Anlrosace, pentandria monogyniA. 15 



cl-d, patent; involuceh setaceous, shorter than the pedicels; calyx 

 equalling the ventricose tube of the corolla. 



" Numerous specimens of this charming species were Sent to me 

 by t'te Hon. E. Gardner and Mr. Robert Stuart from Gosaiu-Than 

 ii ..* pairt, under the name of Nita and Nitaha, which also is the 

 common appellation for all the species of Primula growing at that 

 interesting place. 



Rout consisting of a fascicle of whitish fibres producing one or 

 more dense tuffs of leaves, from the centre of which spring numer- 

 ous hollow, naked, cylindrical, slender, shining, more or less deep- 

 ly purple, entire, hairy stems, which strike root and produce offsets 

 at the distance of four or more inches. Besides these there are pro- 

 duced several long and very slender leafy runners. — Leaves an inch, 

 or an inch and a half long, sub-erect, acute, entire, tapering down- 

 wards, very hairy, becoming smoother as they advance in age, sur- 

 rounded and intermixed with numerous very small leaflets, covered 

 with dense wool ; those of the runners in remote verticils of threes 

 or fours. — Scapes six or eight inches long, erect, hairy. Umbels he- 

 mispherical, measuring about two inches in diameter, spreading. — 

 Involuceh slightly canaliculate, two or three times shorter than the 

 hairy, filiform pedicels, to the somewhat thickened 1 bases of which 

 they are attached. — Flowers small, rose-coloured. — Cali/x hairy, 

 ovate, slightly five-cornered, with obtuse segments. — Corolla smooth; 

 throat contracted, crowned with a prominent, annular, yellowish 

 swelling; segments of the spreading border oval, obtuse, scarcely 

 longer than the tube. — Anthers ovate, in the middle of the tube. — 

 Stigma truncate. — Capsule oblong, shining, smooth, brown, twice 

 as long as the persistent calyx, with five lanceolate recurved valves. 

 - — Receptacle globular, elevated on a pedicel. — Seeds numerous, 

 minute.— N. W. 



3. A. lanuginosa, Wall. 



Covered with milk-white, soft, long hairs; stem adscending; leaves 



