Part 110 - Kangchukka (Langte Chu): Notes on Primula specimens 3203, 3249, and Chundebi 3052

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SUMMARY:
The author clarifies the locality as Kangchukka in the Langte Chu (flowing to Langte), noting an earlier field note name of Tang Chu and adding Kangchukka on specimen 3249. Detailed observations compare Primula specimens (including P. tenella) from 3203, 3249, and Chundebi 3052, discussing size, leaf and scape differences, elevation (8000 ft for the latter), and their apparent merging.

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The name of this place is Kangchukka, really in the Langte Chu, flowing down to Langte. I have named it Tang Chu on field notes, but added Kangchukka on 3249, the primula.

No 3249. P. tenella. I have taken this to be P. tenuiloba when collected at the last camp 3203 flagellaris. If this one is the same, it is very much bigger, the leaves are not like those of a minutissima: nor is the flower which is as big as that of P. Roylei, sometimes bigger. No 3203, 3249 & the Chundebi 3052 flagellaris primula I called new, all seem to merge into one another, though the latter was collected at 8000 which seems to separate it from the others. And the size of leaf & scape too, seem to put this one away from 3203 flagellaris. It is a most beautiful primula.