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PRIMULA PETIOLARIS. 
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Ovarium ovato-pyramidatum, semiimmersum, nitidum, quadriloculare, polysporum : 
orula e placenta axili penduia; stylus brevis, persistens; stigma obtusum. Capsula 
(fig-4.) globosa, obsolete quadrangular is, magnitudiue cerasi, sufiulta calyce persistente, 
grandefacto, trnncato, convexo, subtus concavo ; quadriloeularis, quadrivalvis. Semina 
ovata, atra, lucida, ad medium usque vestita arillo coccineo, nitido, minutim lobato et 
verrncoso ; plerumquc duo ex singulo loculo, ope funiculorum brevium penduia. 
Frutex dum floribus et capsulis onustavald& elegans. Wall, loco citato. 
PRIMULA PETIOLARIS, Wall. TAB 81. 
Cespitosa, kevis, foliis ovalibus, utrinqiie rotundatis, repando dentatis, erispis ; 
petiolis gracilibus, nudis, elongatis; pedunculis radicalibus pluribus, uuilloris, petiolis 
brevioribus ; limbo coroll<e piano, laciniis dentatis. 
Primulapetiolaris, Wall, apud Roxb. Mor. Ind. II. 23. 
Primula Cushia , Iiamilt. Ulustr. J. E. Smith in literis. 
Legi frequenter super rupibus ad loca opaca, humida, fontana, Sbeopore aliorum- 
(jne montium. Ad orturn Baginattee tlumiiiis, Fr. Hamilton. R. Blinkwortb misit 
speeimina in Kamaon lecla. Floret a Februario ad Aprilem. 
Planta cespitosa, be vis, radice crassa, carnosa, snbtruncatii ut in Primula acauli 
cui planta nostra accedit, ndesceute, odore anisato; vadicuhs copiosis, densis, 
fibrillosis. Folia valde rmmerosa, terra? prostrata, tripollicaria, ovalia, utrinque 
obtusa, nunc apice basive acutiuscula, rugosula et venulosa, marginibus imequaliter 
sinuato-dentatis, erispis, dentibus acutis, subulatis, priecipue in junioribus plantis ; 
utrinque glabra, subtus pallida, lcre albicautia, nervis parallelis, suboppositis, transver- 
salibus. Petioli graciles, teretes, supra exarati sulco profundo, acuto, tri- ad sexpolli- 
cares. Peduncnli plures, radicales, erecti, uniflori, petiolis parum breviores, teretes, 
vix puberuli, ad basin bractea ovatS, membranaced, acuminate instruct!; raro duotresve 
basi uniti pedunculoque communi brevissinio suffulti. Flos magnus, pallide cceruleus, 
inodorus; rarissime dilute roseus. Calyx (fig. 1.) subinfundibuliformis, quinquangu- 
laris ; dentibus lanceolatis, acuminatis, leviter glanduloso-ciliatis. Corolla* (fig. 2.) tubus 
cylindricus, ealyeem bis superans; limbus initio parum infundibuliformis, denium 
planus, divisus in lacinias quinque patentissimas, obovatas, apice bi-tridentatas, vel 
crenulatas, tuburn longitudine a?qu antes ; faux luteola, pervia. Ant her a* versus medium 
tubi sessiles. Stigma oblongum. Wallich loco citato. 
Observation. 
I have somewhat modified the specific character, and have added a few points to 
the description, which was printed six years ago in Roxburgh’s Flora Indica, having 
since then had an opportunity of examining this handsome and rather common species 
in its native soil. I was assured that its Newar name rs Jhooe Soak; but in a letter 
from the illustrious President of the Linnaean Society, I am informed that my most worthy 
friend Dr. Hamilton sent specimens of the plant home, labelled Primula Cushia: a name 
which he no doubt derived from native sources, and which l should have adopted on the 
present occasion, in preference to mine, if any faith could be put on the correctness of 
the appellations, which the people of Nepal so bountifully, and that often at a moment s 
warning, bestow on the vegetable productions of their country ; and d it were not so 
very seldom, that any plant can be identified by means of them. 
PRIMULA ROTUNDIFOLIA, Wall. TAB. 32. (fig. sinistra.) 
Foliis rotundato-cordatis, gross£ dentatis, subtus umbell&que luteo-farinosis; 
tiolis gracilibus, longissimis ; involucro setaceo, pedunculis duuidio .breviore ; tubo 
rolla? longo, lac ini is ovatis crenulutis, fauce pervi&, leviter marginal! 
