. Transactions and proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. of the mountains north of theKatsena River, North Nigeria, approx. lat. 7° N., long. 10° in 1913 and flowered in the Royal BotanicGarden, Edinburgh, October 1915. The small flowers havethe sepals tinted a beautiful rose and are themselves in acompact subglobular spike not unlike that of certain Poly-gonums. The afiinity seems to be near B. Iecurvum, Lindl.(Bot, Reg. 963, under Tribrachia pendula) and near , Schltr. from the Cameroons. The speciflc nameis in honour of Miss Imogen Ramsay of Bamfl. The loc
. Transactions and proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. of the mountains north of theKatsena River, North Nigeria, approx. lat. 7° N., long. 10° in 1913 and flowered in the Royal BotanicGarden, Edinburgh, October 1915. The small flowers havethe sepals tinted a beautiful rose and are themselves in acompact subglobular spike not unlike that of certain Poly-gonums. The afiinity seems to be near B. Iecurvum, Lindl.(Bot, Reg. 963, under Tribrachia pendula) and near , Schltr. from the Cameroons. The speciflc nameis in honour of Miss Imogen Ramsay of Bamfl. The locality of Polystachya Hamiltonii, W. W. Sm.(Notes Edin., viii (1915), 347), which was statedsomewhat indefinitely at the time of the description, isapproximately lat. 7° 25 N., long. 8° 30 E., in the valley ofthe Benue River. This orchid has an inflorescence some-what more branched and certainly with more flowers thanindicated in the orio-inal diacfnosis. TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. VOLUME XXVII. Part EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY BY NEILL & CO., LIMITED. And to be obtained from the Secretary of the Society, at the Royal Botanic Garden. 1918. CONTENTS. PAQK Proceedings for Session 1917-1918 xi Some New Species of Primula which have Flowered Recently. By Professor Bayley Balfour, 231 Some Late Flowering Gentians. Ry Professor Bayley Balfour, 246 The Genus Nomocharis. By Professor Bayley Balfour, . 273 Notes on the Occurrence of Clathrus cancdlatus, Tournf., in Argyll-shire. By the Very Rev. Dr. David Paul. (Plate VI) . 301 Koeleria advena, Stapf, sp. nov. By James Fraser .... 302 TRANSACTIONS BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. SESSION LXXXIL Some New Species of Primula which have FloweredRecently. By Professor Bayley Balfour, (Read 13th December 1917.) The species described here are :— P. chrysopti, Balf. f. et Forrest. Yunnan. (Forrest.) F. Harroviana, Balf. f. et Cooper. B
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