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be in our gardens this season. It is a magnificent plant, of strong 

 growth, producing many whorls of large dark yellow flowers. 

 Chinese Species of the Candelabra Section. 

 Purple flowers. Yellow flowers. 



P. Beesiana, G. Forrest (fig. 74) P. Bulky ana, G. Forrest (fig. 77) 

 P. glycosma, Petitm. P. Cockburniana, Hemsl. (fig. 78) 



P. mallophylla, Balf. fil. P. serratifolia, Franch. (fig. 79) 



P. Poissonii, Franch. (fig. 75) P. helodoxa, Balf. fil. 



P. fiulverulenta, Duthie (fig. 76) 

 P. Wilsoni, Dunn 



The claims of your Secretariat compel an even more cursory treat- 

 ment in what follows of the Primulas not coming under European 

 or Himalayan. I make four chapters : — Asiatic Species of Primula 

 neither Himalayan nor Chinese ; African Species of Primula ; Japanese 

 Species of Primula ; American Species of Primula. 



I begin with the 



" ASIATIC SPECIES OF PRIMULA NEITHER HIMALAYAN 

 NOR CHINESE." 



Some forty species, including microforms, come into the area 

 prescribed. They belong to nine sections, of which three are peculiar 

 to the area of the Caucasus and Armenia and the region immediately 

 eastwards — in fact that portion of Asia spoken of by Botanists as the 

 Orient is richest in forms. In it the Vernales develop coiour forms 

 absent from the section as it is found in Europe. The sections 

 Cortusoides, Nivalis, Farinosa, and Cuneifolia are those which 

 spread out into farther Asia. Sredinskya with yellow flowers and 

 Megaseaefolia with red flowers are endemic in the Caucasus. 

 Verticillata is South Arabian. 



The following list gives the species and their microforms. I have 

 not included synonymy, which is somewhat complex. 



Asiatic Species of Primula neither Chinese nor Himalayan. 



P. acaulis (Linn.) Hill. (Sect. Vernalis.) Armenia — to Europe. 

 Cult. 

 Microforms : — 



P. heterochrony, Stapf. North Persia. 

 P. Sibthorpii, Hoffmannsegg. Caucasus, Armenia, North 

 Persia — to Thessaly. Cult. 

 P. algida, Adam. (Sect. Auriculata.) Pontus, Caucasus — to Altai. 

 Cult. 



P. amoena, Bieb. (Sect. Vernalis.) Caucasus and Armenia. Cult. 

 Introd. 1831. 



P. Aucheri, Jaub. et Spach. (Sect. Verticillata.) Arabia. 



