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PRIMULA glaucescens.
Glaucescent-leaved Primrose.
Naturai Order. Primulace®. Brown prodr. 427.
PRIMULA. Supra fol. «.
P . glaucescens, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis
marginatis subtus glaucesceutibus, umbella pauciflora, calytibus
acuminato-dentatis. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 576. m4b. . ■
Primula glaucescens. MoreZZ. P . mtegnfolia. IPu/J. et P.taiy cin a .
Gaud, ex Spreng. syst. loc. cit.
Stem short. Leaves numerous, sessile, rigid, radiately
spreading, imbricate over each other, oblongly or broadly
lanceolate, acute, slightly undulate, or sometimes quite flat,
entire, with a cartilaginous or horny margin, that is slightly
erose, smooth and of a glossy green on the upper side;
underneath pale or glaucescent. Scape short m our plant,
about the length of or a little longer than the leaves smooth,
obsoletely angular, or sometimes flattened. Umhel in oui
plant fiviflowered. Involucre of 5 long, narrow linear
L u te bractes, that are nearly as long as the pedicles and
calyx together, in our plant. Pedicles shorter than the
calyx, smooth. Calyx tubular, deeply 5-cleft, tinged with
a reddish purple; the segments lanceolate, taper-pointed,
and keeled Corolla tubular, with a deeply 5-cleft, spreading
limb, of a bright purple : tube large, bluntly 5-angular,
about twice the length of the calyx: hmb much spreading,
the segments distinct, or slightly imbricate towards the
base, very broad, roundly obcordate, veined, unguiculate
at the base, and producing a gland hke protuberance between
the segments, the lobes bluntly rounded ; sometimes,
but rarely 3-lobed; slightly pubescent within the mouth.
Stamens 5, inserted in the tube. Ovarium smooth, striated
Style smooth, not exserted. Stiyma caiiitate.
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