Primulas Rediscovered – P. bullata & P. bracteata

In June-July, 2014 Pam Eveleigh, David & Stella Rankin and Jens Nielsen went to Yunnan, China with the hopes of rediscovering Primula bullata in its type location. Already, in 2012, Jens had located Primula bracteata in its type location and the images he took spurred the three of us...

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The Best Christmas Puzzle: Ludlow & Sherriff 1934 (Updated)

A Christmas tradition in my family is to put together a jigsaw puzzle, but I have been working on a “Primula puzzle” too. Using various documents including "A Quest of Flowers" by H.R. Fletcher, "The Gazetter of Ludlow and Sherriff Localities" by W.T. Stearn, field notes and diary entries,...

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Primula coelata – What’s Old is New Again

(Primula coelata grown by John Richards) In Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 155:t. 9266 (1932) Otto Stapf described and illustrated Primula dubernardiana. In that same article he described Primula coelata and Primula coelata stenophylla. The name P. coelata* was later regarded by other...

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Finding Primula vaginata

Front row, seated from left to right: D.E. Holland, Ugyen Wangchuck, John Claude White, Thutop Namgyel and his consort Yeshe Drolma. Type Location According to the protologue for Primula vaginata in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 20: 4. 1882 and repeated in Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 484 , the type is C.B....

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George Alexander Gammie

George Alexander Gammie (1864-1935) was an authority on Indian flora and specialized in Sikkim mosses (the genus Gammiella in the Sematophyllaceae is named for him). He worked as a deputy superintendent at the Cinchona plantations, Mungpoo and was able to put into practise a new method...

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