Primula. i-entandria monogynijU l£>* 



A most charming species, a native, with the following species of 

 Gosain-Than. Name Sapha-Nitaka. 



Root consisting. of many slender reddish fibres, producing at the 

 top a number of small ovate bractes which surround the plant bud 

 as is the case in P. dentiatlata. — Leaves numerous, rising in an ob- 

 lique direction from the ground, almost orbicular, perfectly obtuse, 

 from one to two inches in diameter, with triangular sharp, somewhat 

 unequal teeth, sinus at the base entire, with smalt rounded lobes.; 

 smooth above, obscurely veined and reticulated ; densely covered -un- 

 derneath, with yellowish meal..- — Petioles four, five, or six times longer 

 than the leaves, chanelled, broad and membranaceous at their base, 

 smooth, except while young, when they are mealy. — Scape smooth, 

 round, about eight or ten inches long, hollow. — Umbel spreading, 

 round, very mealy, nearly three inches in diameter, with about twelve 

 large purple flowers. — Pedicels slightly pubescent, about six lines 

 long, bearing capsules twice that length. Involucels shorter than the 

 peduncles, persistent. — Calyx somewhat gibbous at the base, deeply 

 five-cleft; segments lanceolate, acute, mealy on both sides. — lube 

 of the corolla cylindric, .four times as long as the calyx, enlarging to- 

 wards the mouth, which is wide and marked with a yellowish mem- 

 branaceous elevated margin. Limb flat and spreading, consisting 

 of five obovate, somewhat retuse, indistinctly crenulate segments, 

 half the length of the tube. — Filaments inserted in the middle of the 

 tube ; anthers oblong. — Ovarium cylindric, smooth. Style fili- 

 form ; stigma sub-capitate below the mouth of the corolla Capsule 



smooth, brown, oblong, nearly twice as long as. .the calyx, opening 

 with from five to eight unequal teeth, which gradually separate into 

 as many recurved valves. — Placenta globular, pedieelled. 



1 bs. P. rotundifolia, Pallas, differs widely from this species and 

 h:is been ascertained to be the same as P. sibirica. Jacq. vid. Systi 

 Veg. iv, 143.— N. W. 



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