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Primula No. 24 (F 300) was, in point of fact, the first of all our 
Primulas to be found. It was already out of flower when we 
descended from the Feng S'an Ling upon Wen Hsien on April 28, 
and Purdom had the happy idea to diverge up to the foot of a 
high-swaying little Staubbach of a water-spray that shot down 
over a great westerly-facing cliff to the left ; and there, all up 
the ledges, found this Primula growing in great wads and masses 
of the neatest little mealed rosettes, from all of which shot sturdy 
scapes of an inch or two, carrying such sturdy pedicels and calyces 
as to give good hope that the flowers will be sturdy and large 
to match. The umbel seems to carry four to six blooms in a 
wide head. As yet I cannot assign this almost unexamined 
but most distinct species to any particular group, unless it be 
that of P. sertulum. The buds on collected plants here have 
unfortunately gone " blind," but I hope seed will prosper, and 
a cool rather damp cliff-crevice ultimately reveal the species in 
the beauty I feel safe in foretelling from its neat massed habit 
and doughty little scape. 
Primula No. 25 (F 192) is almost certainly P. septemloba. I found 
it, in the very end of all things, on a cool loose-soiled bank 
at a cliff's foot, high up in the alps of Satanee, with scant willows 
growing about. Everything of it was gone to mush, except the 
sere, stiff scapes of 8 inches ; but the very numerous, crowded, 
erect pedicels of these suggested obviously the drooping flowers 
of P. septemloba, and amid the decayed leaves could be discerned 
the relics of acute lobing, such as you get in P. septemloba and 
P. alsophila, but not in the more gently-rounded divisions of the 
Polyneura group. The plant, however, had bad luck ; the 
collecting box was not prompt enough in recognizing its specific 
claims, and its large root-masses got mixed up with the frail 
crowns of P. No. 5, while the seven seeds which alone the 
exhausted capsules yielded were so carefully put away as never 
to be found again. It will no doubt turn up among the sendings 
of P. No. 5, but is, in itself, a much less important species, already 
known, and not pre-eminent, as it is closely rivalled by Cortusa 
Matthiolii, as delicate a thing and an older friend. 
Primula F 464 is almost certainly P. alsophila. 
Primula F 465 (Chiappa) is a doubtful woodlander, but is almost 
certainly P. No. 21. 
/P. Purdomi (17). 
Nivalis-M aximowiczii group / 
P. M aximowiczii (14). 
P. tangutica (18). 
P. Woodwardii (8). 
P. optata (10). 
P. No. 22. 
\ P. No. 16. 
(?) Davidi group — P. hylophila (1). 
Omphalo gramma group — P. No. 6 (P. Viola-grandis). 
