, whitish beneath, with almost parallel, and opposite, 

 sub transversal nerves. The younger leaves strongly crenate and 

 crisped. — Petioles slender, from three to six inches long, round, with 

 a deep furrow, and two sharp, membranaceous margins. — Peduncles 

 numerous, among the petioles, one or two inches long, naked, round- 

 ish, one-flowered, most slightly pubescent, each havino- a small 

 membranaceous ovate, acuminate bracteat its base. — Flowers large, 

 pale blue. — Calyx sub-infundibuliform, five-cornered, smooth, with 

 lanceolate, acuminate, slightly gland-ciliate laciiricc. — Tube cylindric, 

 twice the length of the calyx ; limb fiat, divided into five obovate, en- 

 tire, or slightly crenulate, rounded segments, sometimes terminating 

 with a short point; throat yellowish, open. — Anthers sub-sessile in 

 the middle of the tube. Stigma oblong. 



8. P. nana, Wall. 



Leaves oval, obtuse, rugose, smooth, sub sessile, with unequally 

 and sharply toothed, sub-laciniate, waved margins; umbel sub-sessile, 

 shorter than the leaves, with a few long-peduncled Jlowers \ tube 

 of the corolla long and slender. 



A native of Gosain-Than, growing with the preceding species 

 of which, perhaps, it is only a variety depending on a«e or soil. 



It rises scarcely two inches above the ground ; the tender parts 

 slightly mealy. Root as in the preceding. — Leaves scarcely more 

 than an inch long, sometimes sub cordate at the base, on very 

 short, broad petioles, slightly pubescent. — Scape very short, ter- 

 minated by three or four pubescent erect peduncles, an inch or an 



