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Primula. pentandria. mokostniA. IT 



the same root, erect, elevated on filiform scapes above the leaves, 



hir-e, round, consisting of many flowers. Jnvoluce/s almost equaling 



the pedicel^ striated, cuneate, divided at the apex into two or three 



'. sharp lobes, rarejy lanceolate, undivided. Calyx twice as 



large as the corolla, uifundibuliform, hairy, consisting ol live large, 



eolate, veined, acute segments! Tube of the corolla ventricose, 



er than the limb ; throat pervious; laciuicc obcordate. — N. W„ 



5. A. cordifolia, Wall, in Asiat. Research, xiii. S?l. 



Villous ; leaves ovate-cordate, obtuse, sinuate; crenulate ; scapes 

 almost equalling the petioles; umbells five-flowered, with setaceous 

 iiivolucels ; calyx companulate, shorter than the corolla, enlarging 

 over the fruit. 



A native of forests in Nepala, blossoming in the beginning of the 

 year. JN 7 ewar name Boollee-Soa. — N. \V. 



PRIMULA. 



Calyx tubular, angular, five-toothed. Corolla hypocrateriform 

 with pervious throat, and n've-lobed limb. Stamina enclosed. 

 Stigma globose. Capsule oblong, one-ceiled, with ten teeth. 



1. P. denficulata, Smith. 



leaves minutely toothed, revolute, glutinous, somewhat hairy. 

 Umbel dense, many-flowered. Limb of the corolla flat, its lobes 

 cloven. Eiolic Botany ii. 109. t., 114* 



A native of the mountains bordering in Silhet and of Nepali, 

 from whence I have had innumerable specimens gathered in the 

 vicinity of Katwmanaa and at Gosain-Than, where the plant is 



' Tn Poirei's Snppl. to the. Encyclopedic Botnriqne the native place of this plant 

 is laid down at Chillongo on the cou^t of Afrku instead of " Cuitlong in Upper 

 Nepalo,' as ihe Exotic Botany lias it. The error has been copied in Roe ra. and 

 Sclmlt. .«>st. Veg. iv. p. 151, and not conected ut p. 78.}, although the proper 

 habitat is there mentioned — >»• \\. 



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