Primula delavayi
Read about Primula delavayi in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Primula delavayi, Franch. Plant slightly soft white-hairy pubescent: lvs. long- petiolate, thin-papery, about 3 in. long and almost as broad, broadly ovate or suborbicular, the base more or less cordate, wavy-dentate or crenate: scape produced before the lvs., without bracts, 1-fld., densely pubescent, laxly enveloped up to the middle with fuscous, membranaceous, very broad scales: fls. bright purple; calyx broadly campanulate, deeply parted, with linear-lanceolate lobes about 1/2in. long which are entire or denticulate and acute or obtuse; corolla outside pilose, the funnel form tube broad, slightly constricted above the base, then gradually broadened, the throat sprinkled with hairs, with oblong-ovate incised lobes: caps. ovate-oblong, 3/4-1 in. long, 3/8in. thick. S.W. China. VIII. Bullatae. Lvs. strongly rugose or bullate, hairy or glandular, more or less coriaceous, little if any lobed, small (2-4 in.long): fls. pedicelled: China, Thibet.
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