| − | Primula brevifolia, Forr. Glabrous and not farinose: lvs. paper-like, very broadly ovate-elliptic, serrate, attenuate into short winged petiole: scape slender, 4-8 in. high and much exceeding the lvs., bearing a 4-12-fld. unilateral somewhat drooping umbel: bracts small, broad-lanceolate, acute: fls. faintly fragrant, pedicellate, deep blue; calyx purplish green, with broad-lanceolate acute lobes; corolla broad-funnelform, the tube equaling or exceeding the calyx, the limb 1/3 to nearly 1/2in. across, lobes short and broad and emarginate. S. E. Thibet, altitude 14,500-16,000 ft. G.C. III. 57:207.
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