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Plate 38]
PRIMULA 21
Sar, 13,500 ft. ; Gulmarg,
Haran in Willow
plantation (Coventry) Baltistan.
;
Distribution. Temperate Himalaya, from Afghanistan and
Kashmir to Yunnan, 7,000-13,500 ft., Khasia Hills, 5,000 ft.
level in open localities Damam
;
open margs, above 8,000 ft., very common
;
Fig. 6.
Primula elliptica, Boyle.
Not mealy. Leaves almost erect, thinly leathery, i-1 in.
long, glabrous, bluish-green beneath, round or oblong-round
or elliptic, sharply toothed, narrowed into a broad stalk which
is as long as or longer than the blade. Flowering stem much
longer than the leaves, 2-8 in. high, loosely 3- 10- flowered ;
bracts linear, blunt, base shortly produced ;
flower-stalks
J-| in. long, shorter than the bracts. Calyx hell-shaped,
J-i in. long, split to the middle, lobes triangular. Corolla
rose-coloured or mauvy-purple with orange eye, tube longer
than the calyx, lobes deeply notched. Capsule enclosed in the
calyx.
Flowers.
June, July.
Locality. Tosh Maidan to Damam Sar, 13,000 ft. ;
Khur
Mt., 13,500-13,800 ft. ;
Aporwat above Gulmarg, mossy, rocky
and damp ground, about 12,000 ft., not abundant Ladakh.
;
Distribution.
"W. Himalaya, 8,000-14,000 ft.
Pig. 7.
Primula sp.
Flowers very dark purple, paler centre.
Locality.
Thajwas.
Primula Clarkei, Watt.
Clarke's Primrose.
This plant has the habit of a Violet. Rootstock slender,
woody. Quito glabrous. Leaves 1-14 in. long, round or
round-heart-shaped, sharply toothed or crenate, tip rounded,
nerves very slender ;
stalk 2-4 in. long, very slender, base
narrowly sheathing. Flowering stalk ;
flower-stalks 2-5,
slender, as long as or shorter than the leaf-stalks. Calyx
broadly bell-shaped, i in. long, during flowering time about
y in. long, lobes broadly triangular, sharp-pointed. Corollatube
if in. long, slender, longer than the calyx, limb flat, lobes
rather narrow, notched. Capsule globose, enclosed in the
calyx.
Locality. Poosiana, 7,000 ft.
Distribution. Apparently endemic in Kashmir.