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PRIMULA SINENSIS. 
Splendid Chinese Primrose. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA— Nat. Ord. PRIMULACEJE. 
Gen. Chxvl.— 'Calyx quinquedentatus. Corollo hypocrateriformis, tubo cy- 
lindrico, ore nudo. Stigma globosum. Capsula unilocularis, decera- 
dentata. 
Primula sinensis ; foliis lobatis incisis hirsutis, floribus verticillatis, co- 
rollae limbo obliquo, calyce conico-inflato. 
P. sinensis, Sabine, MSS. 
u, Calyce quinquedentato, corollse limbo integerrimo. — Tab. 105. 
fi, Calyce subdecemdentato, corollis crenato-incisis. Primula sinensis, 
LiNDLEY, CoU. Bot. t. 7« 
Primula praenitens, Bot. Reg, t. 529- 
Root perennial. Leaves very soft, all of them radical, petiolated, hairy, di- 
vided into about seven, rather deep, ovate lobes, which are subtrifid, cut 
and bluntly serrated, of a rather dingy green colour, often purple be- 
neath, where the nerves are prominent. Petiole about two or three inches 
long, cylindrical, purple, grooved at the top, hairy. 
Scapes from four to six inches high, two or three of them arising from the same 
root, cylindrical, hairy, and each bearing two or three whorls of large, 
showy flowers, whose fragrance is very similar to that of the common 
primrose *, (P. acaulis J. Bracteas lanceolate, cut into long segments at 
the margin, one to each pedicel. Pedicels two or three inches long, 
slender, filiform, patent, hairy. 
Calyx conical, inflated, hairy, veined, in » having five distinct acute teeth, 
in /3 about ten unequal teeth, or being irregularly multidentate, hairy. 
Corolla an inch, or an inch and a half in diameter, hypocrateriform ; its 
tube subcylindrical, yellow, slightly hairy, the limb constantly oblique, 
divided into five large, closely placed, obcordate, pale purple segments, 
notched at the extremity, but otherwise being entire at the margin of «; 
while in ji, the margin of the segments is inciso-dentate ; the eye bright 
yellow. 
Stamens placed within the tube, sometimes near the mouth, sometimes half- 
way down. Filament white, short, scarcely indeed existing. Anthers 
oblong, yellow. Germen small, ovate, green. Style filiform, nearly as 
long as the calyx. Stigma capitate. 
* The same scent is observable, though in a fainter degree, upon the foliage. 
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