23 ?entandria MONocYNiA. Primula. 



4. P. Stuartii^ Wall* 



Leaves lanceolate oblong, erect, acute, closely fringed with cylin- 

 dric, most numerous, unequal teeth, smooth and glaucous above, 

 densely covered underneath with yellowish meal, tapering downwards 

 inlo a broad membrane-margined petiole, equalling them in length ; 

 scape very long ; umbel many-flowered, erect, mealy, with lanceolate 

 involucels, shorter than the pedicels; calyx angular, with tongue- 

 shaped lacinia?, almost equalling the tube ; throat of the corolla in- 

 fundibuliform; lacinia, rounded entire or fringed with linear, teeth. 



.Native name Masoo Nit aha. 



A tall, stately plant, rising from a fleshy, thick, fibrous, pink-co- 

 loured root, and embraced while young by a great number of ovate, 

 acute, membranaceous, imbricated bractes, some of which aie per- 

 sistent, intermixed with the withered petioles. — Leaves, including 

 their petiols from eight to ten inches long, and one or two broad, 

 lanceolate, more or less oblong, the margins at first revolute, after- 

 wards flat, marked with parallel, small, linear-cylindric, sharp, unequal 

 teeth, the upper surface xery pale and smooth, the lower thickly 

 strewed with faiina, with the mid-rib elevated, and reticulated if held 

 towards the light. — Petioles very broad with large membranaceous 

 margins, especially toward the base ; smooth. — Scape strong, round, 

 erect, generally twice as long as the leaves, from one to two feet in 



height. Umbel erect, densely mealy on all its parts, consisting of 



about a dozen very large, fragrant, yellow flow.ers, the outermost of 

 which are slightly nodding. — Jnvolucels lanceolate, acuminate, one- 

 nerved, scarcely one-third the length of the peduncles, slightly con- 

 nate at their broad bases — Peduncles obscurely angular, an inch long. 

 ■ — Calyx five-keeled, infundibuliform, mealy on both sides, with ligu- 



* During the progress of this sheet through the press my lamented friend whose 

 jjame tue species is intended to torn nemorate lias been consigned to the grave t 

 In the death of Mr. RobeVt Stuart (sou of Sir James Stuart, Bart, of Allan- 

 bank) lately officiating as Resident at the court of Kumnanda, the Hon. Company 

 has lost a servant that stood deservedly fifeli in point of < haracter, attainments, and 

 every virtue Ilia* adorns humanity, and the Botanic Garden at. Calcutta one ot its 

 most zealous and liberal beuefactors.— N. W. 



