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the side of a lake and requires no attention. The drooping flowers 

 are disappointing because the petals are so narrow their yellow 

 colour is hardly seen. As a foliage cover the plant is useful and 

 demands a place in all collections. Said to have been introduced at 

 St. Petersburg in 1877. 



Asiatic Species (neither Himalayan nor Chinese) of the Sredinskya 



Section. 

 Yellow flowers. 

 P. grandis, Trautv. 



Section Megaseaefolia. 

 Why Pax places the Caucasian P. megaseaefolia, Boiss., in associa- 

 tion with the Chinese plants of the Carolinella section I do not 

 understand. It seems to me, in the state of our knowledge, as isolated 

 as is P. grandis, Trautv. Miss Willmott brought it to Britain in 

 1 90 1 and it is now a recognized favourite of the greenhouse and in 

 some districts is grown out of doors. At Edinburgh it lives and 

 produces a few flowers in the open, but is not happy. 



Asiatic Species (neither Himalayan nor Chinese) of the Megaseaefolia 



Section. 

 Rose-coloured flowers. 

 P. megaseaefolia, Boiss. (fig. 83) 



I have only to add the name of P. Fedtschenkoi, Regel, a Turkestan 

 species not in cultivation, which has a look of the Auriculata section, 

 but I cannot place it with certainty. 



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"AFRICAN SPECIES OF PRIMULA." 



The genus Primula appears in Africa only through P. simensis, 



Hochst., upon the mountains of Abyssinia. The plant is a microform 

 of P. verticillata, Forsk., of the opposite coast. 



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JAPANESE SPECIES OF PRIMULA. 



We have been so long accustomed to think of Japan as a country 

 whence Primulas come to us that it may be a surprise to many to learn 

 that there are only eleven species of Primula native in Japan. Eight 

 of them are endemic. Two of them show microforms sufficient to 

 warrant their receiving definite names. Including the microforms 

 there are fourteen distinct named Primulas in Japan. No one of the 



