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confronting the huge Satanee Alps, it abounds on all the myriad 
little willowed hummocks and dimples of the fell, not only in the 
mossy banks but out upon the fine open turf itself in sheets. 
Above Gahoba it is sporadic on the higher ridge behind, and 
its last occurrence was in one big patch just below the crest of 
the Mo-Ping pass on the further side. It is a charming pretty 
thing, like a glossy dwarf and perfectly powderless P. farinosa, 
with the curious quality of throwing out a number of rooting 
stolons from the central crown, and so forming rapidly, 
where satisfied, into a thick, wide carpet. It blooms in early 
May, and is a lovely reminder of P. farinosa, in farinosa s 
pet situations, on the cool, grassy fringes of the woodlands 
and fell coppices about Gahoba. Seed was late and very 
scant ; my chief hope lies in dormant crowns despatched in 
December. 
Primula sp. nov. No. 5 (F 61) belongs to the Polyneura group, but is, 
I think, of special interest as bridging the gulf between this 
section and that of P. septemloba and is perhaps the same as 
No. 21. Unless I am wrong, P. septemloba lives in the cool 
upper woodland of the Satanee Alps, while across the intervening 
range abounds something very like P. lichiangensis on the 
warmer, drier slopes and boulder edges of Thundercrown. That 
intervening range, with the foothills opposite Satanee, is the 
home of Primula No. 5, a most lovely species, far superior in 
grace and charm (as I think) to P. Veilchii and P. lichiangensis, 
of which it has precisely the soft foliage and lush woodland habit 
(it is singularly small and frail in the crown) , but its beautiful big 
flowers of vinous rose are not flat stars but shallow saucers, 
and instead of being borne in stiffly upstaring umbels are carried 
loosely and gracefully in an almost pendulous and one-sided 
spray, in general effect recalling that notable wide-faced form of 
P. viscosa which yields P. X Farreriana to P. marginata on the 
Col de la Croix. (Occasionally, but very rarely, a second tier of 
blossom unfolds above the first.) Above Satanee, P. No. 5 occurs 
happily, though rather stunted, in the hot crevices of sunny 
primary rocks from which coppice has evidently been cleared ; 
but its real home is in deep cool places and mossy river-banks 
of the woodland, and it is particularly fine and lovely in the 
dense darkness of a little bamboo-brake in the forest zone of 
the Satanee Alps, growing in very rich clammy loam consisting 
almost wholly of decayed vegetation. Here it blooms in early 
May. October seed proved too scanty to distribute as yet, 
but I hope that dormant crowns may also help to increase the 
stock. * 
Primula Viola-grandis sp. nov. No. 6 (F74) is especially beautiful, 
important, and interesting. It is a very far northerly and most 
unexpected extension of the weird Omphalogramma group, with 
solitary flowers like gigantic monstrous violets or Pinguiculas 
