ABYSSINIAN 

 PRIMEOSE. 



Prviiiilri veriicillata. 



HIS interestiiii);' plant reminds 

 one of the handsome Japan 

 primrose {Pn'm/ila Japotiica), 

 by the manner in which the 

 flowers are produced in a series 

 of whorls ; but the snowy- 

 primrose (P niniUs) has the 

 like habit, and some others 

 indicate that a very- slig-ht 

 change of conditions would in- 

 duce them to present' their 

 flowers in a sjiiral arrangement, 

 instead of a simjjle umbel. The 

 Abyssinian primrose was first 

 received in this country in the 

 year 1825, under the name of 

 P hivolucnda, and was first 

 figured in the Bntutikuil Miigazine in the year 1828, under 

 t. 28-12. In its original form it was a somewhat poor plant, 

 with small flowers borne on long pedicels amidst a profusion 

 of floral bracts and with conspicuous green calyces. Its 

 native country was the. Arabian province of Yemen, on the 

 margins of rivulets on Kurma, a calcareous mountain in 

 north latitude fourteen and a half degrees, that is, towards 



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