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PRIMULA .STUARTII. 
gU ? ma subca P»tatum in fauce. Capmla (%. 3. 4. 5.) ovata, lsevis, straminea, intiis 
lucida, ealyce campanulato, parum aucto inclusa, maguitudine grani piperis, ad medium 
dehiscens in valvulas quinque subajquales, lanceolatas, acutas. Placenta globosa, 
foveolato-rugosula, pcdicellata. Semina (fig. 6.) copiosa, atra, leviter an«-ulata. 
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Observation. 
T his curious and elegant plant is the second species of East Indian Primroses with 
wborled flowers, which has come to my knowledge. A description and figure of one 
of these, P. prolifer a, Wall, was laid before the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, about eight 
years ago, and subsequently inserted in the 1:3th volume of their Researches. It differs 
in being perfectly smooth in all its parts, whereas ours is covered with many short, 
whitish, subdiaphanous hairs; its leaves are oblong, minutely dentate; ours obovate,* 
notched, and toothed, with broad triangular teeth. In that, I have only observed one 
erect scape to each root; in this there are always several, and frequently as many as 
eight spreading, or decumbent scapes, the upper part of which has rarely less than 
three, and often twice as many rounded verticils, each consisting of about a dozen of 
yellow,fragrant, pubescent,slightly spreading flowers; each supported by an involucrum 
of three, five, or eveu seven large, foliaceous, lanceolate, dentate, acuminate, villous 
bractes, which are liuear only during the infancy of the inflorescence. The calyx 
is rounded, subglobular at the base, and not tubular: the lobes of the corolla entire, and 
not crenulate, as in P. prelifer a. To P. vertidllata of Forskael, it seems to come 
nearer than to the species just mentioned ; but it differs chiefly in being villous, and 
destitute of all mealiness, and in the tube of the corol being much shorter. 
I discovered our plant in full flower and fruit in April 1825, among rocks, in cool, 
moist, and shady situations, near mountain streams or springs, in that part of Sirmoor 
which forms the delicious Deyra Doon, (the valley of Deyra;) which is elevated about 
2300 feet above the sea, according to the measurements of my excellent friend Captain 
Alexander Gerard; especially near Sansedarra, (or the Dripping-Cave,) and on the 
mountain called Karkaulee, which confines the valley to the northward, at an elevation 
of about 2500 to 3000 feet above the level of the latter. 
PRIMULA STUARTII, Wall. TAB. 34. 
Foliis oblongis, acutis, margine revolutis, integerrimis, vel pectinato-dentatis : den- 
tibus teretibus, parallels, approximate ; per petiolum decurrentibus, subtus umbelldque 
multi flora farinosis; scapo foliis longiore ; calyce ligulato, tubum sequante; fauce nudd, 
infundibuliformi; laciniis obovatis, retusis, integerrimis vel denticulatis. 
Primula Stuartii, Wall, apud lloxb. Flor. Ind. ii. page 20. 
Habitat in Ilimaleya, versus Gossain Than. Floret et fructus profert tempore plu- 
vioso. Etiam habui e montibus Kamaon, ubi legit It. Blinkworth. 
Nomen Parbutteum (generale hujus generis et A ndrosacearum) Nit ah a. 
Planta pedalis et ultra, radiee carnosd, coustante fibris rubicundis, longis, crassis, 
teretibus. Folia numerosa, erectiuscula, cum petiolis pollices octo ad decern emetientia, 
oblonga, vel lanceolato-oblonga, acuta, deorsum attenuataat sappius per petiolum decur- 
rentia, ad margines dum juniora revoluta, nunc integerrima (fig. B.) ; saepius vero pecti- 
nata dentibus creberrimis, parallelis,teretibus, brevibus; plana, subcarnosa,suprd pallida, 
subglaucescentia, subtus pedunculis, calycibusque utrinque, dense pulveruleutis farind 
flavicante, subsulphured; tenuitcr reticulata, costd promineute. Petioli folia longitudine 
aequantes, marginati, basi circumdati bracteis pluribus ovatis, acutis, membranaceis. 
Scapus ex singula radiee unicus, erectus, teres, foliis semel bisve longior, crassiusculus. 
XJmhella erecta, patens, subglobosa, duodecimflora ; raro ad centrum subcomposita. 
Involucri foliola lanceolata, acuta, uninervia, basi subconnata, tres lineas longa. Flores 
