Plate 7. 
FOETUNE’S PEIMEOSE. 
Primula Fortunii , 
This charming hardy or half-hardy herbaceous plant is evi¬ 
dently related to the Indian Primula erosa , with which it agrees 
in general features, as well as in its coarsely erose-dentate 
leaves, and its farinose stalks and calyces; but it differs in 
the absence of stellated hairs on the pedicels and calyx. It is 
also related to P. denticulata , but differs from that in some ob¬ 
vious particulars. 
The plant from which our illustration was taken in April last 
was grown by Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son, of the Wel¬ 
lington Road Kurserv, St. John’s Wood. A less developed 
specimen exhibited by them at one of the March meetings of 
the Royal Botanic Society was awarded a certificate in acknow¬ 
ledgment of its beauty. Its history seems obscure. 
This Primrose closely resembles P. denticulata in habit, but 
it is more vigorous in growth, producing taller flower-scapes, 
and very much larger flower-heads, which consist of a prodi¬ 
gious number of flowers. The leaves, which are nearly the 
same shape as those of the common Primrose, and like those of 
that species have a wrinkled or rugose veiny surface, are sharply 
cut at the edges into very coarse irregular teeth, which are 
Plate 7.—Primula Foetuxii : plant clwarf, stemless; leaves oblong-obovate, 
tapering to the base, coarsely eroso-dentate, rugose, strongly veined; scapes 
2-3 times as long as the leaves, supporting a dense umbel of pedicellate- 
flowers, the upper part as well as the pedicels and calyces farinose; outer 
involucral bracts short, ovate, inner ones twice as long, linear; calyx deeply 
5-lobed, with erect lanceolate segments, glandular at the edges; corolla-tuhe 
slender, twice as long as the calyx, somewhat mealy outside near the top; the 
limb flat, spreading, of 6-10 two-lobed or bifid segments. 
Primula Fortunii, of gardens. 
