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PRIMULA preenitens. 
Chinese Primrose. 
— = ae 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Lystwacuim. Jussieu gen. 96. Div. I. 
Primutacem. Brown prod. 1. 427. ; 
PRIMULA. Unbella involucrata. Cor. hypocrateriformis; tubo cy- 
lindrico calyce longiore: fauce eglandulosA: limbo 5-fido: laciniis emar- 
ginatis. (Stam. limbi laciniis opposita. Brown). Stigma globosum. Caps, 
L-locularis, dentibus 10-dehiscens. Lehmann prim. monogr. 16. 
P. prenitens, (pubescens, umbellA nune bis prolifera :) calyce membranaceo, 
ovato, ventricoso, indefinité multifido; fceto capsul4, inflato-distento : 
corolle laciniis superné inciso-dentatis. 
Tota preter corallam plus minus pubescens. Folia petiolata, radicalia, 
ambientia, sparsa, lato-cordata, lobata lobis pluribus (92) rotundatis in- 
equaliter dentato-incisis, supra nudiuscula; petioli longiores lamind, pilost. 
Scapus (nunc plures) folia exsuperans, erectus, simplex v. proliferus, pilo- 
sus, rotundate angulosus. Umbella multiflora, laxa, pedunculis Jiliformibus 
pilosis, flore longioribus: involuc. duplo umbella brevius, Soliolis oblongis 
“inequalibus superné dentato-incisis, interioribus tot quot pedunculis. Flores 
lilacino-rubentes, diametrum sesquiunciale nunc excedentes, subtis carneo- 
pallentes. Cal. subvirescens, pilosiusculus, nervis parallelis indefinite pluri- 
mis alterné tenuioribus striatus, corolle tubum equans, primum ovato-ven- 
tricosus subanguloso-plicatus (plicis tot quot dentibus ), deinde cum incres- 
cente fructis catumescens, multifidus lobulis indefinitis acutis tot quot nervis 
alternis crassioribus, fundo lato planiusculo intruso. Core. limbus explanatus 
_ macula fulvd in disco, laciniis lato-cordatis, margine superiore dentatis. 
Stam. et pist. non licuit inspicere. Caps. (nondum bene maturatam vidimus ) 
crustacea, glabra, calyce vestita, oblato-ovata, valvulis 10 dentiformibus par- 
vulis apice dehiscens, pallido-fusca. : 
Drawn from a plant (we believe the only one in the 
country) which flowered last March in the collection of 
Mrs. Palmer, at Bromley in Kent. It had been brought by 
Captain Rawes from the gardens at Canton, where it pro- 
bably found its way from some far more northern quarter 
of the Chinese empire; none of this generic type having, 
we believe, been observed as native of the levels of so low 
a latitude. Samples in a dried state had been previously 
transmitted by Mr. Reeves, a gentleman in the employment 
of the East India Company at Canton. 
This very elegant species differs considerably in cha- 
racter from all which are known, but comes the nearest to 
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